Links posted in March 2009
March 31, 2009
Curious George: Moving Day I might be moving from the East coast of the US to the Pacific Northwest in four months with the SO. Although it's a ways away I like to plan things ahead of time, and I wondered if any of the monkeys have attempted something similar and have any advice they would like to share. [more inside]
Deformed skull of prehistoric child suggests that early humans cared for disabled children.
March 30, 2009
Talk to some strangers
"Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, we pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like."
via mefi
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March 29, 2009
Earth Hour has been and gone for the year. Curious George wants to know: What did YOU do?
March 28, 2009
World Passport Music is a music blog that has kept me coming back for a long time. If you like world music, especially the African variety, it's a gold mine. [more inside]
Aberdeen, 1869: A doctor buying a corpse for dissection gets more than he bargained for. This "frolicsome" story was widely reported; much was made of the fact that the central figure was a "daring man of colour." The incident became the subject of a popular broadside ballad (click the magnifying glass in the corner to enlarge.) [more inside]
March 26, 2009
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe.
March 25, 2009
If you've ever wondered what the evolutionary reason is for chilies being spicy.
"The cart is faster than the wind" says the windtunnel. - Months ago, there was a thread demonstrating a wind powered device going faster than the wind. [more inside]
March 24, 2009
Through a century of work and 170km - a Roman aqueduct, across Syria, has been found. Including a section that extends for 94 km underground.
Elke, the cutest monkey in the zoo
Orang-utan study suggests that upright walking may have started in the trees.
The Golden Age of Re-Engagement From this month's Utne Reader, a nice collection of essays about disconnection and disengagement (and re-connection and re-engagement) in modern US society. The Lonely American, The Art of a Lively Conversation, All in the Neighborhood, and One Nation: Indivisible. There's a lot of good stuff to think about here, and there are plenty of things in there that would still be relevant to you non-US monkeys out there.
March 23, 2009
Lifetiles are hand-cast and hand fabricated works of art by Rufus Butler Seder (for those of you familiar with the "scanimation" book Gallop!).
The seat of shame? The lateral sulcus or insula is whorled into the brain as an especially deep convolution. According to neural imaging, that is the seat of the self, or at least the area that becomes most active during self-reflection. [more inside]
March 21, 2009
Pay for Pray
- please, I pray, let this be a hoax.
Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.
March 20, 2009
Egyptian Mummies are not screaming
compare the ones at the Guanajuato Museum - there’s a pictorial tour (first page requires Windows Media Player, but you can skip it) - or the Capuchin catacombs, in Palermo.
Lost Souls in the Mountains : an Avro Lancaster bomber plane is found deep in the fiords of Tierra del Fuego, decades after it went missing. [via]
Wondering what "winkelen" means
Rorschach’s Journal (On a Boring Night).
March 19, 2009
Sheep Art. (SLYT)
Ball Droppings. Hell to the yes.
One-eyed Filmmaker Becomes "Eyeborg" What else do you need?
Could a Dose of Ether Contain the Secret to Consciousness? "Researchers may soon be able to measure consciousness as well as we can measure a person's temperature." [Via]
March 18, 2009
A small bat that was spotted blasting off with the space shuttle Sunday and clinging to the back side of Discovery's external fuel tank apparently held on throughout the launch. [more inside]
Cows Really Do Have a Magnetic Sixth Sense: Power lines disrupt the magnetic alignment of cows and deer.
Manipulating drug research
for fun and profit!
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March 17, 2009
Cleopatra's mother was black?
The article asks whether Cleopatra's mother was "African". Of course she was. What it means is, was she black? This is not a new claim in itself. The excellent Isidore of Seville has a gallery of ancient images of Cleopatra and a collection of articles.
The orthodox view is that as a Ptolemaic queen she was probably blonde and definitely Macedonian. Looking at those sculptures and coins - does she look a bit, well, Jewish? Could there have been a charming Hebrew slave in her father's palace?
Tactile illusions . aaaand I'm off to work. NOT going to hunt down a blackboard AT ALL.
Heiko Müeller - Paintings and Drawings. [Via]
March 16, 2009
The Rise and Fall of the Printing Press: Another look at the inevitable demise of newspapers, and why. [more inside]
March 15, 2009
Is Patriotism a Subconscious Way for Humans to Avoid Disease? "We're not very aware of the 'behavioral immune system,' but it may push us toward life-saving behaviors." [Via]
World War II: the simple version.
The Second World War in a cartographic comic.
[Large image; there's a smaller version here at strangemaps.com]
March 14, 2009
Newspaper clippings that make you go >o.O< (credit waraw in #mofirc) [more inside]
March 13, 2009
Paraplegic Man Suffers Spider Bite, Walks Again.
Christopher Walken's Twitter feed.
March 12, 2009
For anyone who loves a good heist story.
Know your meme. A public service announcement.
Regulate armed robots before it's too late. [Via]
March 11, 2009
Play your house
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Check out the huggy and the beam
Want!
Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords.
March 10, 2009
March 09, 2009
RAT ATTACK!!
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If that didn't give you nightmares, this will.
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This Republican chick in a tobacco state wants to castrate restaurant smokers Debbie Bell from humble Roanoke, Va., has singlehandedly declared war on restaurant smokers. [more inside]
March 08, 2009
Glenn Tee Concepts
A collection of graphic images that have a somewhat quirky nature. My favourite is Missing.
via StumbleUpon
PETER FUNCH
took photos of the same places in Manhattan over 10 days or more and combined them invisibly, collecting together similar people, in an exhibition called Babel Tales.
SEGEI LARENKOV combined photos from the siege of Leningrad, overlaying them onto modern shots taken 65 years later, from exactly the same locations. (Caution: contains corpses).
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March 06, 2009
The Tattoo Baby Doll Project: Wood has cleverly played upon the stereotypical naming of women as "dolls," then invited women in a male-dominated art form (tattooing) to create uplifting female imagery for these stand-ins for the female figure, while insisting upon a traditional female craft - embroidery - for their execution. (Link to review)
If Watchmen was on Saturday Morning Click the Watch this Movie link. [more inside]
If a man is alone in a forest, with no woman to hear him speak, and he expresses an opinion: is he still wrong? Apparently, the answer is yes. [more inside]
March 04, 2009
BRAS! Quilters of South Carolina band together and create many...bras.
Two words: Don't. Pay.
Debt collectors suck.
Your dead granny caused the financial crisis
Thanks to the Knappster, outta the Blue
Kyrgyzstan and Manas Air Base.
March 03, 2009
Clematiphilatelic [more inside]
March 01, 2009
Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. [They] have this blog, which is by invitation, a Flickr group, where anyone can share their location drawings, and a Google group to stay connected and foster discussion.
This is what snorkelling feels like, sort of. *sigh*
Performance drug use - more sophisticated than I had the slightest inkling of.
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