Fink's Links #29

Links a day early this week, thanks to the start of Tim's Stag do tomorrow (which I will attempt to moblog as we go about it, so watch this space over the weekend if you are interested)...!

First off this week, take a dip into a guide (published in 1736) to the gutter slang "Thieves cant"...

Next, watch as the Earth is hit by a massive asteroid (courtesy of the Discovery Channel)...

Join Banksy as he takes a road trip across America drawing pictures...

Take a little peek at the pointy-end of a cluster bomb?

Assess your chances of getting out alive (Star Trek edition)...

Spend some time checking out the guy who decided to build a clone of the Apollo mission guidance computer...gets a bit hardcore, but even the overview is worth a peek... ;)

Wired's Howto blog explains how to keep streamed MP3s for later...

Now how about a little walk around a Russian Cold War Nuclear bunker?

Learn how archeologists are going to use Muons to peer inside Mayan ruins...

Scientists building the worlds most powerful magnet, able to withstand forces equivalent to "200 sticks of dynamite concentrated into a space the size of a marble"...

Be suprised if you missed this, but watch the Mythbusters guys use 2100 paintball guns (linked together) to paint a picture of the Mona Lisa...

Check out a triple layered Klein bottle (from the British Science Museum's collection)...

See (the suprisingly sensible) approach to protecting German firemen from flames, reported in Modern Mechanics magazine, Feb 1931...

Find out about America's Pluto Missile project - "a locomotive-size missile powered by an unshielded nuclear ramjet that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead"...nice!

Following the theme, how two US students went ahead and worked out how to build their own A-Bomb (in 1964)...

Watch this video of the incredible innespace dolphin jetski...

...and finally an excellent "Pen Fail"...

More linktastic goodness at the same time next week and previous weeks links can be found here (as if you needed any more)... ;)