I’m leaving my day job to work on phOLO. This will probably be the last links post for a while. Yes, cry, all of you. Good news is that this may mean more interesting posts soon…

• If you’re a user of StumbleUpon, you’ve probably seen most of these photos before. Still this set of photos taken at the right time are worth a look.
• mess with this particle generator for a bit to really get what’s going on. It’s pretty cool. Try setting up a fan or two an then dropping a lot of fighters in.
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  Is it Christmas?
• unintelligencer
• Five most badass presidents of all time
• Lance made a photoshop action to turn pictures into polaroids.
• Stuff white people like
• Windmill destroys itsself. Don Quixote takes up knitting.
• How to get people out of popular landmark photos.
• Mont Saint Michel
• Retrofit an images histogram. (Thanks again, Lance!)
• Irises
• free, online image resizer

• “Uh oh,” says body-dumping mobsters.
• capture normal and displacement maps from real 3D surfaces
• GrandPerspective — a great way to keep track of where your disk space is going. (Mac only, nerdlinger!)
• Tic-tac-toe in stocking squares.
• If you’re into kittens and birds, this will be adorable to you.
• You’re kidding me. No way does this (castle?) exist.
• This is so fun. Start clicking around. Pelt the hell out of physics!
• The Viaduct
• Wish I was there
• What happens when a salt mine located under a lake springs a leak
• Vinyl portraits
• Arrow of time
• high-res space image
• “Weired” sculptures
• 101 odd laws
• Several evolution-based hypotheses as to the origins of various emotions

• Turn your picture into a magazine cover

Brief bkgnd: AOL had some of it’s search data leaked to the net. This site has it and you can see searches performed from some computers. I am most entertained by the searches on one computer that are obviously coming from a husband and wife with conflicting goals and motivations.

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  A mother-in-law and a son-in-law share a computer. Occasionally the daughter (MILs daughter, SILs wife) does a search.
• This woman really didn’t like the naked pictures a car salesman showed her.
• The girl is concerned about their relationship. The guy wants forced lactation and beastiality videos. I like the 9 in the morning cock binge topped off with “getting rid of cellulite”
• insane racist, but what race is he?
• woman considering an abortion
• girl loses virginity, freaks out about being pregnant, gets her period about a month late, goes right back to the unprotected sex… with an inmate of rikers island?
• Who is searching on how to get pregnant and who is all about the Trojans?
• A fool and their money

• A beautiful QT3D church interior
• “Risk loving” as defined by Wikipedia
• If this film about a Japanese girl and her dog doesn’t make you cry, you’ve got a heart of got-dam granite!
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  The Story of Stuff: You will want to cry again, but for entirely different reasons.
• collision avoidance simulation
• Bathing in moonlight
• four seasons in one image
• LED lit, etched glass door.
• Every frame of this squirrel eating a peanut is adorable!
• Neat-o satelite photos
• Handy tool: Vector magic!
• Cool trick for Google Images
• Make any photo look like it was made by Matt Mahurin

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  I thought building a laser workshop was difficult. This mountaintop monastery must have been ridiculous!
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  This ambiguously spinning silhouette BLOWS MY MIND
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  A fun animated life simulation
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  Vacation spot for those undergoing airplane phobia exposure therapy.
• Clouds creeping over sharp mountains
• Funny Signs
• free captcha
• The firewinder: uses wind to make a spiral of lights. Looks like a good gift.
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  Vacation spot 235: Hanauma Bay
• Archive of cool 3D scenes.
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  A pretty badassy regular expression to check for prime numbers. Not that I’ve taken the time to verify its accuracy…

• “Don’t taze me, bro!” with a Monty Python twist!
• This anywhere.fm player looks pretty awesome
• The food families eat in a week.
• I may have linked to this awesome algorithmic art page before, but fuck, it deserves two links.
• Docking simulator
• Burning man from the top
• Awesome timeline of evolution
• Tree illusion
• God found out!
• I want the airzooka or the megazooka! I want a lot of them! I want airzooka warfare! More airzooka!
• Yay!

• Dubai friggin’ explods in 14 years!
• I don’t know what this helix fucking thing is, but it looks cool.
• Purty
• Seeing this makes me feel better about my domain-buying binges. It’s all about the benjees, baby.
• Pretty awesome picture-zoomy thing.
• Poor man’s 3D. Everyman’s nauseator.
• Yet another place I’d like to go.
• A real anaconda? It was my understanding that they didn’t want none unless you got buns, hun.
• Classic con.
• List of countries by beer consumption per capita.
• Nevermind? Nevermind?
• This is probably one tenth of one percent of all shipped items on that day.
• Manhattan post global-warming.
• A lightweight javascript window. This link is more for me (so I can remember it) than for you. This will happen every once in a hoo.
• Another one: web APIs.

• The perfect storm of things I hate
• Parents, seriously, control your kids. The other day I was in a restaurant when a kid suddenly fell of his chair under the table. Fine. Accidents happen. Now take your kid outside so he can get his crying done with. Nope. Not what happened. No, the whole restaurant was treated to the aftermath.
• More from that Google street-view thing. This would be the time at the corner of Haight-Ashbury.
• Dudes. Yellowstone is so on my list.
• One more reason Canada is cool: Flowerpot Island. Question: is that one flowerpot artificially reinforced at the bottom? Those rocks don’t look quite right.
• Anachronostic portrait-splicing = heebies + jeebies.
• I’m not usually a fan of these things and I’m also not a fan of saying things like “that makes me happy” because hippies say things like that, but it made me happy.
• The Neitzche Family Circus: (one) (two).
• Yo, I’m feelin’ that crazy miss on Camp Loyaltown.

• nature made red the sexiest color around
• Old School trivia. Looking forward to Old School Dos.

• Pix3l 4r+!

• I want to be here. The only sign of humanity will be the blurry bridge of my nose.
• It is a fate foretold in Idiocracy.
• Richard Parker was named after an Edgar Allan Poe character from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838). The book tells of four shipwrecked men who, after many days’ privation, drew lots to decide who should be killed and eaten. The cabin boy, named Richard Parker, draws the short straw and is eaten. Tales of cannibalism by shipwrecked sailors were not uncommon in the 19th century, but oddly enough, 46 years after Poe’s story was published, the very events Poe wrote about would happen in reality. Captain Dudley and three sailors were stranded in a skiff in the Pacific after the sinking of their yacht Mignonette on the way to Australia. They are forced to eat one of the party to survive, and feast on his body for 4 days — a sailor boy named Richard Parker.
• Real Life Richard Parkers swim straight into your terror nook!

• Stalin for the three!

• -hopes -dreams
• America in the 40’s. A simpler time.

• If you could just listen to NPR’s spot on worst bosses, that’d be great. M’kay? Thanks. Oh, and I’ll see that you get a copy of that memo.
• Lions v. buffalo v. crocadiles v. baby Jesus’ tears
• A lion peers into its own deepening pit of regret.
• My jar of *CASHEWS* has a small-point-type warning on the back: “Contains cashews.” It also tells me that it is a product of India and/or Vietnam. This prompted a search on “stupid lawsuits” which yielded this page.
• lightning
• photoillusions