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.
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 17, 2009
Tactile illusions
. aaaand I'm off to work. NOT going to hunt down a blackboard AT ALL.
March 04, 2009
March 01, 2009
Performance drug use - more sophisticated
than I had the slightest inkling of.
A photographic survey
of London's remaining professional darkrooms.
Several of the darkrooms featured have since closed down. Others will surely follow. (The darkroom with the slogan pinned to the wall, 'I want to stay here forever', was dismantled shortly after I photographed it and is now being converted into luxury apartments.)
February 20, 2009
Big magnets are not your friend.
Via the the Dan's Data blog. Ouch! (Warning - somewhat graphic images of a mushed finger tip). Have the zooborn post on standby.
February 19, 2009
February 08, 2009
After a record breaking day
in Victoria, Australia, at least 26 people are dead, with more expected to be found. The state premier fought back tears at a press conference, as fires and heat have disrupted travel across Victoria.
February 04, 2009
Cornify!
And to think I never knew I needed it...
February 03, 2009
So anyway,
one photographer sent a daguerreotype of the Obama inauguration along to another photographer whose wife then found the first photographer in a Gigapan picture also taken at the inauguration. Since the daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 and GigaPan was spun off in 2008 (and was itself the result of R&D deployed as part of the Mars Rover mission) that puts nearly 170 years between the two. Which is, I dunno, kinda neat really.
January 31, 2009
And it wasn't Galileo.
Despite his innovative work, Harriot remains relatively unknown. Unlike Galileo, he did not publish his drawings. Unlike Galileo, Harriot is not being widely celebrated during 2009, dubbed the International Year of Astronomy as a commemoration of the telescope's 400th year.
This has been another episode of Publish or Perish.
January 27, 2009
January 26, 2009
How to Memorize Scripts
. Ken Levine asks around.
January 25, 2009
Hypothetically, what would happen if you combined ghost nurses, NSFW content (you have been warned),
and, uh, inspired? dialogue. Behold.
January 24, 2009
Time Magazine
has a slideshow of a 1980 photoshoot, when the freshman Barack Obama was asked if he would mind posing for a classmate of his. via
January 22, 2009
World's oldest sample
of weapon's grade plutonium has been identified - retrieved from a rusty safe at the bottom of a waste pit during clean up excavations.
January 20, 2009
Two men were found alive, floating in an Esky
in the Torres Strait. They had been there for about 25 days, after their boat sank a couple of days before Christmas. Eskies - don't leave home without them.
December 29, 2008
Rembrandt Q&A
. A photographer chats with Rembrandt about lighting a scene.
December 28, 2008
Difficult to say while drunk.
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