July 2010
6 posts
June 2010
3 posts
Lies We Tell Kids →
There’s never a point where the adults sit you down and explain all the lies they told you. They’ve forgotten most of them. So if you’re going to clear these lies out of your head, you’re going to have to do it yourself.
WatchInspired by Iceland
May 2010
6 posts
“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is...”
– Albert Einstein (via)
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a...”
– Michael Levine (via)
WatchF5 Titles (by Sean McGovern)
April 2010
5 posts
“The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six...”
– Freeman Dyson – From Eros To Gaia
“I and Somalia against the world. I and my clan against Somalia. I and my family...”
– Somalian proverb
“Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it,
Or who has said it,
Not even if...”
– Buddha
March 2010
4 posts
WatchThe Sandpit – New York City, in miniature.
February 2010
6 posts
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
January 2010
5 posts
1 tag
Appendix 1[K] →
I have now “liked” a round 1024 things on tumblr; they’re listed taphonomically in the appendix section of this tumblog.
December 2009
5 posts
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via)
y=e^x (e ta duh x) →
Abstruse Goose comic #218
November 2009
2 posts
WatchSwiss winter wonderland
Watch“NEIL YOUNG” SINGS FRESH PRINCE
October 2009
5 posts
Polar bear plus grizzly equals? →
A new study reveals what happens when a polar bear is crossed with a grizzly.
Death and Pet →
Commentary: Originally I had completely focused on the relationship between the Death guy and the pet, whatever it is. That was…(puts on sunglasses) a dead end. YEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
Leaping Iberian wolf snatches international photo... →
A captivating image of a wolf wins the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.
TSA Successfully Defends Itself →
Story here. Basically, a woman posts a horrible story of how she was mistreated by the TSA, and the TSA responds by releasing the video showing that she was lying. There was a similar story in 2007. Then, I [Schneier] wrote:
Why is it that we all — myself included — believe these stories? Why are we so quick to assume that the TSA is a bunch of jack-booted thugs, officious and...
Saturn at equinox →
Checking in with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, our current emissary to Saturn, some 1.5 billion kilometers (932 million miles) distant from Earth, we find it recently gathering images of the Saturnian…
August 2009
6 posts
WatchVortex smoke ring collision
Q-BLOCK, 3D pixel art drawing tool →
drag to rotate the objects
Tr.im shuts down, breaking millions of shortened... →
we were warned; someone should call Archive Team
“In a world without a police force and a rapidly growing population, early...”
– Rough justice
July 2009
7 posts
“Roaches haven’t changed at all in 60 million years—except for this one: I...”
– Dan Liebert
“What happens when you play a country song backwards?
You get your wife, truck...”
– via
Edna Beecher, I agree →
These character’s lives will gradually progress, with (usually) one change per day.
Jean Peters has forgotten to lock the back door.
Gene Hood has made hundreds of paintings in the style of Jackson Pollock.
Lynn Berman believes that animals should be baptised.
Ian Blanchard is holding a Pizza Hut balloon in Trafalgar Square.
Donna Channing is disappointed with artist’s...
WatchWorld Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale (via)
1 tag
“[In physics] you have to have some understanding of the connection of the words...”
– Richard Feynman, The Messenger Series: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics [44:45]
“I have never encountered men whose language, costume, or customs are foreign...”
– Severian the Lictor,
in The Sword of the Lictor, third tale in The Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (via)
June 2009
5 posts
Google Street View helps net Dutch 'muggers' →
“The picture was taken just a moment before the crime.”
WatchCool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions (2009 MTV Movie Awards Digital Short)
May 2009
9 posts
“Any word you have to hunt for in a [book of words and their synonyms] is the...”
– almost Stephen King
“If you get to thinking you are a person of some influence, try ordering somebody...”
– Will Rogers
“Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath.”
– Michael Caine
1 tag
Pipi Quinlan, 3, buys mechanical digger in net... →
I think Mr. Pipi should choose something his size.
“It’s too much for me to take.. I can’t stand it! It’s pretty...”
– Linus
