March 15, 2010
Mix and match album covers Album cover art literally stitched together to create something new.
March 14, 2010
Star Wars as Icelandic saga - There is also an Old High German palimpsest known to scholars, later overwritten by a Latin choral and only partly legible to us today, which contains fragments of a version wherein “Veitare” survives to old age after slaying “Lûc” out of loyalty to the emperor, but is naturally still conflicted about the deed when the son of his daughter Leia avenges the killing on him.
March 13, 2010
Tree shrew lavatory in Borneo - the pitcher plant has evolved to capture tree shrew poo as a much needed source of nitrogen.
Lazertits! Because you always need to see nekkid ladies with lasers coming out of their boobs! Fluff for a Friday night.
March 12, 2010
So anyway, this website I visit reckons that I suck (well, not me personally, we've never met, but in a Venn Diagram I would be in the "suck" balloon...) because I block their ads. They've now written a detailed guide to not blocking their ads. [more inside]
March 11, 2010
March 10, 2010
A regular dose of lemon juice , that's all it took to prevent scurvy. The Royal Navy knew that in the 18th century. So why was scurvy back at the start of the 20th?
Ten songs you know, that never won an Oscar, in their original movie form. I never knew that Dean Martin had to fend off Jerry Lewis's bleatings whilst crooning "That's amore." And wouldn't we all prefer "Mean green mother from outer space" to be a standard instead of "Take your breath away"?
Star Wars Made In France [SLYT] I have no words to describe this. It has to be seen and heard. [via]
March 09, 2010
Building better teachers - or rather, preparing teachers better. (via, which includes this singularly *ahem* illuminating comment on why one is not prime. anyway.)
March 06, 2010
I don't know if this really counts as a link, but I've added a twist. Yeah, it's just a link to Google Maps. But wait, there's more...I've sort of invented a game. [more inside]
Curious George: has anyone experienced sleep paralysis? The other night, I dreamed a child was running into traffic with a hood over her head. With an immense effort, and several tries, a horrible croak awoke my mate, and so dissipated the wisps of nightmare. It was what it was, but I'm hoping others will share less pedestrian examples...
A new commercial from Rhett and Link. [more inside]
March 05, 2010
Pictures from the International Space Station via Twitter user @Astro_Soichi (Soichi Noguchi).
March 02, 2010
They Don’t Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To.
The Chilean earthquake may have tipped the earth's axis. The latest quake was big enough to affect the planet's rotation. [more inside]
The Oops Design Award is only in its first year, but you can already find dozens of silly, impractical and sometimes downright dangerous product designs on the site.
Home Sheep Home Get your wayward sheep back home. A little fleecy flash foolishness.
March 01, 2010
A temple complex in Turkey that apparently pre-dates the Pyramids of Egypt. Could this be the site of the worst mistake in human history? (agriculture or religion, take your pick...)
February 28, 2010
A life in the trees is a longer one.
February 27, 2010
An 8.8 earthquake has occurred in Chile. Australia and other pacific regions are on tsunami watch.
February 26, 2010
How not to use Flash on your web site. It does load quickly, at least. But wow, how do you go this far wrong? [more inside]
Right now you can watch a live chat with Lawrence Lessig. You can interact via Twitter.
February 24, 2010
Singing android! The hair, the face, the suit, the song, the set. It overwhelms.
10 ways civilization could collapse because of MonkeyFilter!
5 reasons Avatar is the new global warming!!
8 ways gay marriage could help you survive a plane crash!!!
10 funny ways health care reform has appeared in music videos!!!!
7 bizarre ways 80s movies can kill you suddenly!!!!!
Why killer robots suck: myth vs. reality!!!!!!
5 things people love about string theory now that they'll find horribly annoying in two years!!!!!!!
10 reasons you'd want to be stuck in an elevator with Simon Cowell!!!!!!!!
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February 23, 2010
Immortality! I gap like a rube on the tube at the possibility that relatively young mummified humans may yet cavort with the already predicted cloned furry mammoths in the not too distant future... [more inside]
February 22, 2010
I've always wondered why they had that war.
"Do not believe anything the wretched girls tell you. I was kind and generous and loving and beautiful..." Far and away the funniest obituary I've ever read. [more inside]
February 21, 2010
Put that god down, you don't know where it's been.via J-Walk blog [more inside]
February 19, 2010
Don't worry , "this feature was only used for the narrow purpose of locating a lost, stolen or missing laptop." Except, "the assistant principal told him the camera had caught him doing something inappropriate at home."
