Have been running through and sorting out some of the extra crap that seems to accumulate in my favourites folder, including the "blog this" folder, so here are a few random neat things found by trolling about the internet.
Okay, first off a really cool idea by some people out in Miami. Anyone who's been around me when my little sis is visiting has probably heard my vehement protests about non-cremation and the oddity that is a graveyard. But what about becoming a living reef? These people take cremated ashes, mix it into a concrete mix which you can have cast into anything you want, and then sink you into a man-made reef in the middle of the ocean. Now THAT is a cool way to be immortalized in stone. A little vis of the reef is here
This one I totally blame on Tiff, she told me about this. Aparently this is pretty much required learning for all starbucks employees. Ladies and Gents, introducing Will It Blend. A website of bored scientist putting pretty much anything they can think up in a blender to see what will happen
This one was for Beej: DNA Stuff. Jewellry and tack and loads of other useless stuff I have no doubt Beej will demand for her birthday. Either that of a set of these plushies
Another was an oline project with a goal to convert the first 10,000 digits of Pi into a musical sequence. The site is here and I happily geeked out for a bit listening to the strange notes spooling out of my computer.
The next, again a really amusing and REALLY geeky link: Dance your PHD. No, really. Some of the videos are pure, comic GOLD. I love nerds.
This one is an Eddie Izzard sketch done entirely in Leggo. Why you say? Because Leggo is awesome and fans have far too much free time and access to recording technology on their hands. Way too much.
And finally, just for my amusement as this is kinda dorky, a stop motion paper fight. No, really, it's actually really good.