Daily Meh

Are There Really Continents of Floating...

Dec 31st

“But when he was tihnkin, zomg, a WallCat frm Ceiling Cat was...”
— Matthew 1:20 in cat pidgin....

Dec 31st

Screengrab! :: Firefox Add-ons

Dec 31st

Cheer-Up Cartoon Playing Cards

Dec 30th

Like many PDAs of its time, the Apple Newton was butt-ugly.

Dec 30th

Idi Amin

Dec 30th

Bad water kills more children than war. Unicef ad campaign.

Dec 30th

Fourth on Lake Austin, via Stuck in Customs, by way of an...

Dec 30th

Copyright 'Allah'

Dec 30th

THE FIRST CITIES:Why Settle Down? The Mystery...

Dec 30th

Inside Norway's ''Doomsday'' Seed Vault

Dec 30th

2007 Logo Trends

Dec 29th

The Purple Nurple Optical Illusion; Optical illusion by...

Dec 29th

Cyanide and Happiness (full). By the way, I might have...

Dec 29th

Optimus Tactus keyboard: Optimus Tactus does not have...

Dec 29th

Baby hatch

Dec 29th

Netscape Browser to Die a Quiet Death in...

Dec 29th

IP Spotting - How interesting is your IP...

Dec 28th

Bhutto Front Pages

Dec 28th

“I’m nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday....”
— Kicking and Screaming (1995)....

Dec 28th

“If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting,...”
— Edgar Allan Poe, The...

Dec 28th

What’s In A Name?

Dec 28th

“Waterworld”, via Szymon.

Dec 28th

Slave whipped after attempting to escape, 1863, via Old...

Dec 28th

Ach, those damn 110 year old kids!

Dec 27th

Movie poster recently banned by the MPAA. I can laugh about...

Dec 27th

Obituary: Benazir Bhutto

Dec 27th

Benazir Bhutto 'killed in blast'

Dec 27th

Told or Known - 2007 ToKTA: Food for Thought - Multifaceted...

Dec 27th

“Reading a book on general physics should be like going to a...”
— Motion Mountain: The Adventure...

Dec 26th

Motion Mountain - The Adventure of Physics :...

Dec 26th

The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters

Dec 26th

“Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the...”
— From the original interview...

Dec 26th

Kinds of Type Systems

Dec 26th

Heard the one about reading in dim light...

Dec 25th

Interview with "Persepolis" Co-directors...

Dec 25th

Sorry, drooling geeks

2008 won’t be the year of the semantic web. Saying this year will be is like saying this year...

Dec 25th

Soldiers Against War — The Story of the World...

Dec 25th

Um…what?

Dec 25th

Freaking Impossible Mario

Dec 25th

World War I Christmas Truce

Dec 25th

Picturing Business in America

Dec 24th

MIT spinoff's little green laptop computers a...

Dec 24th

I want _why (who coined the term “tumblelog” and wrote the craziest programming book...

Dec 24th

Christmas card from Rob Sheridan. Merry Christmas. Also...

Dec 24th

Let it snow! by Sekator. I was hoping for a white Christmas,...

Dec 24th

Merry Christmas, Winter Solstice, ...

…or any other variety you happen to celebrate. As can be expected, posting frequency may dip a...

Dec 24th

Is there an opposite to absolute zero?

Dec 24th

Would You Bet $100,000,000 on Your Pet...

Dec 23rd

Stuart Jeffries on the fight of philosophers

Dec 23rd

The poo-poo terrorist has been arrested

Dec 23rd

The Most Hated Holiday Song in the World

Dec 23rd

Satirical map of Europe from 1870. Scotland, England and...

Dec 23rd

The guy that nearly got his eyes clawed out stayed in the...

Dec 23rd

9/11 conspiracy theories diff

Dec 22nd

Motion aftereffect - Wikipedia, the free...

Dec 22nd

Haskell Communities and Activities Report

Dec 22nd

Photoshop an election campaign poster for a...

Dec 22nd

Links to other Best [speculative fiction] of...

Dec 22nd

Life at 630 Lbs: 'I Didn't Leave the House'

Dec 22nd

The Total Stupidity of Crowds: Bad Mortgages...

Dec 22nd

From The waterfall trap for “agile” projects. I don’t...

Dec 22nd

Astonomy Picture of the Day: Horizon to...

Dec 22nd

Unix makes Computer Science easy

Dec 22nd

Note to Self

nostrich (who stubbornly prefers lower-case): ok listenq listen ok i am drunk11! ok? and...

Dec 22nd

Creationists plan British theme park

Dec 21st

What a Lakota nation would look like. Full.

Dec 21st

“The MIT CS grad students’ handbook used to say...”
— Mark Dominus.

Dec 20th

Unconscious Research of Global Consciousness

Dec 20th

50 answers

Dec 20th

Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't...

Dec 20th

The Daily Mammal

Dec 20th

From I Can’t Believe My Eyes: Conforming to the Norm....

Dec 19th

The following things have been accomplished...

Dec 19th

Synchronized Global Orgasm for Peace

Dec 19th

Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007

Dec 19th

“At this point in time, tumblelogging feels a lot like what...”
— What is this, 1999?. I also...

