Today's Mighty Oak


Alright, back again, let’s see what we have right now:

First up, the short list for the first-annual Information is Beautiful awards have been announced.

The title says worst puns ever, I say best.

Please, please, please learn to kern:

Um, a python that was caught in Florida was 17 feet.  Well I know what I’ll be having nightmares about now.

Also in animal news, Aphids may have evolved to use photosynthesis.  Pretty amazing!

It’s long, but worth it, the Lego story:

Famous CD covers recreated via the medium of…socks.

That’s it for now, have a great one!



Another fun update for everyone, hope you enjoy!

Amazing XKCD wedding cake:

XKCD web comic wedding cake 

And some other cook cakes from Nerdist.

I’m not sure if this is somehow connected to the book about the Subway system, but there is an indy documentary about the font “Helvetica.”  I need to find a way to see this!

Lifehacker has a good article about how to protect you stuff.  I especially like the idea of setting up a fake porn folder with your contact and reward information on a flash drive.  Genius!  And here is their article about free apps, check it out.

This is scary, there are squid that can jump out of the water.

Hardcore Gaming, which is a strangely very static, web 1.0 type of site, ran an article a while back about Myst.  Check it out if you’re interested, and haven’t heard enough about it from me before.

Here’s a cool video about what if Mozilla made a cell phone:

Need to mix up your board games?  This book will help.

Here’s the projected timeline of the death of newspapers around the world.  We’ll see how this plays out.

And finally, a week without Facebook?  MSNBC tries it out.

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