Links posted in July 2010
July 31, 2010
Has science anything new to say about dreams? Or is Scientific American just trying to capture the audience from INCEPTION?
July 29, 2010
Gently pulsating circles within circles ..
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Andre Michelle's AM Laboratory has plenty of musical toys and special effects to explore.
Try Color Traces
July 28, 2010
The LAST Lost SPOILER The upcoming DVDs include a 12 minute 'coda' about life on The Island with Hurley in charge. Includes SURPRISE APPEARANCE of character not in the Finale.
Translating Stories of Life Forms Etched in Stone. "Many of the creatures found in the fossil record from the time immediately preceding the Cambrian are so unlike modern forms that deciphering what they are and how they lived continues to challenge paleontologists."
July 27, 2010
Banana Vending Machine in Tokyo in semi-cool semi-annoying '360 panorama' interface so you can see the Coke and Pepsi machines on the opposite wall.
Arcimboldo Riding a Composite Camel. [Via]
July 26, 2010
A Field Guide to Typestaches I never was happy with "curly bracket" as the name for that punctuation mark. "Typestache" sounds much more fun. Bonus content: The cops in Crime Procedural Universe have Fleshtaches. (Totally.)
July 25, 2010
Newport (Ymerodraeth State of Mind) (SLYT) If Jay-Z came from a small town in Wales...
July 24, 2010
In 1947, as he was dying in a Warrnambool hospital, Pooran Singh asked for his ashes to be collected and taken to India, to be scattered in the River Ganges. To respect his wishes, the funeral home in Warrnambool arranged for his body to be sent to the nearest crematorium, in Melbourne, and his ashes returned to Warrnambool to await collection and return to India. In June this year, the story about the still waiting ashes was featured in a SBS broadcast. [more inside]
July 23, 2010
Pug sings Batman theme. (SLYT)
$#*! My Town Says
A little town in England had a problem with people stealing its sign (probably something to do with its NSFW name). So the town's new sign is carved into a "tonne-and-a-half" stone.
Editorial comment: Good idea, but I wouldn't have picked a stone that was kinda brownish in color...
New Hypothesis for Human Evolution and Human Nature. "It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in a new journal article and forthcoming book, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. Shipman proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species — 'the animal connection' — played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years."
July 22, 2010
Maybe you missed it, but Japan successfully launched the world's first solar sail craft a couple months ago. I know I missed it. I was just looking at Wikipedia for info about solar sails, remembering the disappointment of the Planetary Society's Cosmos 1 in 2005 and thinking that surely they'd tried something since then. I don't know how I missed it, but JAXA has already successfully launched a solar sail to Venus that demonstrated the ability to change attitude by adjusting LEDs on the sail instead of physically tilting the sail. [more inside]
No, you really CAN'T text and drive at the same time!
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Take the test.
Fail the test.
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July 21, 2010
Maori Eels: New Zealand's Maori defend an extraordinary creature -- and themselves.
July 20, 2010
Do you have 18 monkeys in your pants or are you happy to see me? Man flew from Peru to Mexico with 18 Titi monkeys in his pants (actually in his girdle). Imagine the inhumanity, two monkeys were dead.
July 17, 2010
That's funny....new proton measurement could be exciting stuff
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I'm not sure if it was the illustrations or the story that made me laugh so hard, but it's possible I may have peed my pants before I fell off the chair.
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July 16, 2010
On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study [more inside]
July 15, 2010
50 My Little Pony mods for geeks
July 13, 2010
Is Jousting the Next Extreme Sport?
July 12, 2010
It flies, it drives. The Transition by Terrafugia: simply land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home!
July 10, 2010
Monkeys trained as battlefield killers in Afghanistan. Clearly this development effectively ends the war.
Awkward Stock Photos ...more than awkward, some are weird, bizarre, disturbing, gross, NSFW, NSFLunch or just plain wrong. And all available for licensing!
July 09, 2010
DECADES before there were Hipsters, there were Hepsters. And between 1938 and 1944, Cab Calloway assembled The Hepster's Dictionary. It's in the groove and out of the world! Too much and solid!
July 08, 2010
July 07, 2010
M.O.N.K.E.Y. Part N.I.N.E.: Now It Never Ends
Alright, gang, revival ensuing elsewhere makes essential new thread!!
Please don't hate me for this.
July 06, 2010
The 'issues' with the Apple iPhone 4
must be an opportunity for somebody, right? Introducing the iPhone 4 Attenuation Removal Machine: iARM, only US$3.29! (plus $6.75 shipping)
Or having touch screen troubles? Get an iPhone Sausage Stylus', now only US99¢ (plus $4.99 shipping, not for consumption) It's a world of amazing technology we live in.
July 05, 2010
Julia Gillard is the new Prime Minister of Australia. It would be as if Hillary were named as the acting president of the United States, should Obama step down and be able to name his successor. But that would require a real sea change. Oh, that's right. There IS a sort of a sea change going on in the Gulf of Mexico... Still, Julia Gillard is unique by many standards. Called “an unmarried female atheist redheaded migrant Prime Minister,” she promises a budget surplus for Australia by 2013. A carbon emissions tax and a share in the mineral wealth of the country for all it's citizens sounds to me like her plan. [more inside]
July 04, 2010
Sorry, America, None Of These Things Are Sports*
With the World Cup, Wimbledon, The Tour de France and some pretty good Major League Baseball pennant races all going on right now, why should anyone care about the World Hot Dog Eating Championship?*
* Warning: Gawker links
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District 11: The Invasion of the Footie Fans
July 03, 2010
The hydrogen bomb blast after the fourth of July in 1962
might be the scariest fireworks display ever, but let's just take this as a springboard for fireworks horror as a whole. It's not Guy Fawkes Day, but let's just share our own stories!
Back Yard in Motion. Reinventing the wheel - and then some.
July 02, 2010
The Swedish Chef makes Pöpcørn! A little light content from the Muppetverse. Remember: "If it's not Börk Børk Bôrk, don't fix it." Want something more fitting for your local holiday? You WOULD, you USian...
"The story of my unjust arrest: I was thrown into an unmarked van, strangled, punched, and manhandled." Activist Lacy MacAuley gives a detailed and harrowing description of her arrest at the G20 in Toronto.
July 01, 2010
An interactive 8-bit Eclipse game! You don't need to be a Twilight fan to find this fun or funny. Trust me.
Call me Leviathan melvillei. Sperm whale fossil has the biggest whale bite ever seen.
