Also, my apologies for the absence of posts last week. I got a cold and needed to catch up on sleep. Links will resume again tomorrow. -Nick

The effects of Alzheimer’s on an artist’s work. For more details, read the accompanying article. Also, this is a New York Times article, so the link may become available at some point. I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do about that.

What does a cat’s tongue look like up close? Click the link to find out…

Update: turns out this shot won 1st place in the Animals and Nature category of Digital Camera Magazine’s Photographer of the Year contest, where you’ll find lots of other amazing pictures.

Sketch furniture may not have any practical applications (yet), but the idea of drawing furniture in thin air and printing the physical objects is just amazingly cool.

Gladwell on the formula for making perfect movies. Speaking of movie formulas, the Netflix Prize offers a million dollars to the team that substantially improves their movie recommendations. The data of course reveals lots of fun facts, such as these lists of loved, hated and contentious movies.

Markus Hofer has some really fun pieces. Along with the above pictured Room Corner, Light Cone and Juice are personal favorites. The site’s in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.

Casey Templeton was named College Photographer of the Year in 2005. I particularly like his rugby and chair aerobics series. Thanks to Kiley McEvoy for the link.

Disco, a new OS X app, quite literally burns your CD. A brilliant touch.

The printer as social letterbox, or what if you could print stuff for your friends. As much as I hate wasting more paper, there’s something about getting a physical printout (also, this could be a great way to recycle all the one-sided printouts lying around your office).