Daily Meh: Archive

Skeidarársandur, Iceland, from this collection of nice...

Dec 1st

From an old wartime information/propaganda poster. Could...

Dec 1st

Time of day means little on the web

Erik Naggum makes a good point here, in the essay I linked to earlier: It is amusing that when...

Dec 1st

The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Dec 1st

The Ministry of Type

Dec 1st

Layer Tennis, Week 10

Dec 1st

Pope Criticizes Atheism in Encyclical

Dec 1st

A Long, Painful History of Time

Dec 1st

From the webcomic We The Robots. It’s pretty new, so...

Dec 1st

Any consensus on 'responsible' linklogging?

Dec 1st

543

That’s how many posts I’ve made in the life of this tumblelog. Perhaps it’s a tad...

Nov 28th

[Python-Dev] Proper tail recursion

Nov 28th

psDooM: DooM for Sys A's

Nov 28th

website needs traffic? an empirical study of...

Nov 27th

A farewell to |ash|’s old camera.

Nov 27th

“I have a meta-theory of design that says that if you...”
— Kent Pitman.

Nov 27th

Greenpeace - Making Waves: Mister Splashy...

Nov 27th

FollowOnTumblr

Memes make the world go ‘round. These are the ones I currently follow: ...

Nov 27th

The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

Nov 27th

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt

Nov 27th

Iceland best place to live, Africa worst

Nov 27th

Seven hottest web 1.0 techniques to trick out...

Nov 27th

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

Nov 27th

By Joe Baran.

Nov 27th

brocatus: Design challenge: design a business card-sized...

Nov 27th

Lots of helpful links for webdesigners

Nov 26th

Painting 2.0

Nov 26th

Rejecta Mathematica

Nov 26th

100 Notable Books of the Year - 2007 - New...

Nov 26th

Today’s xkcd.

Nov 26th

The Big Sleep

Nov 25th

Learn the language that can thwart evil!

Nov 25th

Colors! and Inchworm: digital painting...

Nov 25th

The Reality Club: TAKING SCIENCE ON FAITH

Nov 25th

Mystery of German exploding toads

Nov 25th

Swim, by lil.

Nov 25th

Famous Uncracked Codes

Nov 25th

North America, the Balkans Version

Nov 25th

CIA World Factbook

Nov 25th

Age-old question pushes scientists to step...

Nov 24th

You’ve probably seen this before: one of the first...

Nov 24th

We talk to young people who have been...

Nov 24th

Parting words for dear friends

Nov 24th

Revista: No point in this

Nov 24th

Luis Posada Carriles

Nov 24th

Chinese Buddhist monk, from Aperture foundation.

Nov 23rd

Report on the Symposium: Role of Setting

Nov 22nd

Banach–Tarski paradox

Nov 22nd

The Continuous World of Dungeon Siege

Nov 22nd

The LOLCODE forum...

Nov 22nd

“Bourne Shell Server Pages are ordinary ASCII text files,...”
— Bourne Shell Server Pages.

Nov 22nd

Some Questions About Moral Paradoxes

Nov 22nd

Condom ashtray, via Szymon.

Nov 22nd

The Simple Truth

Nov 21st

The 10 people you'll find in any gym

Nov 20th

An Intuitive Guide To Exponential Functions &...

Nov 20th

Does perfect code exist? (Abstractions, Part...

Nov 20th

WASD versus up, down, left and right. Via nikography.

Nov 20th

EU warns Kosovo on independence

Nov 20th

Enough With The Lists

Nov 20th

The Computer that Swore

Nov 20th

Let's talk about frameworks (again)

Nov 20th

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

Nov 20th

“Science, however, cannot create ends and, even less, instill...”
— Take it from the man, Albert...

Nov 20th

The Future of Reading

Nov 20th

One Ring To Rule Them All, Mate, Middle-Earth transposed on...

Nov 20th

Somehow, I had trouble accessing several sites I frequent, including Tumblr, today. Which is a...

