- Phantastic photos from the LHC (via Bad Astronomy)
- Not the end of the world: LHC is safe! (German)
- Atheist sees nothing on a piece of toast!
- What is a good righteous person? And how about Jesus? (via Friendly Atheist)
- 54 Outrageous Ads Perfectly Put In Scene! (part 3), the other parts are interesting too.
Links of the Week (2008/30)
- German interview with Prof. Edzard Ernst: “Homöopathica are placebos”
- German: EsoBlog about a combination of mystic wishing, feng shui and homeopathy.
- Funny videos: Animator vs. Animation I and II (via aptgetupdate)
- And another video: A conference of fonts (by CollegeHumor; via Nerdcore)
Videos of the Week (2008/29)
Outsourcings from today’s “Links of the Week”, if you will – I don’t plan a regular category like this.
First, we got a cute letter opener:
(via Sebastian Schuster via Blogmachine)
Then there’s just about the coolest thing that Phil Plait has ever seen, as he says: The transit of the Moon in front of the Earth, taken by the EPOXI probe (you get other video formats there, too) from a distance of 50 million kilometers (31 million miles):
Links of the Week (2008/28)
- German: Der Wissenschaft verpflichtet (Committed to science) – Speech at the German society for internal medicine’s congress in 1997 about scientific medicine and paramedicine. Worth reading if you speak German, but the background color should be forbidden1… (via EsoBlog).
- PZ Myers about the questionable reactions on “holding a consecrated wafer hostage” – and reactions from readers.
- 50 remarkable nature wallpapers (via Blogwiese)
- or changed, be it with Firebug or by copying the text into an editor [↩]
Links of the Week (2008/26)
- Wissenschaft for the win (1): Naturalismus, die wissenschaftliche Methode und ihre Gegner (yep, German)
- The Swedish Furniture Name Generator – enter your name and get a name for Swedish furniture (including image); for my nick, the result is SIMDDDDUC or SIMDDDDYC or SIMMDDDDUC (seems to depend on whether you correct something and switch between windows?) or ÄNTRES for Andreas (via Alter Falter)
- German quotes and aphorisms about religion, church and moral (via sapere aude)