Dec 19th

Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone

Dec 19th

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of...”
— C.S. Lewis. In other words,...

Dec 19th

Duke Nukem Forever Teaser Debuts on Shacknews

Dec 19th

English would be so much better if it retained the distinction between you and thou. In my...

Dec 19th

British History Timeline

Dec 19th

Movie News: Jackson and New Line agree to...

Dec 19th

Iron maiden (torture device)

Dec 18th

David Byrne's Survival Strategies for...

Dec 18th

The Plan

I bet if I start Memepedia, dedicated to the study of memes in the wild, I could get the Richard...

Dec 18th

Websites As Graphs is an applet that graphs websites...

Dec 18th

O! by The Pack.

Dec 18th

The trouble with five

Dec 18th

Some Not-So-Usual Photos

Dec 18th

I can already see Nokia’s next campaign in my...

Dec 17th

Actors gunned down while filming crime caper

Dec 17th

Palestinian children play with toy guns on the outskirts of...

Dec 17th

From the Reuters Best of the Year collection. Indonesian...

Dec 17th

Pictures of the Year 2007

Dec 17th

Steganography

I came up with a novel method of steganography (the art of hiding messages), but after some...

Dec 17th

Russo-Japanese War

Dec 17th

“The best Internet technologies are like super powers. IM /...”
— So says Aaron White....

Dec 17th

Ugly can of worms illustration from here. Opera has...

Dec 17th

The True Meaning of Christmas from We the Robots.

Dec 17th

Cats Can Has Grammar

Dec 17th

The Django Book

Dec 16th

Thanks Travors.

Dec 16th

Emasculated of power, by Buki, from here. Thanks Szymon.

Dec 16th

Font Wall

Dec 16th

Yes, Virginia

Dec 16th

I watched The Man from Earth, and it matched my expectations. There are no special effects, only one...

Dec 16th

FreeRice

Dec 15th

LOLshevik by Richard Winchell (there’s a pool of them...

Dec 15th

The Man from Earth (2007)

Dec 15th

This is the “brilliant” recycle icon I’ve...

Dec 15th

The etiquette of telecommunications

Dec 15th

Magic number (programming)

Dec 15th

Google takes on Wikipedia - RTÉ News

Dec 15th

How a color blind person sees the world

Dec 15th

Garfield with Garfield's thoughts and speech...

Dec 14th

Extraordinary spelling, and extraordinary design skills, and...

Dec 14th

1530 Main, Dallas, Texas, from flickr (pictured from below).

Dec 14th

Brilliantly wrong

Dec 14th

The Loneliest Mystery of the Deep

Dec 14th

Did it ever occur to this blogger that imitating an OS X...

Dec 14th

Rational exploration of the undersea: irrational walk by...

Dec 14th

“I send a “hello” email to everyone I begin following,...”
— Andrea Allen. Now that would...

Dec 14th

DNA Pioneer’s Genome Blurs Race Lines

Dec 13th

Porn For Girls By Girls

Dec 13th

Six Sentences: Building The Perfect Lolcat

Dec 13th

Murphy's law application for antigravitatory...

Dec 13th

Domain name woes

I’m trying to find a good domain name that won’t sound lame a few years down the road,...

Dec 13th

Opera files complaint — an open letter to the...

Dec 13th

Add and delete vertical space in measured...

Dec 13th

“I am, however, working on rolling this design into a tumblr...”
— Paul Giacherio plans to...

Dec 13th

That thing is like a comet, except it’s a star, with a...

Dec 13th

Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence

Dec 13th

Finished laughing? Yeah, me too. Let’s be serious...

Dec 13th

My Book World Edition 1 TB Hard Drives

Dec 13th

Game Design as Narrative Architecture

Dec 12th

The Daily WTF

Dec 12th

All the News That's Fit to Depress

Dec 12th

“The way I see it: blogging is easy; content is hard. As long...”
— Wise words from Bill Israel.

Dec 12th

“I can rant for days on all the interesting code I’ve...”
— Reddit comment. Wow.

Dec 12th

Constructivist Foundations

Dec 12th

Things I wish I didn’t see

Dec 12th

The problem with tumblelogging

Dec 12th

陳 Jon Tan

Dec 11th

Gary Webb's Enduring Legacy

Dec 11th

Andrew Loomis in Illustration Magazine

Dec 11th

Do websites need to look exactly the same in...

Dec 11th

Monsters of the Programming World

Dec 11th

What's on Your Bookshelf?

Dec 11th

Latin You Should Know

Dec 11th

Tumbling

Dec 11th

Jdubblog: The buses in Buenos Aires belong in Roger Rabbit....

Dec 11th

Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day: 12-8-7

Dec 11th

Ninjawords

Dec 11th

Save Mister Splashy Pants!

Dec 10th

On not winning the Nobel Prize

Dec 10th

Geek Test

Dec 10th

“It’s a foolish thing for the teller of a story to...”
— Philip Pullman.

Dec 10th

Over to you

Dec 10th

“The Internet is like the opposite of apathy. Somebody cares.”
— … (yes, that’s...

