Link Round-Up: December 26, 2013

"Unspeakably Terrific!" by Nelson Evergreen

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The 8 Best Video Game Scripts of All Time







10 Comic Book DEATHS That (Mostly) Still Matter, according to Newsarama.com.







Alan Moore and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen







Bleeding Cool picked the ten worst comic book costumes of 2013.







David Briggs' The Dimensions of Colour, a comprehensive online explanation of traditional (what you've probably been taught) and modern colour theory, and its applications to visual art. Invaluable for artists and non-artists alike. (The answer: probably some kind of brown. Yes, your kindergarten teachers fed you lies.)







Doctor Who Collector Series Watches

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Link Round-Up: December 24, 2013

Plants vs. Zombies Christmas

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The Marvel Universe Is Way Better When Ghost Rider Is a Hamster







Mighty Mega offers a look at the Incredible Concept Art For The Hobbit







The Most Beautiful Space Stations in the Universe







Top 10 Comic Book Events of 2013

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Jaegermeister was originally developed as a cough medicine and to aid in digestion!

Jaegermeister was originally developed as a cough medicine and to aid in digestion!

Jaegermeister is a German 70-proof digestif, or beverage to be served with a meal. It's made with 56 different herbs and spices.

It has a sweeter taste than many other herbal liquors like Gammel Dansk from Denmark or Unicum from Hungary.

Some of the ingredients include citrus peel, saffron, ginger, ginseng, and juniper berries. The ingredients are ground and steeped in water and alcohol for 2 or 3 days.

Then they are filtered and stored in oak barrels for a year. After a year, the liquor is filtered again and mixed with sugar, caramel, alcohol, and water.

It's filtered one last time and then bottled. Urban legend says that Jaegermeister contains deer or elk blood, but it isn't true. It is suggested that it be kept on ice and served cold.

It's recommended to even be stored in the freezer. It was originally developed as a cold remedy and is jokingly called Leberkleister in Germany. Leberlkeister means "liver glue" and is a play on words since it rhymes with Jaegermeister.

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 27, 2013)

So Close and Yet So Far



I saw the happy pair pass by,

Newly wed midst joy and acclamation,

One simple English word thought I,

Exactly summed the situation.

But years have passed and love is slain,

And now they go divergent ways,

For they have been divorced.

Again, one word quite fits the case.

The second word is like the first,

Two central letters just reversed.





Check Braingle.com for the answer.

Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Dec 27, 2013)

Midnight Sun

This quiz is about Stephenie Meyer's unfinished draft of "Midnight Sun". "Midnight Sun" is "Twilight" from Edward Cullen's point of view.



Take the Quiz at Braingle.com

Creativity : Engineering Challenge : Spaghetti Cantilever

Engineering challenges are fun activities that are frequently assigned to students in physics or engineering classes, but they can easily be used outside of these venues. An engineering challenge usually has a simple goal and some rules about what sorts of materials you are allowed to use. These are great ways to get people thinking creatively and to foster teamwork and competition. Try an engineering challenge at a birthday party, office outing, scout meeting, or any other gathering where you want to have fun and exercise your creativity.



The Spaghetti Cantilever challenge is a fun one. Each team is given a small package of spaghetti, a roll of tape and a table. The objective is to construct a cantilevered structure that extends as far from the table as possible without touching the ground. The structure must be attached to the top of the table and nowhere else. Because spaghetti is very brittle, the engineering becomes very important. Measurements should be taken from the edge of the table to the furthest point of the spaghetti structure.

Memory : Memorizing the Calendar

Memorizing the calendar will allow you to amaze and impress your family and friends with seemingly impossible mental feats. It's actually quite easy to do with a little practice.



For each year that you want to memorize, all you need to do is remember a twelve-digit number. For the year 2005, that number is 26-63-15-37-42-64. Each digit in that number represents the first Sunday of the month. For example, the first Sunday in January is the 2nd. The first Sunday of February is the 6th, and so on.



Now, suppose someone asks you what day Christmas falls on in 2005. First, you retrieve the 12th digit of your secret number; this is 4. Now you know that the first Sunday is on the 4th. You also know that Christmas is 21 days later. Since a week has 7 days, you know that Christmas is exactly 3 weeks ahead and thus also falls on a Sunday. Let's try a harder example: July 21. The secret number for July is 3. There are 18 days between the 3rd and the 21st. That's 2 weeks and 4 days. Since adding a week takes you back to the same day, we only need to add 4 days to Sunday, which is Thursday. Tada!



All you need is an old calendar to construct the secret 12-digit number for that year. Now, you just need to memorize those 12 numbers. This is what the Phonetic Mnemonic System is great at. Using this system, the secret number listed above can be represented as "Notch, Gym, Tail, Hammock, Horn, Chair", which you could easily link together using the Link System. With a little practice, you could memorize several years and be able to calculate any date for those years with only a few seconds of thought.

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Intrepid

in-trep-id



adj :: Characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance.



"After three weeks the intrepid hikers reached the summit of Mt Everest."

After His Dad Got His Hearing Back, A Son Wrote A Song For Him Called "I Liked You Better Deaf"

“And you never would’ve noticed if I swore under my breath, now I don’t have to shout to say I liked you better deaf.”

