- Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic - when Leonid Rogozov developed acute appendicitis on a snowed-in Antarctic research station in 1961, he needed immediate surgery. The problem was, he was the doctor, so he had to operate on himself. His son and a colleague recount the story in the British Medical Journal, with (B&W) photographs.
- Reasons Questions Don't Get Answered on Usenet - from comp.lang.perl in 1995, but still relevant. "No doubt the reason your questions go unanswered is because they're so deep and interesting that nobody really knows the answer." And maybe not...
- Donkey Kong in Post-It Notes - it took ten people five hours to stick 6,400 Post-It notes to the windows of Building E2 at UCSC and re-create the arcade classic.
- Some SEO Advice for Bill Gates - his blog doesn't even make it on to the first page of results in Bing; the fakes and parodies do.
- Bear v. Plane - Duck Tape FTW!
- Beatles infographics - some very nice visualisations of aspects of the history of the Beatles, from who wrote what with whom to which keys predominated on which albums.
- The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy - link courtesy of PRC1964 in TPD, 2007-06-22
- Conversation with an Anonymous Facebook Employee - some people think it may be fake, but if it's true then they know an awful lot about their users.
- New York Timelapse by Tom Coates (flickr video) - repeat after me, Koyaanisqatsi.
- Google Is Changing And It Will Affect Your Site - some thoughts about the recent innovations in Google Search.
Happy invoicing
