Random Links - 16

1. I remember seeing such knife-sharpening bicycles in India - via
2. Now that we have entered the world of CDs and miniature zip drives that can carry hundreds of floppy disks worth of data in a keychain, what do we do with all those floppy disks? Here's a bag... what else can you do? - via
3. Monster Ass Kicking 3 yo Girl... lovely! - via
4. At 25, compact disc faces retirement
5. One thing leads to another - interesting things people built up. Apparently this is from a Japanese tv show - via
6. Apoteket Orkestern. creative website - go see what its all about. Turn volume on if it is on mute - via
7. some jaw dropping examples of next generation image manipulation, and said “I want this in PhotoShop immediately.” Well, that may be happening sooner rather than later. Co-inventor Shai Avidan has now joined Adobe and will work out of their Newtown, MA office. More info on Shai is here - via
8. Recently I read about this whizkid - Facebook's Joe Hewitt. If nothing else, gotta say thank you to him for developing my browser of choice, Firefox. :) (Also, another audio interview from last week.)
9. Radioactive Nanda Devi: India's second-highest peak, at 25,645 feet (7816m), sits in a "sanctuary," surrounded by 21,000-foot+ lesser mountains. This has made it even more of a challenge to climb. Among those who took up the challenge were a 1965 CIA team trying to set up a plutonium-powered device to spy on China's nuclear testing program. That expedition retreated in the face of bad weather, leaving the device on the mountain. When they returned the next spring, it was gone. The Nanda Devi Sanctuary supplies water to the Ganges River, and there were fears that the four pounds of plutonium in the device could escape into the watershed. Those fears have been confirmed. - via
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