Cool Stuff

I have no idea how it’s Friday again already. I’ve spent the past week in the Book-Finishing Time Vortex. Everything was so spinny and colorful…

• Puppies vs. Mirrors. (Link from Andrea)
• Elephant and dog best friends.
• Animals stealing food.
• Pallas’s Cat Pics!

• Industrial Flying Machines Made From Cardboard, by Daniel Agdag. (Link from Terry Hickman)
• Worrisome Uses of Quotation Marks.
• Man at Arms: Reforged builds a Lightsaber Katana. I was fascinated by the entire video, but my favorite part was the Stormtrooper at the end.
• LEGO Baby Groot and LEGO Rocket Raccoon Sketch.

Friday is Groot.

• “Van Damme? Never heard of her.” Animated gif of a badass little girl doing one of Van Damme’s signature moves. (Link from Martin Seeger)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer – in LEGO. (Link from the Mary Sue)
• Sesame Street’s NumericCon preview gives us William Shatner, Doctor Who & Daleks, “The Dark Nine,” and more as muppets.
• THIS CAT HAS THE EYES OF SAURON! (Link from Cleolinda)

Friday made the Kessel Run in ten parsecs!

• Statue/sculpture art and cleverness. (Link via Jaime Lee Moyer)
• The Mary Sue brings us a “Day of the Doctor” recap, in LEGO.
• Children reading to shelter cats. I love pretty much everything about this idea.
• The 30 Best Dr. Seuss Mash-ups on the Net.

Do you want to build a Friday?

• “Clouds are Weird, Yo.”
• Homer’s The Odyssey, in LEGO. Wow…
• Photos from an elephant orphanage.
• GoogleX is working on a contact lens that would monitor blood sugar levels. Yes, please!
• That time the Curiosity Rover took a selfie.

Greetings from Detcon1! Have some links!

• Shakespearean Insults, with Cats! Though if I never have to see or hear another fat joke/insult, I’ll be a happy man.
• Rare and Unusual Patronuses, by AliciaMB. (Link from the Mary Sue)
• Scenes from The Princess Bride, recreated in LEGO.
• JL8, by Yale Stewart. I discovered this comic of 8-year-old DC superheroes a few weeks back, and it makes me happy.

Curious how many people will click on the spider link today…

• LEGO Boba Fett cosplay. (Link via the Mary Sue)
• Duct tape prom dresses & tuxes. (Link from Claire)
• The Search for Love, as told by cats in boxes.
• Spiders being goofy and/or cute. I know, I know. Spiders! But they really are cute. (Link from Seanan McGuire)

When this goes live, it should already be Cool Stuff Saturday in Australia…

• Animal photobombs. (I don’t think I’ve shared this one before, but I’m not sure.)
• Slideshow of animals being jerks.
• Naughty cats.
• Time-lapse video of an exploding star.
• LEGO Imperial Star Destroyer. Two meters long, weighing roughly 50 kilos. Wow…

It was a dark and stormy Friday. Suddenly an otter rang out!

• Rock climbing … with a cat. (Link from Diane Duane)
• Otters playing a keyboard.
• NASA’s Flickr page for the Camelopardalids Meteor Shower.
• Out of Context D&D Quotes. As an old-school D&D player, reading these brought back such memories 🙂
• Kittens dressed as SFF characters. (Link from Mary Robinette Kowal)

It is Friday! Or as I like to call it, the day-before-my-wife-and-I-go-out-to-see-Xmen.

• Animals getting baths. Monkey and rabbit are my favorites! (Link from Elizabeth Bear)
• Put You In A Better Mood. Lots and lots of pictures and gifs to do … well, exactly what it says.
• Animals who forgot they were animals.
• Educational pancakes. Mm … education.