Random Links - 11

Got lazy today and did not keep track of the source for each link. All links are from Boing-Boing, Digg.com, and a few other sites I perused through this evening.

1. The Daily Mail has an article about how kids have been restricted from roaming far from their houses when they play or go to school, and why this is bad for their mental health. It includes a map that shows how, over four generations, the roaming range afforded to kids has shrunk to the size a a backyard..

2. Gallery of homemade Chechen guns seized by Russian police.

3. Master pranksters The Yes Men crashed the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary this week, impersonating a rep from the National Petroleum Council at a keynote in which they proposed to convert people who died from climate change disasters into fuel.

4. An interview with several anonymous doctors who tell of mistakes they've made and deaths that they have caused.

5. From Sea to Shining Sea
Check out this stunning visualization of flight patterns over the US, created with FAA data.

6. This story is straight out of Taiwan, this child's body is actually magnetic and so is his fathers. Watch as they hang silverware and an iron off of their bodies. Apparently it all started after he was in the army.

7. Awesome... If you took a picture of the Sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the Sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. Here's a picture of it take over the course of a year.

8. Prisons of the World | Interesting locations, harsh conditions and little known facts, includes images and video. - via Mefi

9. Ph.D. candidate presents thesis in her underwear
Jennifer Chowdhury demonstrates her Ph.D. thesis project at New York University, an interactive game called Intimate Controllers. A set of sensors embedded in underwear direct the action on a video game. Players touch each other to control the game.

10. Holy Crap, I want to be a caveman!
"Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies as a way of building up cultural ties."

11. Beauty is more than skin deep. - via Mefi

12. The Third View project is a fascinating presentation of "rephotographs" of over 100 historic landscape sites in the American West that presents original 19th-century survey photographs, photographed again in the 1970s, then once again in the '90s - from the original vantage points, under similar lighting conditions, at (roughly) the same time of day and year. - via Mefi