Dec 10th

By J.Ota. Nice and gloomy.

Dec 10th

Internetville (full size.) I’ve no idea who made it,...

Dec 9th

What "Psychopath" Means

Dec 9th

What has the Latin alphabet done to make...

The original Latin alphabet looked very much like today’s uppercase letters. Recently,...

Dec 9th

Fail.

Dec 9th

“I really love X-mas. Notice how I spelled it there? I don’t...”
— KITSUNE NOIR. Well, the...

Dec 9th

If all stories were written like science...

Dec 9th

“If the USA had completely ignored the 9/11 attack - just...”
— Overcoming Bias: When None...

Dec 9th

Bunny Suicides via Told or Known. I have the book....

Dec 9th

The Machine Girl

Dec 9th

Do we need a literary canon? by Richard...

Dec 9th

Fawnt

Dec 9th

Slutbot aces Turing Test*

Dec 8th

I love this sort of street painting.

Dec 8th

Language Log: It's like, so unfair

Dec 8th

The Acadamy of Linguistic Awarness, which likes comma...

Dec 8th

What the UK has never done for me, take...

Nostrich: Crosswords, however, definitely are a British invention. They first appeared in England...

Dec 8th

What the UK has never done for me

The UK government likes to take credit, it seems. Nowadays, they invented the iPod and the internet...

Dec 8th

Nordic Countries Best Place to Live in the...

Dec 8th

Shootz Café and Billiards. More here. Hat tip to kariratum.

Dec 7th

New Theme

Dec 7th

Chess in Khanty-Mansiysk

Dec 7th

I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!

Dec 7th

“Deleting your Facebook is the new Facebook.”
— Adam Lisagor (not Jason...

Dec 7th

Pacman elections

Dec 7th

A creative collective called The Glue Society has depicted...

Dec 7th

Via marco via evie.

Dec 6th

perl.com: Programming is Hard, Let's Go...

Dec 6th

Ancient income inequality

Dec 6th

Kids' misconceptions about numbers -- and how...

Dec 6th

Newton? Einstein? Morons!

Dec 6th

Government of the Republic of Novegrad

Dec 6th

Eruption

I just learned that the Icelandic word for soda is gosdrykkur, which means “eruption...

Dec 6th

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Dec 5th

“A family member of mine studying maths kind of skipped the...”
— Reddit comment.

Dec 5th

Tumblrs, Who's Reblogging You?

Dec 5th

Here’s a list of the 10 worst PC keyboards evar. Truth...

Dec 5th

The Golden Compass review

Dec 5th

Respecting Somebody's Smartness

Jakob Lodwick: I was thinking to myself, “Maybe I should ask the Tumblr guys to add a...

Dec 5th

Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet - Research

Dec 5th

unpopsci

There needs to be a unpopular-science magazine to complement all the pop-sci magazines out there....

Dec 5th

“if you weren’t planning to see the movie anyway, you can’t...”
— Not A Blog™ (thx).

Dec 5th

When Insults Had Class

Dec 4th

People who use /away constantly suck ass

Dec 4th

Pixel Christmas Tree (hat tip, noooop).

Dec 4th

“Sometimes, trying to weave your code into a single return...”
— Matt Stephens.

Dec 4th

Invisible Book Shelf, a guide. (via.)

Dec 4th

Underground ‘terrorists’ with a mission to...

Dec 4th

#tumblrs @ irc.freenode.net stats

Dec 4th

Chimp beats students at computer game

Dec 4th

From Faces in Places, a photographic collection of faces...

Dec 4th

Ablative, Allative, Adessive, Obsessive

Dec 4th

Via Told or known (or tumbled).

Dec 4th

Applying for a US Visa

Dec 4th

Boltzmann brain

Dec 3rd

Ludum Dare

Dec 3rd

Boltzmann's Anthropic Brain

Dec 3rd

I feel welcome. I really do.

Dec 3rd

Come on in, the water's lovely

Dec 3rd

Yes, I think we can all agree that Toothpaste for dinner is...

Dec 3rd

Astronauts test sex in space

Dec 3rd

Why the BBC Fails at the Internet

Dec 3rd

Tumblr t-shirt idea 2 by soxiam. (Idea #1.)

Dec 3rd

Viral, baby!

Is it just me, or is an animated gif of a baby in a tunnel not all that exciting?

Dec 3rd

reAnimator: Regular Expression FSA Visualizer

Dec 3rd

From Twisted Intellect: I don’t know which is worse - using...

Dec 3rd

The Jakob Nielsen Drinking Game

Dec 2nd

Toothpaste For Dinner - "The most addictive...

Dec 2nd

Religious furor over 'The Golden Compass'

Dec 2nd

echo-chambers and homophily

Dec 2nd

Astronomers Destroy Universe

Dec 2nd

White neon, by Stefan Bruggemann. Via nik.

Dec 2nd

Juicy Studio: Readability Test

Dec 2nd

Enough With The Rainbow Tables: What You Need...

Dec 2nd

Art Frahm

Dec 2nd

French unsure when to turn the other cheek

Dec 2nd

Outside In

Dec 1st

Double-checking Dawkins

Dec 1st

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