Artist Sarah Johnson illustrates Batman doing what the super hero does when he's not out fighting evil and protecting Gotham City. And they're animated, too! Watch Batman fishing, eating ice cream, visiting the men's room, etc. Link -via The Daily What Geek

A funny story from Letters of Note:

Late-1993, renowned astronomer Carl Sagan learnt that Apple's forthcoming computer, the Power Macintosh 7100, had been given a codename of "Carl Sagan" — the joke being that they would sell "billions and billions." This was mentioned in a MacWEEK article some time later, to which Sagan sent the following letter in response.

Apple soon changed the codename to "BHA." Upon learning that it stood for "Butt-Head Astronomer," Sagan filed a lawsuit for defamation of character, and lost. He then sued Apple again, for the original codename, and lost again. So he appealed. Late-1995, the two parties settled out of court, and Apple apologised for any unintended distress caused by the situation.

The 7100's final codename was "LAW." It stood for "Lawyers Are Wimps."

Oh yeah, there's a letter, too. Link -via @shaunusher

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Friskies released some iPad games for your cat to play last year. Now they have a game that you can play against your cat! “You vs. Cat” was unveiled at the SXSW interactive Festival in Austin last night.

The game is simple enough: At one end of the screen the human slings a piece of animated cat food onto the playing board.

The goal? Get the item across the screen into a goal box before you cat stops it by putting its paw on the item.

It’s sort of a 21st century air hockey table for you and your favorite feline friend.

Shown is Buddy the Cat, the current game champion, who demonstrated the game at the unveiling. “You vs. Cat” will be available as a free download next week. Link

The NCAA basketball tournament brackets are out, and 68 schools will battle to see who is the best college basketball team in the nation (cough*Kentucky*cough). Some of the schools are state universities, others have names that don't pinpoint their location. In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you are challenged to figure out where these less obvious schools are on the map. Well, not exactly on the map, but you must guess the state. I scored 82%, that's 9 of 11! See if you can beat that. Link

The term "bucket list," popularized by the 2007 movie of that name, usually refers to a list of things you want to accomplish before you die. This guy appears to be wildly successful due to low aspirations. But he's happy! See a new Twaggie every day at GoComics. Link

Cartoonist Mark Anderson offers instructions for drawing a simple leprechaun that you can use to show your Irish spirit ahead of St. Patrick's Day this weekend. But even better, if you draw one and send it in, he'll post it at Andertoons! Link

You know that feature of Facebook in which it suggests new friends for you among your friend's other friends? In the case of a Seattle man, the social network suggested that his first wife "friend" his second wife. See, he is still married to the first wife.

According to charging documents filed Thursday, Alan L. O'Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried without divorcing her. The first wife first noticed O'Neill had moved on to another woman when Facebook suggested the friendship connection to wife No. 2 under the "People You May Know" feature.

"Wife No. 1 went to wife No. 2's page and saw a picture of her and her husband with a wedding cake," Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told The Associated Press.

Wife No. 1 then called the defendant's mother.

She also called authorities, and O'Neill was arrested for bigamy. He was freed until his court appearance, as he is not considered a threat. Link -via reddit

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Tifa may have been a dog in a previous life. She plays fetch, pants, and wags her tail like a dog! This video was taken when she was about six months old. -via The Daily What

If only 9th grade math were this easy! Matt Cowen illustrates what you add or subtract to create the heros of our comic books, TV, and movies. The equations here add up to the Justice League of America. See more of them in a collection at Buzzfeed. Link

Samantha is a 47-year-old western lowland gorilla who lives at the Erie Zoo. Her gorilla partner died in 2005, and zoo officials believe she is too old to confront another new gorilla. But to keep her from loneliness, they found her a companion in a young Dutch rabbit named Panda.

"To have something sharing their space that they can observe and interact with is always going to be beneficial," zoo Director Cindy Kreider said.

Zookeepers started slowly. Panda was moved to an area close to Samantha's night quarters. Then keepers held her up to Samantha for inspection. Panda was let into the exhibit by herself to get the lay of the land. Finally, he was let in while Sam was in there, too -- with an escape hatch for the rabbit, just in case.

"Right off the bat, they hit it off," Kreider said.

Scott Mitchell, the zoo's chief executive, recalled a time shortly after the two were introduced when Panda hopped up to Samantha's beloved Baby, a stuffed toy gorilla. Know this: No one messes with Baby.

Samantha "pushed the baby out of the way so Panda could go by," Mitchell said.

Another time, she scratched underneath Panda's chin. She shares her food. She reaches down to touch Panda, gently.

Link -via Arbroath

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The Better Business Bureau warns you about the biggest scams that reared their ugly heads in 2011. No doubt there are folks still using these to try to separate you from your money, or even worse, your personal information that can yield even more money through identity theft. The best defense? Know them, avoid them, and remember that much of what you see on the internet is not what it appears to be. Link -via the Presurfer

Dan W, a software developer, used a bookmarklet at Instapaper to save long articles for later reading. Then he came up with a better idea. He made his own bookmarklet to save articles for later reading.

There’s one difference. Mine doesn’t save the page, it just pretends to. And that’s good enough.

I use instapaper a lot. I think it’s a fantastic service. No longer do I have a hundred tabs open to web pages I intend to read at some point before closing the browser. I can push them to instapaper and read them on my commute instead in a calm stripped down format. It works great.

But I find far more things that look interesting than I have time to read. Currently I have 4051 unread links. I had to write some code to find that out because instapaper doesn’t have an unread count anywhere. That lack of unread count is the best feature.

That will simplify your reading list immensely! Dan has made his Instapaper Placebo available for everyone to use. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Eat, dance, sleep. It's a dog's life! This clip is a sample from a longer British Pathe reel from 1952 called Sophisticated She Dog. Link -via Arbroath

In 18th century England, changes in the way medical students were trained sparked a new business: body-snatching. Corpses were needed for educational dissections, and enterprising laborers knew where to get them.

From what little records exist, we know that body-snatchers required some level of moonlight in order to conduct their work in cemeteries, although not all bodies were obtained through exhumation. The clothes and burial shroud were sometimes removed, for stealing a body on its own was not considered theft since it had no value as property.

The body-snatchers might steal as many as six bodies in a single night and often worked in small gangs which fought each other for ‘a monopoly over the cadaver trade’. [3] This might involve desecrating a graveyard that supplied bodies to a rival gang in order to arouse fury from the local population who would then secure the cemetery, making it difficult for future attempts.

Grave robbing led to the development of devices used to protect graves. It also led to suspicions that body-snatchers also murdered people, which wasn't helped by the rare cases in which some did. And the stories fueled fears of being buried alive. One account survives in which a man was saved from such a fate by grave robbers! Read the story at The Chirurgeon's Apprentice. Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science

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Songwriter SrslySirius remixed Gene Wilder's lines from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory into a seriously catchy song. -via Buzzfeed