Geektastic Links for Thanksgiving

Couldn't resist sharing for the holidays. Happy Turkey Day everyone!

• DC power service - originally provided by Thomas Edison's company - in Manhattan is finally being discontinued. Now when will they start discontinuing the hundreds of obsolete telecommunications protocols that we poor equipment vendors are still being asked to support?
• Some of the coolest natural phenomena in the world. Plan your next vacation accordingly.
• Negative refractive index materials. I would consider returning to academia just for the chance to ponder all of the implications of this stuff ... like stopping light completely.
• Mathematical proof that Futurama is indeed the geekiest show on television. It lapses into Spanish towards the end. This means something ....
• You must read this webcomic. Anyone who can make a joke that requires knowing the periodic table symbol for tin is a verifiable genius.
• I could be on this list if I wanted to be. I'd be at least a 300. I just don't like taking tests anymore....
• Ever listened to the sounds the road makes and wonder if you could engineer it to make music? Um, no, me neither. That would be weird, wouldn't it. Ahem.
• You, too can draw fractals by hand. Sure it takes a few hours to get something passable, but it involves math and really, what better did you have to do today?