Interesting Links for 17-10-2011

• From whales to earthworms, the mechanism that gives shape to life is discovered
  (tags: hox genes life .biology )
• Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
  (tags: camera technology photography )
• How to avoid having naked photos stolen by hackers
  (tags: nudity security photography funny )
• A Public Service Announcement regarding Supervillians
  (tags: superheroes evil crime villiany )
• Okay, so now I really want to visit the City Museum in St Louis.
  (tags: museum usa awesome )
• How to choose between 'that' and 'which', and why it matters
  (tags: language grammar english )
• Amazon goes into the publishing business.
  (tags: publishing books amazon business )
• Ceramic knife - I got one of these for my birthday, and I love it.
  (tags: knife cooking ceramic )

Images from around the web: high heels, blippblopp and where your supermarket is supplied from

I have lived with people who liked this genre:

via webofevil

This is why I don't like the thought of people wearing high heels:


And this looks too spicy for me:

via riotclitshave

My Star-Trek Moment

So, octopoid_horror asked if my new ceramic knife could be smuggled onto planes.

And I wondered how I could tell if a metal detector would be able to pick it up (short of finding some magnets and waving them at it carefully.

And then draxar pointed out that I could download a metal detector for my phone.

Because it has a compass built into it, and can thus tell when metal objects are being waved at it.

And it worked perfectly (and no, I cannot smuggle my kitchenware onto flights).

And suddenly I feel even more like I'm living in Star-Trek.