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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 📀📺🎥

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 🐧📕

penguin.jos.ht

3) Love this gif shared by nixCraft that illustrates counting in binary in a cool tangible way 0️⃣1️⃣

Via mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1106

#Binary#Code#Math

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 🐙

scientificamerican.com/article

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 🎨🖼️

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!

John Cutting

@lauraehall
I've started to look forward to these every Friday. Thank you, Laura!