July 2008
51 posts
50 Beautiful Feminine Illustrations and Artworks →
Fourteen Passive-Aggressive Appetizers →
Yoni Brenner in The New Yorker:
1. Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with herbs and bake until crusty; serve to everyone but Jeff.
Thomas Kuhn →
Profile at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Arrogant, offensive phone messages
The Periodic Table of Videos →
Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.
Hidden Tap →
Hidden Tap by Jelmer Moorman: Not only does the flow of water follow your hand movement from side to side, but it also adjust the temperature as it shifts.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart... →
Himself, he never took too seriously — his work most seriously. He regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart, the star, with…
The United Artists →
La United Artists, fue fundada por el 5 de febrero de 1919 por cuatro grandes de Hollywood: Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford y David Wark Griffith.
'Mum, why is everything so ugly?' →
Misha Glenny is impressed by a poignant memoir of growing up in communist east Europe
Reality TV Friendship
I’m so glad somebody put this together.(via)
Imagine no yard sales. Imagine a world where every product you buy can be given...
– Imagine What Comes After Green
Priceless
Nature is amazing: Gordian worms →
Gordian worms live inside crickets. Once fully grown, they inject chemicals into the cricket’s brain, brainwashing it and forcing it to kill itself by jumping into water. Once in water, the worm…
Mechanical Atom-Smacker →
Northern life →
The Norwegian town where dying is forbidden
Colorful ‘Kids’ Toys →
It might not be the speech-act you thought it was →
My credit-card company has developed a new scheme for trying to trick me with speech-acts. It’s likely that you’ve heard roughly this pitch before, especially if you are lucky enough to work at home…
some handy latin phrases
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat. It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit! God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris. If Caesar were alive, you’d be chained to an oar.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could...
Magnetic Movie by Semiconductor.
And remember, there aren’t any such thing as magnetic charges. (via)
Newspapers will run a headline: ‘Shark kills human.’ You never see a headline...
– Gary Larson (via)
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
– Albert Camus (via)
Gays of Future Past →
This is a long clip, but it’s truly sublime, a testament to verbal flair of one of the greatest confirmed bachelors to ever venture forth into outer space: Dr Zachary Smith!
More and more, it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
– Chuck Palahniuk (via danhacker)
Astrud Gilberto Agua De Beber →
Astrud Gilberto Agua De Beber
Montenegro is a weird little country. They speak Serbian, write in Cyrillic, put...
– Matt Zeitlin
Battle of the Species (via)
S1 MP3 Player Firmware Tools →
Software for the MP3 players with an 8-bit Z80 based ATJ2085 (or ATJ2051, ATJ2087, AMP2085) core processor.
Edison – Failure of the Year →
Edison – Failure of the Year
Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters →
Fox News featured photos of Steinberg and Reddicliffe that appeared to have been digitally altered — the journalists’ teeth had been yellowed, their facial features exaggerated, and portions of Reddicliffe’s hair moved further back on his head.
Moebius Redux [46min] (via The Art... →
Moebius Redux [46min] (via The Art Department)
Moebius Redux takes extraordinary visual paths in documentary filmmaking and goes on a mind-bending tour of imagination past, present and…
Mojo The Teller →
Think on your feet Every now and then, while standing in a bank, I’ll consider robbing it. I think it’s the security camera that does it. It’s sort of like a challenge. The same thing happens to…
Balloon Lift →
Balloon Lift with Lighter than Air Gases
Online white noise generator →
Aid Sleep
Enhance Privacy
Block Distractions
Mask Tinnitus
Configure Audio Equipment
Soothe Migraines
and more…
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the...
– Erica Jong (via simko)
Unfortunately people can have ideas at the same time.
– Power of Information Task Force
Let me be clear about this, I don’t have a drugs problem, I have a police...
– Keith Richards (via)
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