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Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly collection of good links, a roundup stuff I enjoyed over the past week!
Today’s links include DVD extras, custom book covers and surprising octopus pals 
1) This YouTube channel posts DVD extras like bonus features and behind the scenes featurettes 
https://youtube.com/@dvdextras393
I learned so much about the art of visual storytelling from watching things like this and listening to commentary tracks, I really miss things like this
(Let me know if you find a particularly great one on there!)
2) Make your own Penguin Classics book cover with ease using this generator tool 
3) Love this gif shared by nixCraft that illustrates counting in binary in a cool tangible way 
4) Octopuses are usually solitary and incubate their eggs for at least 5 years, sometimes up to 13 (!)
So it’s exciting that scientists have found “the largest aggregate of octopuses known anywhere in the world, deep-sea or not”, where octopuses are hatching their eggs in less than 2 years
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hot-secret-behind-a-deep-sea-octopus-garden/
5) How close can you get to painting an approximate copy of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? Find out with this fun Clone-a Lisa game 
https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/
(My best so far is 72%, what’s yours?)
And that's all for this week, thanks for reading! If you enjoyed this thread, please boost the first post (or any favs in the thread) and stay tuned for next week's installment
Have a great weekend!
@lauraehall
I've started to look forward to these every Friday. Thank you, Laura!
@lauraehall I got like a 61% and am SHOCKED it was that high 
@helveticablanc if you play enough times it eventually devolves into strategic blob placement, hahah
@lauraehall
(That was 79, promised)
@lauraehall I can barely shade in the masses in that amount of time, let alone do any detail!!! 
@acm_redfox @lauraehall i got 46% for a childish mess of blobs, incredible.
@lauraehall what's weird is that the octopi die doing this. They are all lethargic like they are hibernating. Just acting like a defensive shell for their eggs. It's like an octopus graveyard/nursery.
@lauraehall Something was really confusing me about this, because it's seemingly contradictory to everything I've ever read about octopus life cycles. It's rare for an octopus to even *live* five years to begin with, so spending over five years brooding seems impossible.
I think the 5-13 years stated is an extrapolation of how long it *should* take at 34.9°F based on how long it takes at higher temperatures, not a statement of how long it takes for the eggs to hatch in normal circumstances.
@lauraehall I loved this marble binary computer (in spanish, but it's self explanatory)
https://youtu.be/NQX6irk11qA?si=jPWEqXcF6oNoyXRm
𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌
@lauraehall
There are 10 types of people in the world - those who can count in binary and those who can't.
@lauraehall this is incredibly cool!
@lauraehall Gotta wonder how hexadecimal would work!
@Kencf618033 @lauraehall you'll need 15 tokens for each digit, and the last pushes the next row, I guess… 
@noavelasco Probably not feasible by hand!
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@lauraehall This of course is why binary computers stop working in space 
(Love the improved alt text btw)