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2009

December
November 34
October 68
September 63
August 61
July 46
June 68
May 101
April 101
March 54
February 51
January 88

2008

December 80
November 65
October 60
September 52
August 54
July 12
June 62
May 55
April 70
March 77
February 108
January 206

2007

December 254
November 169
October 150
September 200
August 12
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
“The invisible hand is wrapped around the invisible cock.”
— Reddit user Bartholomew...
Jan 30th
Neuroscience: One Pill Makes You Autistic --...
Jan 30th
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Cokelore...
Jan 30th
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it...”
— Herm Albright. He neglected to...
Jan 30th
U2 manager takes Internet providers to task
Jan 30th
“You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems...”
— Richard Feynman’s way to...
Jan 30th
Alright, so making a Tumblr one was kinda cheap, but...
Jan 29th
Arc's Out
Jan 29th
"Who goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
Jan 29th
Nonstandard adjectives in mathematics
Jan 29th
Peacock Tail
Jan 29th
In search of the distraction-free computer...
Jan 28th
From Flickr, via the butterfly effect. I think this one...
Jan 28th
Dorkness Theme
Jan 28th
Google celebrates the most brilliant toy known to man....
Jan 28th
“I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to...”
— Douglas Adams.
Jan 28th

A couple (more) thoughts on tumblelogs

I wrote some time ago that there are many ways to keep a tumblelog, none of them the one true way,...
Jan 28th
Del Toro doubles up to direct big-screen...
Jan 28th
I agree with Livejamie: these shark pictures are very much...
Jan 27th
Terrace rice fields in the Yunnan Province, China (yes,...
Jan 27th
“I became a supporter of cannibalism when I lived in Tromsø....”
— Arild Haaland, philosopher...
Jan 27th
Browser History Timeline
Jan 27th
Web Design Timeline; this was making the rounds last year, I...
Jan 27th
Imaginative guerilla advertisement, from this list, which...
Jan 27th
Hydro Train ad
Jan 27th
I Chat, Therefore I Am...
Jan 26th
#tumblrs Quote Database
Jan 26th
Dictionary : Laundromat by Kat… on Flickr. I...
Jan 26th
Rambo statistics via predacious.
Jan 26th
3 hours of MTV anno 1983
Jan 26th
Genome stitched together by hand
Jan 26th
Basic Concepts in Science: A list
Jan 25th
Islamic Golden Age
Jan 25th
Understanding art for geeks #10. Lovely.
Jan 25th
“With one application that we developed in our firm, we often...”
— Bcorfman.
Jan 25th
“If you wou’d not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and...”
— Benjamin Franklin.
Jan 24th
Benjamin Franklin Plays Sudoku
Jan 24th
Visualizing the Bible
Jan 24th
New research has unearthed how the outcome of WWII was...
Jan 24th
Stand Alone Complex
Jan 24th
From a series of advice on handling babies at 4chan.
Jan 24th
Alison
Jan 24th
Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of...
Jan 24th
YouTube - Message to Scientology
Jan 24th
Eva on her bicycle, from Lothian’s Foto’s on...
Jan 24th
Why We Flirt
Jan 24th
3quarksdaily
Jan 22nd
An Eye for Sexual Orientation
Jan 22nd
Nebulabrot, a beautiful fractal that’s so richly...
Jan 22nd
Found on Flickr (via Szymon)
Jan 22nd
Inky: No More LOL, the crack down on false lolling....
Jan 22nd
Political Animals (Yes, Animals)
Jan 22nd
A hype cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity,...
Jan 21st
(via)
Jan 21st
“This is all very well and good, but two things irk me. For a...”
— nostrich. He’s both...
Jan 21st
“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them...”
— Wisdom from Edsger Dijkstra.
Jan 21st
The Unburdened Mind
Jan 20th
Nik’s new layout is nice.
Jan 20th
I don’t own a single Apple product, but even I can...
Jan 20th
Utterly Useless Book Reviews (#1 in a...
Jan 20th
People collect so much weird stuff. Me, I’m...
Jan 20th

How to Compute Your Sarcasm Quotient...

