It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• You’ve seen microscopy competition stills, but here are the 2011 Nikon Small World in Motion winners. The winner is an embryonic ink injection that is astounding. All three winning videos are complete with ancillary information. A real treat!
• Steve Albini cooks. No. Really. Like, on a stove. In a kitchen. And he writes about it! Make yer own Kerosene joke.
• Keep calm and tweet on. Social media propaganda. {via Joseph K}
• Arrivederci, Nello Ferrara, inventor of Atomic FireBalls, Lemonheads, and Black Forest Gummy Bears. Mille grazie. {via Surly Amy}
• Questionable Content. It’s a slice-of-life webcomic by Jeph Jacques, launched wa-a-a-ay back in 2003. {thanks to Todd D}

Lots more. Okay, go!

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If you’re planning to cook a romantic meal for your Valentine on Tuesday and still need ideas (or just want to ogle some gorgeous food porn), the New York Times Dining & Wine section has a great slideshow of dishes that feature ingredients commonly believed to have aphrodisiac properties (with links to the recipes). Even better, the slides go into the origin and science behind these associations.

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You know Hanna Hart from My Drunk Kitchen, right? Of course you do. Well, did you know she can sing? And I mean really sing.

“Oh, Internet” is a love song inspired by SOPA. Because, y’know, that’s what you do. And Hanna totally kills it. You need to listen to this…

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Having trouble talking yourself into running a 5K? Maybe some strategically-placed zombies will be able to convince you to make it to the finish line!

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 505 million years ago strange and wonderful creatures filled the seas. Thanks to the evolution of pelagic larvae nearly every wet spot on earth was populated (mostly) by soft bodied invertebrates. The vast majority were filter feeding lay abouts, but some were real up and comers with large, hard bodies and an appetite for their sedentary contemporaries. The undisputed queen of the sea was Anomalocaris, who likely fed on just about everyone.

Anomalocaris means "strange shrimp"

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• From Russian biologist Alexander Semenov: Underwater Experiments: Astounding Photographs of Jellyfish. For more, also visit his extraordinary gallery and flickr page.
• What did people do in a Medieval city? Apparently a whole heck of a LOT!
• The masterful Christopher Bird, known as Mightygodking, illustrated remixes of Atari video game covers. And they’re nostalgically awesome.
• If there’s ONE tumblr you follow this week, it should be Fresh Photons. {via Ryan}
• Okay, if there are TWO tumblrs you follow this week, the other one should be Fuck Yeah Art & Science {via Brian G}
• Mark Jenkins does some crazy stuff. {via Maria}

Exo, metro, ink, early art, Fibonacci pineapple, and the Aurora. Jump!

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Over a decade ago I painted a series of paintings about women artists who were not ever really recognized in their lifetime because they had been married to other famous artists. I was reminded of this project just the other day when I read that Dorothea Tanning, surrealist painter, poet and wife of Max Ernst had passed away at age 101.

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It occurs to me that our audience is probably full of artists, at the very least casual ones. I’m curious what all of you do. Are you painters, dancers, writers, interpretive skateboarding mimes?

Are you an artist? Do you create? If so what? If not, make something and then tell us about it.

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• Death star wedding cake
• Artists at the Science Conference (may contain tree lobsters)
• Aerogel.org – open-source aerogel. Oh yes.
• Test tube chandelier
• Zombie bed sheets
• Can you live without a heartbeat? Yes, apparently.
• You’re reading Puppet a Week, right?
• D&D Dice Gauntlet
• Pi kitchen backsplash
• The dark secret behind quirky romantic comedies.
• This intricate doodle by a teenager (apparently crushing on Alan) is a pareidolia minefield.

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Because octopods are awesome

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