Daily Meh

Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

Oct 1st

Radiohead fans to pick album cost

Oct 1st

Nokia ad campaign, full size here.

Oct 1st

...?

How come Smashing Magazine, with its haven of links on web design, usability, typography, and so on,...

Oct 1st

A Neighborhood of Infinity: Arboreal...

Sep 30th

FIFA World Cup Posters

Sep 30th

The obscure game-theory problem that explains...

Sep 30th

“Seriously, everyone… don’t you think the list...”
— Marco.org. My next post will...

Sep 30th

Someone took the original Monkeysphere article and dressed...

Sep 30th

Underground ‘terrorists’ with a mission to...

Sep 30th

Creationism out of the classroom

Sep 30th

Depersonalization

Sep 30th

Cyber Nations, an online nation simulation...

Sep 30th

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either...”
— Baruch Spinoza.

Sep 29th

Do your own thing

Sep 29th

Poster for The Golden Compass. Perhaps it’s time to...

Sep 29th

How to create a language

Sep 29th

Nordhaus and Shellenberger: Two...

Sep 29th

Discordianism

Sep 29th

Coudal Partners' Layer Tennis

Sep 28th

Yes Way, by manmadepants. Also, the website of the lizard...

Sep 28th

More Women Online

Sep 28th

An old ad for an IBM type writer, anno 1935. From the...

Sep 28th

The Museum of Online Museums

Sep 28th

Wouter's programming language page

Sep 28th

Mohammadreza Mirzaei Photography

Sep 27th

Good morning!, by gin_able - strictly against censorship. ...

Sep 27th

The seductive allure of neuroscience...

Sep 27th

Magnetic Vision?

Sep 26th

“In my experience, most tumblelogs don’t last more than...”
— Christian Neukirchen on the...

Sep 26th

The Burma Campaign UK Home Page

Sep 26th

MI5 | Spy Gadgets in World War II

Sep 26th

The Poison NULL byte

Sep 26th

Why a person doesn't evolve in one lifetime -...

Sep 26th

_why showcases a nice image generated by 12 lines of code in...

Sep 26th

Blue Eyes: The Hardest Logic Puzzle in the...

Sep 25th

An Invitation to Higher Dimensional...

Sep 25th

Run away the ray-gun is coming : We test US...

Sep 25th

Seed: Scientific Literacy and the Habit of...

Sep 24th

The User Experience of a Blog

Sep 24th

More pics of anti-government protesters in Burma, from BBC....

Sep 24th

“Duverger’s law is a principle which asserts that a...”
— Duverger’s law on...

Sep 24th

Name that Color

Sep 24th

So, I’ve been reading lots of responses to CD Baby abandoning Ruby/Rails for PHP. The question...

Sep 24th

Tens of thousands of people joined around 10,000 Buddhist...

Sep 24th

National Punctuation Day

Sep 24th

Germany tightens control of Wikipedia edits

Sep 23rd

MIPS-X

Sep 23rd

1GB, 20 years ago and now

Sep 23rd

The Economist ad, from Creative Review. (via)

Sep 23rd

The Dollar in Decline

Sep 23rd

Is this what will become of the Earth’s surface? The...

Sep 23rd

What does next mean?

Sep 23rd

How to Do Philosophy, by Paul Graham

Sep 23rd

2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

Sep 23rd

Inventions I wish existed, part I

I wish there were selective ear plugs. Not just ear plugs that can shield you from specific...

Sep 22nd

Liu Yang, a Chinese-born designer who emigrated to Germany...

Sep 22nd

walk2web

Sep 22nd

The Inner Life of a Cell

Sep 22nd

151 809 bytes

Sep 22nd

Quipsologies

Sep 22nd

Eric Darnell throws his latest creation, the Scimitar—a foam...

Sep 22nd

WWW FAQs: What is the maximum length of a...

Sep 22nd

Taxi: The Programming Language

Sep 22nd

Second Person Narrative

You’re standing in the book store, flipping through some books, when the thought hits you: Why...

Sep 22nd

Y Combinator Tatoo. If I ever get a tatoo, it’s gotta...

Sep 21st

Gymnastics with Onomastics

Sep 21st

Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers

Sep 21st

Revista: Some amazing (wallpaper) artwork. Another great...

Sep 21st

Funafuti atoll, capital of Tuvalu. Unfortunately for the...

Sep 21st

Fontin Sans

Sep 21st

Metamorphosis

As you can see, if you’re not reading this through a feed or the tumblr dashboard, I gave it a...

Sep 21st

Faith smackdown at Wired. Francis Collins, former head of...

