Sunday links

Videos and Pictures

• The Periodic Table of Videos is an excellent project by the University of Nottingham to create a short film about each one of the elements showing its properties. Make sure you check out Sodium - this is what science education should be like!
• Talking of education, Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes is an entertaining and informative talk by Dan Dennett
• Birds of a feather really do flock together
• Delia Derbyshire was a true pioneer of electronic music - check out a recently discovered recording of an early dance track that was decades ahead of its time
• Target Earth - a National Geographic photo essay on meteor impacts
• Wonders of the post industrial world including Fridge Henge

Neat Stuff

• Playhouses for cats
• Free comix including Cthulhu Tales and Ninja Tales
• Time travel posters - I particularly like the one for Feudal Japan
• View your flickr photos in a nifty Castle Wolfenstein mashup in Wolfenflickr

Batman Special

• Where does he get those wonderful toys?
• Why Batman could exist - but not for long
• Batman writes the theme tune, sings the theme tune

Games

• I like browser games. Bite Fight is an ongoing war between Werewolves and Vampires in a similar vein (ho, ho, I am satirical to Ikariam, Duels, et al. Go hunting, earn gold and blood, level up your skills and build up your stronghold. Fangtastic.
• Defender of the Favicon - an actual playable game of Defender in a browser bar favicon. Amazing.
• Splashback - burst droplets by creating chain reactions. Addictive
• Wipe out the world by evolving a deadly disease in Pandemic II. Top tip, watch the tutorial, play in full screen mode and concentrate on spreading your disease by different transmission vectors and resistances before evolving all of the really nasty and fatal symptoms. My best result so far was Fatal Lethal Infectious Death Syndrome that killed everybody with a combination of liver failure, haemorrhagic fever and encephalitis apart from Australia, New Zealand and Greenland who closed their borders and developed a vaccine. There's nothing quite like seeing the message 'North America is devoid of life'. Catchy.