Fink's Links #34

Another week has slipped through our collective fingers (and marched us one step closer to Christmas cheer!), however, it's been a bit of a light week for interesting tube matter, but what I do have - Señor, está de calidad muy buena...and it's mostly all mind-expanding stuff (not so much silliness, which will please some people, I'm sure), so let's get stuck in -

Firstly (and you may or may not have seen this project kicking around, but) it looks like Darwin@Home has finished it's early attempts to use distributed computing to "evolve" simple forms of movement by random mutation, watch the results of the experiment here (with commentary)...

Enjoy some incredible shots of striped icebergs (they look like they belong in a sweet packet labelled "ice cool mints")... ;)

Read about the man who stuck his head into a particle accelerator (really) and learn a bit about "Science towns" in the former USSR while you are at it...

Amazing remote cam pic called "snarling wolf over dinner"...(not for the faint hearted)...

How an engineer folds t-shirts...someone should sell these things!

An awesome "then and now" look at how technological improvements at NASA over the last 50 years have opened up our view of the Sol system in incredible ways... :)

Peep from behind your fingers (with an "ouch" expression on your face) as some Estonians enjoy their popular national sport - Kiiking...

Ever wondered how your mobile phone network actually functions? How that voicemail arrived even though the phone never rang? Why the battery on your handset runs out much quicker when you are in the middle of nowhere...? Really truly why you aren't allowed to use your mobile on a plane? All the answers are here...

...and finally for your delectation a very tasty "Ramadan fail"...

More links next week and previous weeks links can be found here... ;)