- Top 10 open problems in physics (via Diax’s Rake).
- Convert an image into ASCII Art… (via GreenSmilies)
- When Sylvester finally catches Tweety or Tom catches Jerry… Warning, bloody cartoon images (via Gilly)
An alien on the lap!
Paging unsuspectingly through the latest issue of bild der wissenschaft (German popular science magazine), what did my eyes see in an article on astronomy history: Galileo has drawn an alien on the lap of a man (with face mask?) – on the moon! Don’t believe it? See yourself – on the left the original drawing (from Wikipedia)1, on the right with colors so you can see it more clearly:
Or what are you seeing?
( 
Yes, of course that’s only a joke! — See “pareidolia”.)
- the one on the lower left corner, rotated by 180° as in the bdw ↺
Links (and Videos) of the Week (2009/02)
(Videos are not embedded this time.)
- Icy days and nights – great (but also some kitschy) photos at The Big Picture.
- Revolutionary products from Apple: A notebook without keyboard and a tiny notebook with just one key (videos; via ad and TweakPC).
- Astrologie ist Unsinn! – Astrology is nonsense, German, already lots of comments.
- Quark stars as magnetars.
- Great hulahoop dancer (video; via Conny)
Links of the Week (2008/52)
- Das Fellmonster erklärt die Rätsel der Menschheit: Außerirdische entführen Menschen — was steckt wirklich dahinter und wie kam es dazu?
- Das Unwort-Jahrbuch 2008 – Bastis “unseriöse, unerhört unpolitische Ungereimtheiten” = Blog-Beiträge des Jahres in einem PDF
- Great photos from the Space Shuttle Endeavour
- 20 professional fonts – for free (via a blog about nothing)
Links of the Week (2008/50)
Only two this time, and both German:
- Die Mondlandungslüge – oder warum es eben keine ist; Florians Übersichtsartikel aus dem Skeptiker. (Natürlich schon mit vielen Kommentaren…)
- “Die übliche Diskussion” über den Glauben bei sapere aude