March 2008
118 posts
Freebies →
My new book of short fiction (£8.99) comes with a few freebies. Not marketing ploys. Essentials. First: A pair of socks. Chunky. Cashmere. Orange. Innocent. Healthy. Confident. Snug. Mutual. …
German Hilltop Town →
“German Hilltop Town”
chateau 2 →
“chateau 2”
no description →
“no description”
suwaowalog:
(via konrad) →
suwaowalog: (via konrad)
Plastic bag animals →
Lovely Plastic bag animals made from discarded bags that inflate when the subway goes under the grating, via NOTCOT.
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Прикольная фотоподборка (77 фото) » Приколы ::... →
Прикольная фотоподборка (77 фото) » Приколы :: Картинки, видео приколы, анекдоты, свежий юмор на ZizA.rU
Single Kirk →
Everybody reads the first line, I try to jam it with intrigue. Ten percent move on to the second. Ten percent. I know. It gets worse. By the sixth, there’s usually only two people loitering. You…
[video] Alan Alda →
on the Paul O’Grady Show 2005
261 - The Civil War and the Death of... →
In 1852, when New Mexico was at its newest, the territory bearing that name was more than double the size of the eponymous present-day state. Of the many changes that were to follow, none…
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart... →
The International Phonetic Alphabet - Audio... →
Nature's Awful Beauty →
J. Scott Turner in American Scientist:
Consider the swallow, which industriously builds its nest by gathering straw and mud and then molding the mixture. Who can watch this process and…
Crime data bonanza!!! →
So you think you know how to analyze time series! Well, how would you like to test your mettle on over 400,000 time series, each with up to 540 data points? The time series in question are monthly data from 1960-2004, for over 17,000 police departments, for seven crime types (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, vehicle theft), as well as their sum (the so-called Crime...
Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages →
Evolving the Wow! Factor →
Over at the NYT, Oliva Judson’s third piece on mutations:
There are several reasons for this neglect of the benign [mutations]. One — dare
I say it — is fashion. In the late 1960s, the…
“The magic of the microscope is not that it makes little creatures larger, but...”
– Asher E. Treat - Mites of Moths and Butterflies
False Advertising →
Pundo3000.com is a German website that conducted a study to compare 100 actual products with the advertising imagery on the box. It’s pretty appalling to see the dramatically droopy…
tulips (via tamjpn) →
tulips (via tamjpn)
Apple: Huge Goof, Jobs, Entire Board To Resign →
The reflection clearly* reads Macy Gray. Thanks to Luciano in Brazil. Original here. * for low values of ‘clearly’
(via zebramachine) →
(via zebramachine)
(via feanne) →
(via feanne)
dezeen » Blog Archive » Saint Cyprien VTHR by... →
dezeen » Blog Archive » Saint Cyprien VTHR by Serero
水は不要！ お部屋で森林地帯気分を味わおう「Leaf Magnets」 : Gizmodo... →
水は不要！ お部屋で森林地帯気分を味わおう「Leaf Magnets」 : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）
The brain from top to bottom →
Justice - DVNO →
ABD 3D →
(via red / todayandtomorrow)
Tales of Mere Existence ... →
Tales of Mere Existence – “Subtext”
Cosmic blast 7.5 billion years old, seen with... →
Gamma ray bursts occur when huge stars use up all their fuel and their core collapses, forming black holes or neutron stars that release bursts of gamma rays, ejecting particles into space at nearly…
Entering Exotic Characters →
Unicode character names with codepoints, HTML entities, OS keyboard mappings, clickable script character maps, font resources
retro prints by ~pinkandfluffy on deviantART →
retro prints by ~pinkandfluffy on deviantART
WatchColbert Report with Dean Kamen talking about his vapor compression distiller.
“Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we...”
– Bertrand Russell - History of Western Philosophy
the duel →
At their best politicians can be hugely entertaining. All, though some more consciously than others, are by nature performers. They can affect anger, indignation and sensitivity at…
[video] Cell animation →
The Repression Artist →
By making this self-mutilation so horribly everyday, Haneke ensures its obscenity. Unlike the classic Hollywood “reveal”—Orson Welles’s “rosebud” being the most iconic example—Erika’s secret is not…
(via talvezvolaras) →
(via talvezvolaras)
» Creative Custom Die Cuts on Business Cards →
» Creative Custom Die Cuts on Business Cards
Folding, flexing paper models →
Prepared to be mezMOrized by the “kinetic geometries” of this flat-fold paper model. Flat Fold Paper Models [Thanks, Patti!]
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