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Thursday 18 September 2014

The linkdrop: Thursday October 31, 2013

Rounding up the day's trending stories, videos, and features in six bitesize paragraphs


The internet is a wonderful place. It holds all of these lovely people and things.
The internet is a wonderful place. It holds all of these lovely people and things.  

1. Attenborough narrates the twerk

"What follows may seem like dueling. But actually it is once again a kind of dancing... The sequence of movements is long and complicated. If both partners perform without mistakes and in harmony then at last comes the most intimate act of all."

2. Cow Tunnels

Before refrigeration New York had a problem with cattle (aka mobile beefs). As the railways brought in herds to feed the city, the streets became clogged with cows on the way to slaughter in the Meatpacking district.

The solution, apparently, was a Cow Tunnel under the city, which is sadly now lost.

Gizmodo separates fact from legend.

3. Safety dance

Yes this is marketing, but it's also entertaining and supposedly designed to save lives by getting people to watch the safety video on airliners. Virgin America has turned it's safety demonstration into a song and dance routine with TV talent stars & sexy cabin crew. And it will actually be shown on planes from November.

4. Vanishing point

Meet Ed Bolian, the man who drove across America in 28 hours & 50 minutes in a modified Mercedes at an average speed of 98mph for the 2814 mile Canonball Run route, smashing the previous record by over an hour and presumably dodging cops the whole way.

5. Slow TV

It started with a seven hour live broadcast of a train journey, continued with a 134 hour fjord cruise before settling down to live knitting & a 12 hour broadcast of a fireplace. Slow TV is now a thing in Norway.

Here at the Telegraph we can confirm the appeal of this slow TV after the huge popularity of our royal baby webcam pointed at a hospital door for three days.

6. Inside a Banana flower

This beautiful gif animation showing an MRI cross section of a banana flower has drawn our attention to Inside Insides, a site dedicated to Magnetic Resonance Imaging of foods from Boston based researcher Andy Ellison. Dig in for ghostly cross sections of fruit & veg.

Seen something linkable? Email tm@telegraph.co.uk or contact @jbcoopr and we'll hat-tip your Twitter account.

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