Managed to get through Space is Key with only 432 deaths.

Great puzzle/platformer: Transmover New Generation. See the Jay is Games review if you can’t figure out what you are supposed to do (or with what keys).

This is going to come in very handy: 101 10-minute recipes from The Minimalist.

Love 3eanuts:

Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters' expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.

Of course reminiscent of Garfield Minus Garfield:

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

Unbelievable videos of quadrotor robots flying around:

• Aggressive Maneuvers for Autonomous Quadrotor Flight
• Aggressive Quadrotor Part II
• Quadrocopter Ball Juggling

Bonus, the first one produced my favorite YouTube comment of all time: “Can’t wait to have twenty of the little bastards chase me around the post apocalyptic wasteland.”

(thx david)

A follow-up to the recent great Wired story, One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind. Turns out there’s all kinds of Directly Downwind Faster than the Wind information out there, and I love these videos:

• Under the ruler faster than the ruler
• Under the ruler 2: the ground moves
• Under the ruler 3: tilting the ruler

Makes my brain hurt. I don’t understand why the big wheel turns in the direction that it turns. Dunce caps for me and poor hapless George, I guess.

I posted one of these slo-mo lightning clips from Tom Warner before, but I think I like this one better:

Randall Munroe’s radiation dose chart. Great work.

Unsurprising, but still sucky: Amazon stymies Lendle e-book lending service. You don’t buy eBooks from Amazon, you rent them. I’ll stick with old fashioned dead tree editions, thankyouverymuch (although I’d love a Kindle as a dedicated Instapaper reader).

Recent book sculptures I like: The Book Sphere and the works of The Book Surgeon.

Fun little physics/shooter puzzle: Cuboy Quest.

Great story of this fellow who sets out to prove he can build a completely wind-powered vehicle that can travel directly downwind, faster than the wind: One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind. Dad, read this one.