Weekly Links

The panic of 2007. (H/T Buddy Larsen)

An awesome staircase.

How to write a book.

Saving the market or postponing doom?

Egg city sculpture.

A tutorial search engine.

Twitter as social proprioception.

Polonium at the lap dance dive.

Escape.

The world's strangest laws.

A major underwater current—hitherto unknown— is discovered by Australian scientists. So much for putting the whole Earth into our global warming models.

10 sites for free legal music downloads.

How Ford's new hydrogen-powered speed record was done.

Is Iraq causing an ammunition shortage?

Russia resumes cold-war patrols.