- Explore – After leap years explained and an animated history… – Very nice video explanation (about 6 minutes long)
- Your Soul Is in Your Eyeballs | Motherboard – This is awesome. You definitely want to look at the South Park cartoons used in this very scientific research.
- Third Point’s activist investor Daniel Loeb warns Yahoo a proxy fight is coming | VentureBeat – Ben Popper: “If there is one thing Loeb clearly brings to the table, it’s a word-of-the-day calendar (insouciance = casual lack of concern).”
- Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs) – YouTube- I’m not sure this is a particularly good use of bandwidth, but the noise is very soothing.Comment by @deconstructonator: For those interested, if you listen carefully you hear that this is not only the engine sound from Enterprise NCC-1701-D, but with the characteristic frequency variation you hear at the 24-28 Hz range, prior to the warp core repairs and subsequent antideuterium stabilizer upgrades after Stardate 45156.1. You can hear this distinctively at 6:33:34 and 14:12:44.
- PayPal Here: A direct — and triangular — competitor with Square (video) | VentureBeat – Today, eBay CEO accidentally referred to his triangular Square competitor as a “square.” #oops