2008

Jul

The Layers of a City. And its veins. Far from the only...

“It takes a genius to whine appealingly.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald.

“Wouldn’t it be nice if we could stand up now and say, okay,...”
— Warren Ellis (via). Also: The...

Vacation

The best and worst thing a blogger (and by extension, anyone) can do is take a break. It’s the...

Humans could be driving these on the moon by 2020. Cool, eh?...

It appears that Adobe Reader 9 sucks. (News at 11.)

China inspired interrogations at Guantánamo

Amazing New Hyperbolic Chamber Greatest...

Unthinkable Futures

“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for...”
— Bertrand Russell (who would...

Zero feet under by Ian Broyles, via hrrrthrrr.

Ape rights and the myth of animal equality

Jun

Project Indigo: Design of a vertical seaside...

Flamingos at Sunset.

Compulsory Reading

The Nine Billion Names of God

Wordle cloud of Paul Graham’s essays, whose favorite...

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject...”
— Ray Bradbury (via...

Recent internet drama got me thinking. If I have no haters when I die, I’ll know I’ve...

From Alexey Titarenko’s “City of Shadows”,...

Science tumbled

History Project

Retro gaming on real backgrounds. Some of these have been...

How Computers Boot Up

“During World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from...”
— Pablo Picasso quotations.

Via One by One, Shorpy writes: August 21, 1922. Nowhere on...

Little Factory sells laser-cut letter scarves. (via)

I’ve no idea what this is, but I do enjoy looking at...

A mosaic of images from NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity, via...

Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den

The Girl Effect

Twitter / MarsPhoenix

Sweden approves wiretapping law

Brian Romero writes: Inspired by high oil prices and a...

I’m guessing this was supposed to be a birthday...

reddit – Trac

“I’m an accomplished Googler, but I can’t for the life of me...”
— Remiel, via inky.

The Science of Gaydar

100 Thing Challenge

All publicity is good publicity...

I’d like to personally congratulate Mozilla on its fantastic PR stunt. I didn’t hear of...

Apple's open secret: SproutCore is Cocoa for...

3 Species of Nonsense

Auto-Meme: 12 YEAR OLDCAT IS A 12 YEAR OLD Communications from Elsewhere: In the works of Fellini,...

Iwo Jima finally done right (their words, not mine).

Uh, thanks, I guess. (Is this what micro-fame feels like?)

Custom Tumblr Themes

“It is not enough for a wise man to study nature and truth;...”
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie,...

Wikipedia: Lamest edit wars

By R-X, via Arts and Crafts.

Andy Gill: 'Why I hate Coldplay'

Quantum Mechanics and Immortality

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power fills a water...

My Life in a Cube: I got passwords comin’ out my ears over...

“As soon as I came out of the hotel—Yes, now I think I...”
— Excerpt from Nabokov’s...

Slide words (if that's really what they're...

“I have a theory concerning committees. A committee may have...”
— Rob Weir.

Principle of explosion

Socialism, the word.

It doesn’t mean what you think it means. Regards, someone who lives in an actual Social...

Famous moments in Lego, via aja. I’ve seen some of...

Game Design Essentials: 20 Atari Games

Google News Utopia

Flooded promenade.

Black and White and in Color

The Consciousness Conundrum

WebKit has a new javascript interpreter, called...

Japan plans to brew 'space beer'

Lake Aquitaine by Little Asset. It feels nice knowing...

Clever Hans the Math Horse

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
— Jimi Hendrix.

May

Dan of Squashed writes: There are fewer and fewer spaces where it is safe to say idiotic...

Stone Age Tasaday

That’s right, I’m a MAN, says US president.

“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a...”
— David Hume (who, in my mind,...

A t-shirt design by John Campbell, via inky. From the...

Some light art (seen previously).

The poor website was so tired of taking my request, it timed...

Continuity thesis

Spoken Languages, Blub, and Convenience

The Return of Superfly

By Daryl Waller. The Advice to Sink In Slowly shop sells...

What the Ancients saw, Angkor Vat, Cambodia.

Teacher lets Morningside students vote out...

Once again: dead bodies don't cause disease...

Area Man Makes It Through Day

Nik’s rendering of George Orwell’s famous rules...

Black Tie, a theme by Heather Rivers. Nice.

Missives from Possible Futures #1: Alternate...

New York, 1899. Imagine forgetting your hat!

Ted Chiang

A time-travel story showed up on reddit recently, and that led me to Ted Chiang (helpful interview...

Franz Unveils AllegroGraph v3.0 - A Web 3.0...

External Delivery the Future

Cectic, a comic for skeptics.

“The strange thing is that we are not glad when other people...”
— Also from “The Hype...

Bald Knobbers, part of a vigilante group in Missouri in the...

The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of...

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO

BlimLimb, the Travelling Bot Troupe

“We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come...”
— Salman Rushdie, “At the...

Honk If You Love Brijit!

More artificial Finnish

Paint by numbers is a magazine cover meme. Here’s the...

Buttersafe: The Awesome Tree.

Einstein writes of 'childish superstition'

“With no more than six levels of quotation, any statement can...”
— John McCarthy (that was one...

Clip/Stamp/Fold

Empathy

So, I see that Simon Baron-Cohen’s empathy test is making the rounds on Tumblr. That provides...

Seriously, people. Grow up. Who would want to buy anything from someone who doesn’t display...

PBF (come out of semi-retirement, please).

“If you are asking what license this software is released...”
— I must say, the Mu License,...

Thought:

There is an Alcoholics Anonymous, but what the world really needs is Celebrities Anonymous. Of...

Aww. Let’s all be friends.

“So what will you do if string theory is...

Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t...

The day the music died

The Devil's Dictionary

I’m inclined to agree with Marco that these...

Art From the Trenches.

A clock that spells out the time for you. Watch the...

CSS Homer, animated

Lesbians of Lesvos fed up of being called...

Apr

Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the...

“Do unto others before they do unto you.”
— Devil’s Golden Rule...

Do you need any more reasons to learn Swedish? I read the...

Mmmm… One Star-rific!

So, does this mean that the evergoing cycle (1. Create blog...

Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear. (via Strings of...

Hans Reiser is guilty of first-degree murder,...

“I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and...”
— Nikola Tesla.

Assassin's Creed, I can't quit you

The Taxonomy of Cute, by Nicole Peterson (she’s the...

Mass Attack FAQ

InformIT: Interview with Donald Knuth

“The Genographic Project’s findings are also consistent...”
— Human line ‘nearly split...

Linguistic Relativity

One of my pet peeves is the widespread and false belief that language shapes thought, and not the...

Street Art in Lower East Side, from nickgraywfu, via.

Koro: A Natural History of Penis Panics

Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits...

Married To The Sea (via inky)

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever...

Beard alphabet.

Fun with old Atari 2600 games, via metafilter.

Iraq War Coalition Fatalities

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche.

The Norway Vote - What really happened

People's Olympiad

DHH Talk - Startup School 2008

Jörg Block (in full).

Italian convicted for staring at woman on...

Some more barcode art.