Let me tell you, internet people might not have the largest IQs, but they sure have the greatest SQs...
Jan 20th
Is sci-fi out of ideas?
Jan 20th
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody...”
— Henry David Thoreau.
Jan 19th
Transparent toaster (via predacio.us).
Jan 19th
Newseum | Today's Front Pages
Jan 19th
The Indexed book is ready to go!
Jan 19th
The Astonishing History of Vibrators
Jan 19th
Gelitin, an Italian art group, has erected a giant bunny...
Jan 19th
Nice moody picture that I like for the same inexplicable...
Jan 19th
Attributed to Banksy on Flickr. (via Awais)
Jan 19th
Pakistan arrests suspect in Bhutto attack
Jan 18th
Scooping the Loop Snooper
Jan 18th
Draw Like a Ralph
Jan 18th
Japanese honeybees
Jan 18th
Gizmodo has more on the New York waterfalls, including a...
Jan 18th
From Bangkok, by Scott Hansen. I love the colors, for some...
Jan 18th
Waterfalls as Art To Be Installed in East River: Brooklyn...
Jan 18th
Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dies at 64
Jan 18th
Dead-tree tree (see full to appreciate the details), origin...
Jan 18th
Marion Tinsley: Human Perfection at Checkers?
Jan 17th
In Praise of Melancholy
Jan 17th

Python, the programming language, is...

>>> True
True
>>> True = False
>>> True
False
>>> print ("True is true" if True else "True is false")
True is false
Jan 17th
“A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule...”
— An Enemy of the People, by...
Jan 17th
Teeth (2007/I)
Jan 17th
Unqualified Reservations: A straightforward...
Jan 17th
Seth's Blog: The problem with anonymous (part...
Jan 16th
Travors: Scientists have created a new material that absorbs...
Jan 16th
Haha. Yes, I would agree, that is kind of ridiculous. Not as...
Jan 16th
I Can Has Rezearch Papar?
Jan 16th
Poster for a side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland,...
Jan 16th
Skating, vicinity of Brockton, Mass, from The Library of...
Jan 16th
Quetzalcoatl
Jan 16th
Would You Take a Tumblr With This Man?
Jan 16th
1984comic.com | War is Peace, Freedom is...
Jan 16th
Every year (or perhaps it’s every other year)...
Jan 16th
75 words every sci-fi fan should know
Jan 16th
Quine's paradox
Jan 16th
No…drowning? Jumping jacks? Terrified indecent...
Jan 15th

It's the small things that get you...

Poking fun at Windows stupidity is easy, especially since it manifests itself so often, but...
Jan 15th
Conjunction Fallacy
Jan 15th
80 Million Tiny Images
Jan 14th
Tell Me More: What's happening over there?
Jan 14th

The #xkcd-signal channel has a gazillion...

roel-: woohoo i can talk again
moderator: roel-, you have been muted for 4 seconds.
=-= Mode #xkcd-signal -v roel- by moderator
=-= Mode #xkcd-signal +v roel- by moderator
roel-: woohoo i can talk again
moderator: roel-, you have been muted for 16 seconds.
=-= Mode #xkcd-signal -v roel- by moderator
Jan 14th
FSTDT Top 100
Jan 14th
Regarding this (found via various people): what if the internet (nota bene: Tumblr != the...
Jan 14th
Another cover from another New York magazine from another...
Jan 13th
New Yorker cover from October 8, 2007, from Time’s...
Jan 13th
bjork - bachelorette
Jan 13th
We Love to Build (you really ought to view it large). Hat...
Jan 13th
"Extras" (2005)
Jan 13th
Best Friends Forever by The Kozy Shack, via Faces in Places.
Jan 13th
The Second Coming of Dave
Jan 13th
The Wikipedia article on meta has an image of itself, with...
Jan 13th
“quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur”
— List of Latin phrases at...
Jan 13th
A Dealer in the Ivory Tower
Jan 12th
How to find a mate / The scent of a woman...
Jan 12th
“The Flute”, On the streets of San Francisco, by...
Jan 12th
Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida, by Toni Frisell (who, by the...
Jan 12th
“A witty quote proves nothing.”
— Voltaire (or not).
Jan 12th
Coding Horror: The Enduring Art of Computer...
Jan 12th
50 Reasons Why People Aren't Using Your...
Jan 12th
France's Minitel: 20 years young
Jan 11th
I Got What America Needs Right Here | The...
Jan 11th
— I am Quisling. — And the name? ...
Jan 11th
The Westermarck Effect
Jan 11th
WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
Jan 11th
Some serious nostalgia: Pinball Number Count Revisited,...
Jan 11th
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority...”
— Leonard Cohen (thanks, nik).
Jan 11th
Microsoft Bids $1.2 Billion for FAST; Shares...
Jan 11th
Steal This Wi-Fi
Jan 10th
“Several years ago, I chanced to open Paul Dirac’s famous...”
— Don Knuth.
Jan 10th
Happy Birthday, Donald Knuth!
Jan 10th
The Turks haven't learned the British way of...
Jan 10th
Bush Finds Error In Fermilab Calculations
Jan 10th
Brijit - Great content in 100 words or less
Jan 9th
Décollage
Jan 9th
The Bhutto Dynasty Must End Now
Jan 9th
regurgitate, v.
Jan 9th
Littlewood's law
Jan 9th
Old poster/ad from here.
Jan 9th
“To be fair, there were only four or five typefaces before...”
— Methinks Designing Magazines...
Jan 9th
Will the Real Ernst Bettler Please Stand Up?
Jan 9th
Why I Write by George Orwell
Jan 8th
The Norwegian government is trying to implement an EU...
Jan 8th
PHD Comics (mentally replace “Facebook” with...
Jan 8th
Why It Won’t Work
Jan 8th
Lovely paintings by Josh Keyes (via Szymon).
Jan 8th
Nikography’s album cover wins. In my defense, I...
Jan 8th
Shop-worn arguments
Jan 8th
Lovely meme via Cubicle 17 and Livejamie: The first...
Jan 8th
Punch
Jan 7th
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Self-publishing is...
Jan 7th
livejamie: Girls shouldn’t wear make-up, look at what...
Jan 7th
Kevin Connolly and His Dog (previously covered).
Jan 7th
The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old...
Jan 7th
“Representative Tom Tancredo, another long-shot G.O.P....”
— Shark suit guy, via semi-old...
Jan 7th
Nonce word
Jan 7th
Reprap
Jan 7th
How to Afford Anything
Jan 6th
This is like a reverse gene pool: the longer you stay, the...
Jan 6th
“CONGRATULATIONS ON SELECTING SEAT 21C! This manual is...”
— A Users Manual to Seat 21C...
Jan 6th
How to Survive Writing a Graphic Novel
Jan 6th
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute...”
— Winston Churchill.
Jan 6th
POOP-FREEZE - Dog poop freeze spray....
Jan 6th
From the Little People blog (via topherchris).
Jan 6th
The Rolling Exhibition
Jan 6th
“When English is your second language you will sometimes make...”
— Source. I have to agree with...
Jan 5th
Mixed Feelings
Jan 5th
Iris is not a vegetarian
Jan 5th
Too late, Mozilla… We hardly ever knew you…
Jan 5th
Demographics of Palestine as of 1945
Jan 5th
7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to...
Jan 5th
Io Has A Very Clean Mirror
Jan 5th
The Origami Resolution
Jan 5th
5 Web Comics That Will Make You Ditch Your...
Jan 5th

