Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of Scooter Libby and the press-conference (where each reporter had a handout copy of the indictment in hand) was a remarkable presentation. Now Mark Leibovich of the Washington Post has written an interesting account of the Abramoff documents. I hope a Kindly Contributor can provide links to both indictments and the Fitzgerald press conference, as well as what must be an immense collection of indictment presentations, and indeed judicial opinions, that combine evidence and advocacy.

Continuous live video of of Mei Xiang, a giant panda, and her cub, Tai Shan, at the Smithsonian's National Zoo during Washington, DC daylight hours here.

WARNING: For some, panda cam has proved highly addictive. Users may wish to place the panda-cam live video in a discreet corner of the desktop while simultaneously running a spreadsheet or whatever.

Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte lecture to The Skeptics Society, Caltech December 2004. Video of 73 minutes (lecture + questions) available from The Skeptics Society at http://www.skeptic.com or 626 794-3119. Videotape $19.95; CD $15.95 This is the talk that Michael Shermer was kind enough to write up in Scientific American (below). I prefer the general form of the FT principle--"simple design, intense conent"--to the van mataphor. From the April 2005 Scientific American:

Here is a meditative video that shows a variety of birds gently moving. This video is also available on YouTube and Vimeo Music for above: Mozart, Piano sonata no. 13 in B flat major, K. 333, pianist Brendan Kinsella via www.musopen.com. Here are some more pieces in the Bird series. This work consists of 12 mobiles, suspended and quietly moving in the air. These mobiles continue the original Bird series, which perched the perforated anodized aluminum constructions on stainless steel poles. The photograph above is shown here in a large screen JPEG. Dmitry Krasny took this wonderful photograph above with an antique camera using black and white roll film. The photograph above, with the piece "The Dove of Love Fell Off Its Perch" (center), is shown here in a large screen JPEG.

Neptune.

Data from the Hubble.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, abandoned PPT in 2012. His presentation replacement = ET method for doing meetings:

Two short pieces from Nature 432 (12 May 2005) raise serious issues concerning image manipulation, which reach the outright lie level for the womb movie. The first is an essay by the great art historian, Martin Kemp:

A delightful link from boing boing via Paper Forest: http://www.amago.jp.lv/papercraft/papercraft2.html Presented are pdf files for printing out (in color, please) and constructing 3D papers models of fish. One of my colleagues will construct a fish and we'll have some pictures. For other amazing paper constructions, see Paper Forest http://paperforest.blogspot.com/ and also http://www.yamaha-motor.co.jp/global/entertainment/papercraft/animal-global/index.html