February 2008
110 posts
What happens when you can't count past four? →
Via nostrich’s reference post.
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Leap tomorrow! →
The two most amusing explanations for why we have leap years that I’ve heard came from creationists: Those scientists can’t even measure the length of the year accurately! They have to keep…
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Doublenaut | About →
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Evaluating Extraordinary Claims: Mind Over Matter?... →
The Biblical Theist can point to Deuteronomy 6:16, which states “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test” and claim that of course prayer doesn’t work when part of an experiment, but it does…
Do it done →
Print this out on colourful paper. Pink would be ideal. Secretly take it with you when you go out for a drink with a friend. Sit at a table, bask in the enchanting baskery of your friends confetti hearted conversation. When your chum (finally) goes to the toilet for a spot of nature, take this pink poppet out and look at it. Take a pen out of your pocket or bag while you’re at it. Reread...
Noam Chomsky vs. William F.... →
Noam Chomsky vs. William F. Buckley Debate
Most people don’t kno... →
“ Most people don’t know what they want unless they see it in context. ” Dan Ariely
High food prices may force UN's aid rationing →
The price of rice and wheat has doubled in the past year while freight costs have also increased sharply on the back of rising fuel prices.
Unwell →
$75,000 dollar anti-gravity... →
$75,000 dollar anti-gravity treadmill
Photo album →
A photo of Bill Cosby throwing a snowball at you. A photo of that snowball getting struck by lightning. A photo of Bill Cosby with two thumbs up next to a neon sign that says: That snowball would’ve hit you in the fucking face. A photo of Bill Cosby getting struck by lightning. A photo of Bill Cosby with two thumbs up, in a hospital bed. A photo of Bill Cosby which everyone says is definitely a...
Telegraph | Picture Gallery | SONY WORLD... →
Telegraph | Picture Gallery | SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS: NATURE
奇想天外生物図鑑&... →
奇想天外生物図鑑 カラパイア:ソニーワールドフォトグラフ賞、ネイチャー部門受賞作品 - livedoor Blog（ブログ）
すずらん (via kakki**) →
すずらん (via kakki**)
Maps catalogue →
Free GPSMapEdit .MP and Garmin .BIN
“There is no justification for violence, no one must dare to justify it with a...”
– Boris Tadić
Cherrylicious futab →
Cherrylicious futab. (via Dyxie Shuttlecock)
No Country for Old Men: book review →
Cormac McCarthy’s new novel simmers with murder, relentless evil, and foreboding
Killing Joke →
Ethan and Joel Coen may be the first major filmmakers since Preston Sturges to exploit the dramatic possibilities of stupidity.
All Made Up →
Women’s application of makeup is an update of the Narcissus myth. One cannot apply it — or at least not well — without looking in a mirror. The self-reflexive gaze required has elements of the lover’s gaze: Eyes and lips are focal points and demand the most attention and care. Thus, applying makeup is a ritual of self-love, a kind of worship at the shrine of the self, though it can also reflect...
The five stages of drunkenness
Stage 1 - CLEVER
This is when you suddenly become an expert on every subject in the known universe. You know you know everything and you want to pass on your knowledge to anyone who will listen. At this stage you are always right. And, of course, the person you are talking to is very wrong. This makes for an interesting argument when both parties are CLEVER.
Stage 2 - ATTRACTIVE
This is...
Fruitless →
Imagine an invisible red apple. Now imagine an invisible green apple. Now imagine no apples at all. No apples in the world ever. A universe without apples. Now imagine trying to draw an apple in that universe. Now imagine me handing you an apple in that universe. Now imagine how that would make you feel. Now imagine me telling you it’s ok, it’s fine. It’s only fruit. Now imagine...
Shallow →
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February 21, 2008 →
phun - 2D physics sandbox →
Download Phun here. (thank you Bengt)
International Mother Language Day →
Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage.
Iraqi Researcher Defies Scientific Axioms →
The Earth Is Flat and Much Larger than the Sun (Which Is Also Flat)
Man Falls Backwards Down Concrete Stairs and... →
One witnesses said it was the most humorous thing he has ever seen. He recalled Garrett flipping around backwards, falling down the concrete stairs, and then screaming, “My violin.”
Poverty mars formation of infant brains →
Neuroscientists claimed that many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development.
MAD MEN - Set Design Photo Gallery →
Telekinesis and Quantum Field Theory →
In the aftermath of the dispiriting comments following last week’s post on the Parapsychological Association, it seems worth spelling out in detail the claim that parapsychological phenomena are inconsistent with the known laws of physics. The main point here is that, while there are certainly many things that modern science does not understand, there are also many things that it does understand,...
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Tumview - not enough memory / ku →
Tumview - not enough memory / ku