Random links of the hour
The MPAA anti-piracy goons are thoroughly incompetent (and lying bastards, and not above abusing an academic network for non-academic packet sniffing) — but we knew that already, right? Perhaps the **AA’s deserve to have a slime-mold beetle or two named in their honor: Cornell researchers have already named a few species after the crew of monkeys currently leading the US of A.
On a totally different note, a set of interesting illustrations of Indian gods. I am not sure if there is a name for the art style (”Adobe Illustrator-ism”?); it is somewhat similar to scarygoround or shag, among others.
And on yet another different note, a Russian company called EKIP (perhaps the correct transliteration should be “equipe”) has designed a flying wing aircraft with ekranoplan and hovercraft capabilities. Sounds interesting — I hope the company can find the funding to get beyond prototype stage.
The above links were extracted from /. and boingboing.