Friday links

The Jeep Hackers Are Back to Prove Car Hacking Can Get Much Worse.

Revolutionary War Olympics: The Games Our Founders Played.

The annual Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, with the best viewing after local midnight. Too late for you? NASA will live-stream the shower.

Predicting weather with bug sex.

Laziness is a sign of high intelligence

10 Travel Tips From the Age of Napoleon.

ICYMI, Tuesday's links are here, and include the history of French fries, the anniversary of the battle of Thermopylae, a supercut of "We don’t negotiate with terrorists", and a roundup of wooden skyscrapers.

Friday links

Child labor photos from the Library of Congress.

How many fireflies would it take to match the brightness of the Sun?

Exiled Italian prince, only male heir to throne, now sells pasta from a van in California.

Universal law of urination in mammals - everything pees for (approximately) 21 seconds.

Why Old Men Have Big Ears.

Illustrated Travel Books of the Edwardian Era.

ICYMI, Wednesday's links are here, and include the anniversary of the 20th of July plot (the unsuccessful bomb attempt to kill Hitler in 1944), calculating the Ghostbusters' 35 foot long Twinkie in real life, Apollo 11 anniversary, and male contraceptive news (just wear a polyester sling, and let the heat and electrostatics do all the work).

Friday links

Dr. Samuel Johnson was born on this date in 1709: here's a selection of his insults and Scotland-bashing quotes.

25 Unusual Foreign Travel Warnings for Visiting the U.S.

This Father Pulled Out His Daughter’s Wobbly Tooth With A Drone.

Hormone Guide: How to Speak to Women.

Harvard linguist points out the 58 most commonly misused words and phrases.

Close Calls: Three Times When the Human Race Barely Escaped Extinction.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include a selection of really bad book covers (and books), the world's longest (700 miles) yard sale, 10 and 8 year old Seattle girls who launched their own spacecraft, and footage of an 800K gallon Jim Beam spill 1. hit by lightning then 2. sucked into the air by a tornado.

Game of Thrones Travel Guide

You can't actually go to Westeros, of course, but you can go to all of the places the show was filmed, including but not limited to Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Malta, Croatia and Morocco.

This post at Epic Luxury describes where the various scenes were filmed and has links to further information about each.

via Daily of the Day.