links for 2010-04-15

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• 8 Freaky Animals With Human Parts
  Many animals are so in tune with the human species, that it might freak you out. Dogs can sense danger or sadnessMonkeys can use iPads. Honey badgers are all, "IDGAF," and eating pistachios. SEE ALSO: 20 Animals So Ugly They're Cute If you think that's crazy, you haven't seen the worst of it. We took these animals to a whole new leve […]
  Christine Erickson
• Indiana Jones' Final Test for the Holy Grail
  In the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the title hero sets out to find the Holy Grail with only a diary and a map without any labels — and he has to find the grail before anyone else does. SEE ALSO: More Comics on Mashable In this comic, Josh Mecouch of Formal Sweatpants shows us that there was an even more difficult final task than the one we […]
  Matt Petronzio
• Watch the 6-Second 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Homemade Vine Trailer
  Low-budget recreations of movie trailers are nothing new. We've seen plenty on YouTube, but one Star Trek Into Darkness fan this week leveraged Twitter's six-second video service, Vine, in a crafty way to imitate the new film's trailer Frank Danna of Texas spent three hours storyboarding scenes, cutting craft paper and filming his stop-motion […]
  Brian Anthony Hernandez
• Going Public Made Facebook a Much Better Company
  It's easy to forget how sky-high expectations were for the Facebook IPO. The day before the company went public, some investors reasonably assumed that by the close of the market, Facebook would be worth $140 billion since the average first-day pop for tech companies was 32% Forbes also urged investors to "Buy Early And Buy As Much As You Can. […]
  Todd Wasserman
• Photo Project Will Send Balloon to Lower Stratosphere
  NASA may have retired the space shuttle, but that doesn't mean amateur explorers need to stay grounded, right? The Kua Fu Initiative is a photo project raising funds through Kickstarter to send a payload capsule into the lower stratosphere to capture HD photos and videos. Doug Cambron, the project's founder and a safety system supervisor from Perry […]
  Eric Larson
• How Klingon Became a Universal Language
  When Marc Okrand graduated from Berkeley University with a degree in linguistics decades ago, he never guessed he'd become the mastermind behind a language with one of the biggest cult followings in the world. Klingon — the official language spoken by the fictional warrior race in the Star Trek franchise — has taken on a life of its own. In addition to […]
  Samantha Murphy
• Is DirecTV Buying Hulu Soon?
  Satellite TV provider DirecTV reportedly is considering buying streaming video service Hulu, which would strip away some or all ownership from Comcast Corporation, News Corporation and Walt Disney Company. A similar scenario took place two years ago when DirecTV initially wanted to own Hulu Mashable has reached out to DirecTV. Hulu declined to comment. A sou […]
  Brian Anthony Hernandez