Sunday Links

• Tiny Spiny Turtle Update! - ZooBorns
• BBC News - Ocean trench info graphic How low can you go?
• A man and his machines The secret of the chess playing mechanical Turk, recreated
• Things can only get worse Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. on the constant decline of civilization
• Ada Lovelace– The Origin
• RIP Gregg Jevin: Imaginary Death Of Imaginary Comic The legend that was Gregg Jevin (and look whose tweet got featured :-) )
• A mile or two off Yarmouth Adam Curtis traces a link from post-war British cinema, to the cosmological theories of Fred Hoyle, to the nature of economic cycles
• When ideas have sex TED talk
• L.E.D. Snowboarder
• Snow Circles
• Japanese Fart Scrolls Even the Samurai enjoyed a good fart joke
• The mystery of the chord at the start of "A Hard Day's Night" Solved with Fourier analysis
• A simple, smiley face business card inspires art