Sep 20th

Writing and Failure

Sep 20th

15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography. Part...

Sep 20th

“Sam Brown Beautiful tumblelog-ish design. Runs on...”
— cameron i/o. Is history doomed...

Sep 19th

Unphotographable

Sep 19th

pink tank 4 from The Sizemore McCabe Project.

Sep 19th

Bullied student tickled pink by schoolmates'...

Sep 19th

“BUGS It’s hard to use this command without singing.”
— From the man page of the...

Sep 18th

Cheesy cartoon for a cheesy day.

Sep 18th

muse | a collection of inspiration

Sep 18th

Brooklyn Bridge, showing painters on suspenders, October 7,...

Sep 18th

New York Times to Stop Charging for Parts of...

Sep 17th

State Senator Ernie Chambers Sues God

Sep 17th

Bathroom Stall at Center of Larry Craig...

Sep 17th

definition: misandry

Is hatred of men, like misogyny is of women. Never heard of it before.

Sep 17th

2D projection of a Calabi-Yau manifold, from Wikipedia. They...

Sep 17th

Cover of Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. Via aatw, I...

Sep 17th

Stringscape

Sep 17th

Sorting out Beligum’s mess by letting global warming...

Sep 17th

Lucky escape from crossbow brain injury

Sep 17th

Eternal September

Sep 17th

the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks

Sep 17th

Monoscope

Sep 16th

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a...”
— Godwin’s Law.

Sep 16th

Adelson’s checkerboard illusion. Square A and B have...

Sep 16th

Minus

Sep 16th

Light bulb and rust in an old elevator by Aaron G Stock.

Sep 16th

Arithmetic Game

Sep 16th

Jottit

Sep 16th

Who said programming books have to be boring?

Sep 14th

“It seems to me that Wikipedia is, in effect whether or not...”
— DABlog Reflections on...

Sep 14th

Pictures from the past space mission

Sep 14th

Get my Tumblr theme | Thom Allen Weblog

Sep 14th

NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBO -...

Sep 13th

changeling: Definition

Sep 12th

Bugs Are Magic Tricks

Sep 12th

“Philosophical problems are never solved for the same reason...”
— John P. Burgess, The Analytic...

Sep 12th

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

Sep 12th

Citizens offer new take on news

Sep 12th

What is "life", again?

Sep 12th

Uranus’s rings turning their face towards us. From...

Sep 12th

The Sarong Theorem Archive

Sep 11th

“Thinking about fonts one day, I decided that “Ironic Sans”...”
— Ironic Sans: It Seemed Like A...

Sep 11th

Apple: You have our blessing to hack the...

Sep 11th

Lesson in life and death: pupils build dying...

Sep 11th

Happy Patriot's Day

Sep 11th

“I wanna be the leader I wanna be the leader Can I be the...”
— poem by Roger McGough

Sep 11th

1973 Chilean coup d'état

Sep 11th

Roundhay Garden Scene

Sep 11th

I just discovered that the English language Wikipedia has passed 2 million articles. The first...

Sep 11th

“The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Hua County earthquake...”
— 1556 Shaanxi earthquake.

Sep 11th

PTW won the international design competition to create the...

Sep 10th

“Zeit·geist (tsīt’gīst’, zīt’-) n. The...”
— Zeitgeist: Definition of the...

Sep 10th

The Sound of Internet Drama

Can you hear it? Prophets of all kinds and varieties are trying to divine the future of Tumblr, the...

Sep 10th

When Was The Exact Day Slashdot Jumped The...

Sep 10th

The Monad.Reader issue #8.

Sep 10th

From Hidden method of reading revealed.

Sep 10th

Hypercube, the 4D equivalent of a cube.

Sep 10th

Cool bathrooms at New York's Bar 89

Sep 10th

Crisis in Belgium: If Flanders Secedes Wallonia...

Sep 10th

Skewered

Sep 10th

Dating Pools

Sep 10th

AlterNet: Anti-authoritarian Cities

Sep 10th

Maple leaf structure from wikimedia commons.

Sep 10th

“The wording I chose for that sentence wasn’t clear, as...”
— I got served.

Sep 10th

4D Visualization

Sep 9th

Toward a Higher-Dimensional Wiki

Sep 9th

What about a 4-day work week?

Bill Israel applies a law in reverse, giving results which, if you take them to their logical...

Sep 9th

“Scientists still do not appear to understand sufficiently...”
— Alfred Wegener, the man who...

Sep 9th

Allegedly, the island on the left is in canada, the one on...

Sep 9th

Cubilus

Sep 9th

The Hungry Gulf Crocodile at Strange maps.

