January 09, 2015
The Freer and Sackler galleries
- more than 40,000 works, the Smithsonian's museum of Asian Art is being made available to view online.
February 02, 2014
Birthright Israel
- makes total sense and also slightly creepy. Ick factor....5 or so? and I'd guess a +2 bonus if you know what AIPAC stands for.
via this tangential Crooked Timber discussion.
January 26, 2014
Alan Moore -
quite an extended discussion with the author on various themes in his work.
January 04, 2014
Irreplaceable environmental records destroyed.
Sent to landfill, dumped or burned. Part of Canada's story erased.
December 25, 2013
Australian sign language for holidays.
via the comment section in a Dan Savage review of the introduction to Sarah Palin's latest book....I really like the internet. I really do. Best to all the monkeys!
November 03, 2013
Princeton University poll: Hitler is the greatest living person.
From a poll held in 1939: Einstein came in second and Chamberlain in third.
October 25, 2013
I am shocked, shocked I say
to hear that that well known conservative writer Edmund Burke was all too happy to have his old age comfortably provided for by the UK Government while writing against it doing so for farm labourers.
October 19, 2013
The DSM-5 reviewed as a work of dystopian fiction.
"Something has gone terribly wrong in the world; we are living the wrong life, a life without any real fulfillment. The newly published DSM-5 is a classic dsytopian novel in this mold."
May 06, 2012
April 28, 2012
What Mormon's Believe.
A flowchart.
April 22, 2012
April 01, 2012
Mix maps, Facebook and geolocation and
you get something like this. Creepy. Charlie Stross has more about it here.
March 09, 2012
Huge floods in NSW displace wolf spiders.
Note for arachnophobes - lots of spider silk, plus one shot showing lots of spiders in a tree.
March 04, 2012
Cognitive enhancement
from electrostimulation of the brain. Sounds amazing.
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February 25, 2012
February 17, 2012
Greece rolls a 6
- one for the econ-junkie monkeys out there. It's the "Choose your own Troika program for Greece Adventure"
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February 14, 2012
A history of the sky for (almost) one year
via
Nicely complementary (I think) - the Toronto skyline through a pinhole camera.
February 11, 2012
February 02, 2012
To my old master
: from an emancipated slave to Colonel P.H. Anderson on being asked to return to Tennessee.
August 06, 2011
Let's do the time warp again
- it's just a carriage return...to the left...and the typewriters don't have a 1.
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