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• Tumblr Leave Me Alone!

  January 17 2012, 5:18pm | Comments

• Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

  January 10 2012, 7:06am | Comments

• Twitter Links File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  The Missionary Church of Kopimism: "I think that more people will have the courage to step out as Kopimists. Maybe not in the public,…

  January 4 2012, 10:52am | Comments

• Tumblr December is here

  December 1 2011, 6:23am | Comments

• Link Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Hitler foetus

  September 21 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Link The Artist is Present (a video game about…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr You Can Shave the Baby

  August 14 2011, 4:15am | Comments

• Tumblr Best guess for this image: giant isopod

  August 3 2011, 1:28am | Comments

• Tumblr No

  August 2 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

  June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments

• Link A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Link Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Link The Loneliest Whale in the World

  ...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52…

  February 25 2011, 11:04am | Comments

• Link The Soul Niche

  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we…

  February 4 2011, 2:59am | Comments

• Link Paramecium video games

  In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the…

  January 20 2011, 5:16pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to…

  November 18 2010, 3:02pm | Comments

• Link What techniques do you use to make glitch…

  What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

  October 12 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Link The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to…

  October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Link The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to…

  October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Link If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• Video

  July 19 2010, 2:53am | Comments

• Link Ten movies that never should have been made—and…

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds,…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational…

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Link Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Link My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Link Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Link Philip K Dick journals to be published next…

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53,…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Link Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye

  A proposal to change the formal name of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has significant implications for research in the life sciences.. Even if you haven’t worked directly with…

  April 21 2010, 10:58am | Comments

• Link Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori

  It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to…

  April 20 2010, 3:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio hellograndad.com

  April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments

• Video

  April 3 2010, 3:44am | Comments

• Link Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on…

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 5:13am | Comments

• Flickr Rational Robot

  February 17 2010, 5:16pm | Comments

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