Mad Quickies 8.31

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m at Dragon*Con and I need to go find Len Peralta. I hear he’s rockin’ this Con Gangnam Style.

• Animals with misleading names and Bird sound mnemonics are two gems by field naturalist Rosemary Mosco at Bird and Moon.
• Woe Is Oz is an episodic comic series by friend-of-the-Lab Ethan Tarshish and Kelly Brown. Let’s kickstart this, yo!
• Microsonic Landscapes by Realität are 3-D visualizations of their favorite music. Neubauten!
• Neil Armstrong and Futures Past by John Scalzi.
• Ever wonder what’s inside Adam Savage’s toolbox? {via Steve D.}
• Looks like SparKleCorN is up to something. {via Anne S.}
• The Harvard law library has digitized 500+ English crime broadsides and put them online. Here’s the collection. {via Maggie}

Jump for more!

• This will bake your noodle: at the Venice Biennale, the Russian Pavilion’s top floor is covered in QR codes.
• Take a book, share a book. Little free libraries. {via Maria}
• Science and tech writers are asked What did you want to accomplish when you grew up?
• Shades of Cy Twombly! Whirling Dervish Penmanship.
• Design Nerds: 8 free fonts. Some lovely faces here. Throw the designers a few shekels, mmmkay?
• Introducing: Pinstagram.
• Who should be in the Robot Hall of Fame?

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From The Last Starfighter

“We die.”

Lord Kril… keepin’ it classy.

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Cooking Simulator

From the Tokyo Institute of Technology

Found at Nerdalicious.

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Featured image is an excerpt from Woe Is Oz.

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Click Pusheen!