Sep 9th

“My take is that a tumblog is a blog. There is absolutely no...”
— Rule Of One. (via.)

Sep 8th

Judging Books by Their Covers

Sep 8th

The Theory of Concatenative Combinators

Sep 8th

Strange island: Pacific tribesmen come to...

Sep 8th

stencilrevolution - The Best Things - Powered by PhotoPost....

Sep 8th

PHYS771 Lecture 10.5: Penrose

Sep 8th

Mattel's "Vibrating" Harry Potter broomstick...

Sep 7th

Identity

At A Brief Message, Debbie Millman writes: We live at a time when every part of the body can be...

Sep 7th

“Does somebody give me prise if I proof, what quantum...”
— flyingoracle. The internet is...

Sep 7th

Documentary spotlights Stalags, Israeli pocket books based...

Sep 7th

Bizarre optical illusion indeed.

Sep 7th

Fourteen years in Dubai.

Sep 6th

YouTube - Kiwi!

Sep 6th

Great moments in punditry: four years later

Sep 6th

Map showing the popularity of football (soccer) in the...

Sep 6th

Is There Anything Good About Men

Sep 6th

Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a...

Sep 6th

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of...”
— Isaac Asimov

Sep 6th

Ron Mueck's Scultpures

Sep 6th

One of the winners of the ICM 2006 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal...

Sep 6th

Image:Blue Hour in Saigon 2007.jpg - Wikimedia Commons, via...

Sep 5th

@revista

Wondering how Tumblr’s image linking works. I don’t upload anything; isn’t that...

Sep 5th

“Optimistic panpsychism: The belief that everything in the...”
— My new just-for-fun philosophy

Sep 5th

A communist nightmare turned true.

Sep 5th

Human-animal embryo study wins approval

Sep 4th

Xenu, as depicted in the 1998 BBC Panorama documentary...

Sep 4th

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

Sep 4th

Escher's "Relativity" in LEGO

Sep 4th

A Lengthy Message About A Brief Message

Sep 4th

Time breakdown of modern web design

Sep 4th

cameron i/o

Sep 4th

Don't believe everything you read on the...

Sep 4th

Kool Aid, the real product, from Wikipedia.

Sep 3rd

The Agony of Misplaced Ecstasy

Sep 3rd

Ad nauseam

Sep 3rd

Welcome Russians. Image by pablobandeira.

Sep 3rd

Content please

Sep 3rd

A Map of the Internet’s Black Holes via tumbleable.

Sep 3rd

“Pinker believes cursing is rooted in a primordial part of...”
— Holy @&%*! Author Steven...

Sep 2nd

Democracy index

Sep 2nd

Why is the violin so hard to play?

Sep 2nd

Kahua Project

Sep 2nd

cameron i/o articles: Do unto others

Sep 2nd

Should poetry be open-source?

Sep 2nd

“The genetic survey that produced the whole Mitochondrial Eve...”
— BBC Mitochondrial Eve - An...

Sep 2nd

Lucy is now on display in Houston, first stop of an eleven...

Sep 2nd

Bazooka

Sep 2nd

absidea

Sep 2nd

“I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group that...”
— Daily Kos: “We Are Going...

Sep 2nd

Deprecated HTML elements

Sep 2nd

“Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited...”
— Bikini Atoll, after which...

Sep 2nd

Freebase

Sep 2nd

Summer time in Pigtown, image by Bukutgirl.

Sep 2nd

The Hugo Awards 2007 results

Sep 1st

The original proposal for the “World Wide...

Sep 1st

“In the vernacular, the term quantum leap has come to mean an...”
— Quantum leap at Wikipedia.

Sep 1st

Starfish Robot Shows Robotic Introspection...

Sep 1st

The Wall Street Journal explains LOLcats

Sep 1st

Suicide cliff outside of Ilulissat, Greenland, image by...

Sep 1st

The Necropathic Spectregraph, image from Brass Goggles.

Sep 1st

“Much of the media exploits what psychologists call the...”
— How the Elderly Stay Positive...

Sep 1st

On Social Networks

If I had a large enough social network to have any benefit from 10 social networking sites, I would...

Aug 31st

Moona Lisa by Nick Walker, image by noisehead.

Aug 31st

What Google Won’t Find

Aug 31st

“Python 3000 (a.k.a. “Py3k”, and released as...”
— Python 3.0a1 Release

Aug 31st

How Not to Die

Aug 31st

Some definitions...

Of the word “meh” from Urban Dictionary: Indifference; to be used when one simply...

Aug 31st