Danny Hamilton's father has been hard of hearing most of his life. Recently though, his dad invested in hearing aids. So like any good son, Danny wrote a song to celebrate:

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There used to be a time, it was rather recently



When I'd play something on the stereo



And mom would say "Danny won't you turn that noise down"



And you'd say, "it's already very low"



Seemed that I could always count on you



To come and take my side



When I'd set the volume up at 62



And someone else wanted it at 35



But since you found out that your ears are micable



I have to say it's made you just a touch less likeable



You never used to know the difference 'tween the bass and treble clef



And it isn't hard to tell you that I liked you better deaf

It used to be if I'd run out of anything to say



I could just mumble and you'd usually go away



It used to be what I was bringing to the conversation



Was subject to a wider range of your interpretation



But now I see



That I must be



Living in a nightmare, why it's every son's worst fear



To have a dad forever clad with supersonic ears



And I don't mean to tell you that I love you any less



But there's no doubt about it that I liked you better deaf

If I had once forgot to tell you something, say a chord I hadn't struck



Like, "The mail's arrived" "I owe you five" "Run away" or "Duck!"



Once I could have played it off without blood sweat or tears



"I told you that," I'd tell you, and you'd blame it on your ears



It once was undetectable but now it's ineffectual



The odds are insurmountable and I am held accountable



And you never would've noticed if I swore under my breath



Now I don't have to shout to say I liked you better deaf

See now I've reached a point where it's hard to make a rhyme



But the song needs another verse to reach a fitting time



And if I had been writing it for old deaf dad



I might have left a phrase or two... unfinished



But only the best for you and your new hearing



You will find that every rhyme is aurally endearing



And I'm afraid that now you've left me lyrically bereft



But I only need five words to say I liked you better deaf

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The average person in Uganda is only 15 years old!

The average person in Uganda is only 15 years old!

Uganda is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa. Uganda gained independence from Britain on 9 October 1962.

The period since then has been marked by intermittent conflicts, most recently a lengthy civil war against the Lord's Resistance Army, which has caused tens of thousands of casualties and displaced more than a million people.

Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world, with 37.7% of the population living on less than $1.25 a day.

Despite making enormous progress in reducing the countrywide poverty incidence from 56% of the population in 1992 to 31% in 2005, poverty remains deep-rooted in the country's rural areas, which are home to more than 85 per cent of Ugandans.

This is one of the main reasons of why the average person from Uganda is only 15 years old. Most people don’t have the economic support they need in order to achieve more years of live.

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You help Coca Cola every time you use their freestyle machines! Why?

You help Coca Cola every time you use their freestyle machines! Why?

If you never thought that soda machines would adapt to the high-tech world, think again. Coca-Cola's Freestyle fountain comes equipped with a touchscreen that is able to mix flavors on the spot, using precise machinery originally developed for dialysis and cancer treatments.

There are over 100 flavors available, across an array of drink brands, including Coke, Fanta, energy drinks, flavored waters, and more. When you select a drink, you're able to select from a variety of flavors, some of which are unfamiliar (Raspberry Coke?! Peach Fanta?!).

Coca Cola Freestyle machines send data to Coke's headquarters to help inform them whether beverage flavors should be recalled, discontinued or created.

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Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school!

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school!

Few people look forward to going to school every day, but those who suffer from Didaskaleinophobia actually feel intense and continuous anxiety at the thought of attending class every day.

Children who possess this phobia can be bullied, suffer from learning disability, feel academically pressured (especially around exam time) or are even too bright and find it hard to stay engaged with the curriculum and their peers.

This phobia can cause intense anxiety, heart palpitation, nausea, and above all, profound and all-consuming depression. Incidentally, it can also induce suicidal thoughts.

Nowadays, there are many medications available for keeping this anxiety at bay, anti-depressants being one of them.

However, milder cases can be cured by sharing your feelings with someone you trust and then working together to devise a solution.

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This is how long you'd survive in outer space with no gear on.

This is how long you'd survive in outer space with no gear on.

Don't go rushing to book your tickets on a space flight just yet, it's not a super long time.

While you won't explode, swell up, freeze or go through any sort of living hell, it wouldn't be the best thing you could do for your health either.

You could suffer from really bad sunburn if you're on the wrong side of the planet. Within 10 seconds you'd start experiencing swelling skin and the bends, gases bubbling up inside you due to decompression.

After about 30-40 seconds, you'll probably fall unconscious from lack of oxygen. Injuries start to build up and, after 1-2 minutes, you'd probably be dead.

One test subject at a NASA research center was accidentally left in a near-vacuum for 15 seconds in 1965. He was in a simulate environment when his suit failed.

He reported feeling and hearing the air leaking out of the spacesuit he was in and his last conscious memory, 14 seconds into the ordeal, was the water in his mouth boiling. He regained consciousness when the test chamber had a pressure equivalent to a 15,000 feet altitude.

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I miss it, too

But probably for different reasons.

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Your pupils dilate when you see someone attractive.

Your pupils dilate when you see someone attractive.

Pupil dilation actually occurs for many reasons. If you've ever stood in front of a mirror and turned the light on and off, you may have noticed the effect it has on your pupils.

Your pupils dilate in the dark because this allows more light to enter.

Some drugs can also cause pupil dilation, but among the most interesting cause is pleasure, both physical and psychological.

This includes when you find someone attractive. The mind likes to look at attractive things. Our minds also see dilated pupils as being attractive. What's interesting is that if you find someone unattractive, your pupils will contract.

It can be a subconscious measure of how much you like a person. This isn't exclusive to people, though. The pupils will also dilate when looking at anything visually pleasing: Scenic nature, cute animals, good food, and even the right kind of technology for some fanboys.

There is a whole study devoted to pupil size as an indicator of emotion, known as pupillometrics. In a series of studies conducted by Eckhard Hess, a biopsychologist, and his assistant James Polt, a few things were concluded. They showed men photographs of women.

Some photographs had women with dilated pupils, and others didn't. The men generally favored the photos of the women with enlarged pupils.

A study at Edinburgh University also proved this also applies to women looking at men. In the end, it was concluded that the attraction to dilated pupils is factual, but subjective.

Though people with dilated pupils are generally regarded as attractive, the pupils of people viewing them will typically only dilate if the subject is of a corresponding interest based on sexual orientation.

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