Nov 19th

How Many HTML Elements Can You Name in 5...

Nov 19th

Zip and Li'l Bit

Nov 19th

Growing Up

Nov 19th

Mashable: Amazon Announces Kindle eBook...

Nov 19th

Mind of a Rock

Nov 18th

Pastor in Microsoft 'gay rights' share bid

Nov 18th

Who are these guys and why do they keep popping up in my...

Nov 18th

No, the man isn’t abnormally small, he’s just...

Nov 18th

Equation bookshelf, via nostrich.

Nov 18th

What’s not to love about CSS frameworks?

Nov 18th

A.Q. Khan's Atomic Vision

Nov 18th

Obituary: God

Nov 18th

zetahydrae: 5.0 - A flagpole wanders.

Nov 18th

degenerative

Nov 17th

In Response To: Dear Tumblrs

Nostrich writes: I have a request. I’m in the process of doing a little personal...

Nov 17th

Crayon physics deluxe

Nov 17th

Google as a password cracker

Nov 17th

Möbius transformations revealed

Nov 16th

Timothy Leary

Nov 16th

A Radiometric Dating Resource List

Nov 16th

Still from “Möbius transformations revealed”.

Nov 16th

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of...

Nov 16th

Why Did Symbolics Fail?

Nov 16th

Upside down church by Jeffery Simpson.

Nov 16th

Old Clams, Transparent Frogs, and Wordsworth

Nov 16th

dreams of flying

Nov 15th

An Anarchist FAQ

Nov 15th

Strikes cause transport chaos in France and...

Nov 15th

Colossus cracks codes once more

Nov 15th

The Absolutely Scariest Colors Imaginable

Nov 15th

Every program respects my basic computer literacy. Only...

Nov 15th

Moral Non-Naturalism

Nov 15th

“People, Ruby isn’t a game. It isn’t a hobby. It’s...”
— Why the Lucky Stiff, in...

Nov 15th

Terror crackdown: Passengers forced to answer...

Nov 14th

Haha. You might have seen this around, but I can’t...

Nov 14th

Formerly, the Sun was the largest object in the Solar...

Nov 14th

“I have finally started a blog, because I have stories that I...”
— Dan Weinreb’s Weblog explains...

Nov 14th

Is anyone besides me geek enough to think that the “Non-“ would be too closely bound to...

Nov 14th

Myth - Superstition = Truth?

One thing that bothers me, as a person looking from the outside in on historians and their work, is...

Nov 14th

“The details are a bit hazy, but I think I was dreaming about...”
— Marco.

Nov 14th

Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School (their homepage,...

Nov 14th

Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School

Nov 14th

Real Geek Heart Beats in Xkcd's Stick Figures

Nov 14th

Math humor

My math teacher told the driest joke of the year, today: Assume ε < 0. [Cue laughter] ...

Nov 14th

Four color theorem - Wikipedia, the free...

Nov 13th

reCAPTCHA

Nov 13th

“Beginning writers are always told a lie, a convenient lie, a...”
— Jeff VanderMeer.

Nov 13th

PoliticsForum Quiz v2.0

Nov 13th

From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm

Nov 13th

Your Creation Museum Report

Nov 13th

Introducing Evening Tea

As promised, I’ve updated my theme, and made it available for use by everyone. I’ve...

Nov 13th

19th Century High-Tech

Nov 13th

“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in...”
— George Lucas, via...

Nov 12th

“Although no one on [The Onion’s] staff admits to...”
— Peeling the Onion. (Via...

Nov 12th

Today has been a slow day here, because I’ve been busy, and the web-time I’ve had has...

Nov 12th

Proud atheists: Steven Pinker, Rebecca...

Nov 11th

Exile to the center of the Earth - part 2/2

Nov 11th

“If you’ve got a seriously shy nerd on your hands, try this:...”
— Rands In Repose: The Nerd...

