Sunday Links

• Nan Madol Ruins Supposedly the inspiration for H.P.Lovecraft's dead city of R'lyeh. Spooky.
• Calder Mercury Fountain Beautiful and dangerous
• Galileo's Instruments of Discovery With these humble tools, Galileo changed the world
• ZooBorns: Romping Snow Leopard Kittens Awwww!
• 30 Real Animals with Science Fiction Names
• Translation Party Just feed it a sentence in English and watch it be translated into Japanese and back until it reaches equilibrim. Strangely compelling.
• Tales of the Here and Now Free graphic novel downloads for iPhone, Android and DSi
• Songs in code Popular hits for programmers
• Portwiture An excellent Twitter mashup that returns pictures based on recent keywords
• Twittervision Random tweets from around the world displayed on a map
• The Shakespearean Heroes Science Fiction Should Steal From A call for SF authors to brush up their Shakespeare
• The best and worst uses of Kind of Blue in the movies Jazz ... nice, or is it? Miles Davis seminal album has been used in some excellent film and tv soundtracks, and others that are not so ... great.
• Ten things we don't understand about humans
• Simpsons Top Trumps: Skeptics Edition The top fifty skeptics rated on everything from number of Twitter followers to Arch Nemesis. I love Prof Brian Cox's Special Power.
• Splitter An excellent physics puzzle game based around the idea of cutting the scenery