AQ

I cannot pretend it’s a frequently asked question, but at least it’s an asked question....
Jan 5th
Kung-Fu Election
Jan 5th

2007 in URLs

Uniform Resource Locators are remarkably good at conveying a sense of the past. I didn’t do...
Jan 4th
Jan. 4, 1903: Edison Fries an Elephant to...
Jan 4th
Seen On Miami Beach. Via Szymon.
Jan 4th
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable...”
— Grey’s Law. By the way,...
Jan 4th
New Year's prediction: What happened in 2007
Jan 4th
Pierre Bayard on the great unread
Jan 4th
Your Brain on Music, Magnets, and Meth
Jan 4th
Got a (type)facelift. Nifty, no? Let me know if it breaks in...
Jan 4th
“Self Portrait - Biro On Lift - 2007”. Art...
Jan 3rd
Happy Introvert Day
Jan 3rd
“Perhaps now is the time. Perhaps the imminent publication of...”
— Eichmann and the Banality of...
Jan 3rd
io9: This image of “Nano-Explosions” won first...
Jan 3rd

Collection types

Since there’s obviously confusion, let me (try to) clarify a bit about types of collections....
Jan 3rd
The Easiest Hard Problem
Jan 3rd
From the 1927 premiere of The Jazz Singer, the first popular...
Jan 3rd
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
Jan 3rd
“In fact, temperatures colder than absolute zero are...”
— I totally get...
Jan 2nd
“For the first month, I basically just looked at stuff...”
— Heather Havrilesky on working...
Jan 2nd
keepgoing.org :: The Big Fish
Jan 2nd
Elections were rigged, violence was wrought. Happy New Year,...
Jan 2nd
All We Are Saying
Jan 2nd
Encephalitis lethargica
Jan 2nd
“Developers need to learn the fine art of making great demos....”
— Lost Garden: Super Mario...
Jan 1st
The Edge Annual Question 2008
Jan 1st
Future Ruins by Michelle Lord.
Jan 1st
Ironically, a tumblelog that has three entries on Tumblr...
Jan 1st
“Museum 1” by Illka Halso, from the Museum of...
Jan 1st
Woman Who Tried to Shoot Ford Released
Jan 1st
Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of...
Dec 31st
Inventor of the Week: Elisha Otis (1811-1861)
Dec 31st
Frame Not Included
Dec 31st
All the major media have stories about damages and injuries relating to fireworks, and especially...
Dec 31st
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
Dec 31st