Nov 11th

NYGirlOfMyNightmares.com

Nov 10th

“There are 10 kinds of programming languages. The kind that...”
— Punchjudy.

Nov 10th

Academic Journals

I wish less of the great academic material out there was hidden behind the impenetrable (well, to...

Nov 10th

Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons

Nov 10th

LingBuzz

Nov 10th

Academic Journals

I wish less of the great academic material out there was hidden behind the impenetrable (well, to...

Nov 10th

Too Much Nick

Nov 10th

Scientific Laws Have Equations

Nov 10th

Not-quite-Unix-Like OSes

Nov 9th

How likely are chance resemblances between...

Nov 9th

Why are there so many guns in Finland?

Nov 9th

The Animal Kingdom in Ultra-Hi-Res: Creature by Andrew...

Nov 9th

Linguistic determinism

Nov 9th

Excellent Free Fonts for Professional Design

Nov 9th

The end of online stupidity

Nov 8th

“PROVIDENCE, RI—The third-person limited omniscient voice, a...”
— From The Onion.

Nov 8th

Teenage Killer Leaves Suicide Note

Nov 8th

Postsingular, a Novel by Rudy Rucker

Nov 8th

New animal sports

Nov 8th

Moonrise (via energyface via `Bobesh).

Nov 7th

An economist solves the mysteries of dating

Nov 7th

Mount Egmont Volcano, from 11 phenomenal images of earth.

Nov 7th

“There’s no better way to kill a project than to announce it...”
— Anarchaia.

Nov 7th

Toward Fin de siecle Ethics: Some Trends

Nov 7th

Doxastic logic - Wikipedia, the free...

Nov 7th

I sound like what in Japanese?...

Nov 7th

I sound like what in Japanese?...

Nov 7th

Quicksilver is open source

Nov 7th

Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei

Nov 6th

If Social Networking Sites *Really* Wanted to...

Nov 6th

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Nov 6th

Ah, it’s easy if you cheat. Haiku should contain a...

Nov 6th

The Language of Defeat

Nov 6th

“We used to joke that the problem writing a C compiler for...”
— Reddit comment.

Nov 5th

It's official: Google announces open-source...

Nov 5th

Twin girl with eight limbs to have surgery

Nov 5th

“Theorem: Consider the set of all sets that have never been...”
— SELF-REFERENCE JOKES (hat...

Nov 5th

Martian Colors

Nov 5th

Ironic Sans: The Constitutionality of...

Nov 5th

From tantin. I wonder about that equation. Apple + people =...

Nov 5th

Urban Dictionary: eponysterical

Nov 4th

Daylight saving time around the world: blue means it’s...

Nov 4th

Lessons In Electric Circuits

Nov 4th

Heuristic for assessing democracy

As the state leaders’ compulsion to add “democratic” or any variation thereof to...

Nov 4th

Dear Tumblr,

Why, oh why must you insist on giving me the rich text editor when reblogging, even when I’ve...

Nov 2nd

Actual map of the moon, via strange maps.

Nov 2nd

From Beyond at BLDGBLOG.

Nov 2nd

Exile to the center of the Earth - part 1/2

Nov 2nd

crossed paths

Nov 1st

lines and colors :: a blog about drawing,...

Nov 1st

Jacek Yerka painter of the fantasy worlds

Nov 1st

Inline skates from 1905, from Old Picture of the Day. Truly,...

Nov 1st

Markdown

Tumblr v3 supports markdown. It’s pretty sane. The only thing that sucks about it (and it is...

Nov 1st

Third time’s a charm « Davidville

Nov 1st

The apostrophe: Contrary to popular belief,...

Nov 1st

Cameron responds

Oct 31st

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543

FollowOnTumblr

In Response To: Dear Tumblrs

Myth - Superstition = Truth?

Math humor

Introducing Evening Tea

Academic Journals

Academic Journals

Heuristic for assessing democracy

Dear Tumblr,

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