Archive for the Links of Interest Category
This morning I discovered a website that I think I’ll be using a lot more. It’s called, oddly enough, rememberthemilk.com
This is a site that provides all kinds of online tools for a person to organize his/her to-do lists. I think it will come in very handy.
Note: I may soon be getting rid of the Asides/Notes From All Over feature in the side panel and replacing it with some kind of weekly “links of interest” post. Just something I’m thinking about …
- A robotic exoskeleton (made by Sarcos, a Utah company) gives human beings much greater strength and endurance - according to the video, enough strength for an individual to load a missile onto an airplane (interesting example choice)
- GDrive - a Google online data storage service, may be on its way
- Scientists create a cancer-resistant mouse that can pass the same cancer-resistant characteristic along to its offspring
- There are indications of change … does it mean spammers are giving up?
- Young chimps test better than adult humans in a memory test.
Politics / World News
- Five Reasons to Be Grateful This Holiday Season [hat tip to Amira at Golden Road to Samarqand]
- In some parts of the Middle East, you can get jail time (and/or lashes with a whip) for being raped or for allowing school children to name a teddy bear Muhammad
LDS/Mormon
- Temple plan announced for El Salvador
- The Wonder of A New Religious Art Tradition by Richard Oman at Times and Seasons
- Mormon Soprano - a blog about what it’s like to sing in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- The Dooce challenges BYU servers on a page of posters designed to promote modesty
Scripture Study
- Bible Maps - [thanks to Ben Spackman for bringing this to my attention]
- Judas Iscariot is bad again - [hat tip to Times and Seasons Notes From All Over]
Art
- Drawn! blogs about the Wacom Cintiq 12WX LCD Sketchbook
Strange and/or Humorous
- The artistic and melancholy demise of three chocolate bunnies, with appropriate musical accompaniment (a YouTube video)
- Pencil Bench
- Uranium ore for sale at Amazon - the comments/reviews are a fun read (hat tip to Tingilinde)
Most Tantalizing Cinema Rumor of All Time
Some site is saying it has information that Peter Jackson will be shooting two installments of the Hobbit in 3D but another site says they have confirmed the rumor isn’t true