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A job for the anthropologist

Reading The Big Picture — as opposed to just looking at the pretty pictures — is...

What’s even cooler than fractals? Impossible fractals...

Orlagh O’Brien asked people where in the body they felt...

No thanks, jQuery.

I wish people would stop using economy as...

“Linux is a pair of pants with no hem. You have to taylor it....”
— Reddit.

Why do crack dealers still live with their...

I just remembered that Daily Meh was a year old yesterday (the first few days were on Soup.io...

Ubiquity In Depth

Some functional programming and OCaml koans

“[Semicolons] are transvestite hermaphrodites representing...”
— Kurt Vonnegut, as quoted in...

Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy?

Confusing Words

Model of Zheng He’s largest ship compared to...

Semi-sweep: Misty, Kerri to play for gold

The Devil and The Monk

The Secret Thoughts of Harold Lawrence...

“DNA is basically a scientific phenomenon which proves each...”
— Jeez, I knew I had genes but...

A Softer World’s banner ad for its store. Thanks for...

The South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee practices “pop...

How many atoms of Jesus you eat every day

Bloggers On Blogging

How to Look Like a Computer Cracker

Piracy, Theft, Plagiarism

Last week Slate ran an article by Jody Rosen called Dude, You Stole My Article. It did not detail...

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it...”
— Tom Robbins. (I’d like...

2008 Hugo Award Results

Shake it Like a Metaphorical Picture

M.C. Esher reloaded, by Stefan Rigo. Browsing through...

A Collection of Olympic Torches

South Ossetia, The War of My Dreams

Game Design Rant 2006

Game developer wants to learn from pirates,...

This is Andreas Gursky’s “99 cent II,...

"The War Prayer"

War in South Ossetia (2008)

From the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, drummers...

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Why do we capitalize the word “I”?

Pictures for sad children.

Daniel Dennett: Autobiography (Part 1)

It's time to stop killing meat and start...

Coilhouse on Best of Craigslist: ‘Want it...

I Am, Therefore I Pollute

And Friday the Beijing Olympics Start

I watched a Norwegian tv documentary today about the Chinese training regimes that bring up its...

Change, photo by Sam Javanrouh, whose excellent daily dose...

Photoblogs

I like photoblogs. If I were more talented I’d have one. Unlike regular blogs, though,...

Explaining the "Magic" of Consciousness

Gizmodo invited its readers to put modern technology into...

Vacation no more. I’m back after four weeks, the latter two of which were entirely...