Morning Linkage (May 14)

Transportation

Wretched excess, the new Porsche 911.

Would you leave this under­stat­ed beau­ty behind if you were mov­ing over­seas? I think not.

Looking a bit too much like Wolverine in squid­ly guise, hold­ing a white chi­na tea cup, and rat­tling on. Road rac­er Guy Martin gives the BBC an inter­view and you get a snick­er. (There’s a love­ly east­er egg in the video. Check the comments.)

Science

Yeah, we put some sharks in our aquar­i­um. We don’t think they’ll eat a whole lot of the exhib­it. Uh huh. Look at what ate the shark. Ignore the ‘scary’ nar­ra­tion, the images aren’t gross, just fas­ci­nat­ing. (homage to schneier)

Truly ran­dom num­bers are the holy grail of cryp­tog­ra­phy. Quantum physics may be the answer. Isn’t QP the answer to every­thing? So now there are 42 tru­ly ran­dom num­bers. Maybe — or not. IO9 tries to explain how it works and why it mat­ters. Violation of Bell inequal­i­ties… My head hurts.

Art, Images, and Design

These are so sil­ly and so cute. Masaku Hori ‘s lit­tle wait­ing dogs that hold your fruit.

Fab black and white dou­ble por­trait: Joe  Lewis and Josephine Baker.

Animation (Sorta)

Rule 34: If you can think of it there is porn of it on the ‘net. Better than Rule 34: Batman porno. Not the Dark Knight bat­man, the late 60’s campy TV ver­sion. Complete with cheesy car­toons bal­loons that say Pop and Pow. Stunningly, this trail­er is SFW.

… and that’s the end your week with the magpie.