"In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." -- Steve Lacy. More Jazz Quotes
January 15, 2008: 80 million tiny images
We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. The images for each word ... » M E-L posted this |
January 10, 2008: Neu-York
An obsessively detailed alternate-history map, imagining how Manhattan might have looked had the Nazis conquered it in World War II. » M E-L posted this |
January 10, 2008: 10 Creepy Old Ads
BLOW IN HER FACE AND SHE'LL FOLLOW YOU ANYWHERE. » M E-L posted this |
January 8, 2008: More Ephemeral Things
David Levine's Travel Ephemera from the 20s and 30s. Via Quipsologies. » M E-L posted this |
January 7, 2008: Clothespins
Clothespin Iconography Via Coudal. » M E-L posted this |
January 5, 2008: Cursor*10
Go on, play with yourself. My high score: 118. Beat it? » M E-L posted this | 3 comments
January 1, 2008: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
I don't even watch 24, but this "what if Jack Bauer had to work with 1994 technology" video is pretty hilarious. Floppies! » M E-L posted this |
December 21, 2007: News That Sounds Like The Onion But Isn't
Blackwater Kills the New York Times' Dog in Iraq. I'll teach you to write bad things about our mercenaries -- and your little dog, too! » M E-L posted this |
December 21, 2007: News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
Turn up the David Bowie, break out the tinfoil hats, and stock up on canned goods: THE WORLD IS ENDING IN FIVE YEARS. At least according to one of my favorite Eschatological Scenarios. You see, December 21, 2012 is the ... » M E-L posted this |
December 19, 2007: Upgrading to XP
"I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the same to my laptop." Via Cynical-C. » M E-L posted this |
December 15, 2007: What's That Font?
If you're at the movies, it must be Trajan. » M E-L posted this |
December 13, 2007: It's Official:
Republicans can't sing. At least, not these. » M E-L posted this |
December 12, 2007: 40 acres and a natural experiment
Would it have helped African Americans today if their forefathers had been given the land promised? An economist says yes. » Ennis posted this |
December 12, 2007: "It's Like Leaving a Part of You with Your Baby"
You know, I used to go through the various Child Product Catalogs we would receive and try and find the Most Ridiculous Product. Usually it was to deal with some imaginary / paranoid safety issue -- a Phantom Menace, as ... » M E-L posted this | 2 comments
December 7, 2007: A wonderful, magical animal.
It's been years since I gave up pork. (This is part of my half-kosher deal with God -- I don't eat pork, and God continues to provide shellfish for me to consume.) I don't miss ham, but I do miss ... » M E-L posted this | 4 comments
November 21, 2007: iPod, Circa 1924
Check out the Mikiphone, "probably the smallest gramophone ever placed on the market, folded up to the size of a large pocket watch or a small cheese case." More pictures here. Check out the Gipsy too. » M E-L posted this |
November 16, 2007: Fall On Me
Yesterday, I was walking toward the subway down the Brooklyn street. The skies were lowering grey, the wind spoke of rain and the coming winter. There were birds in the air. A sudden gust blew yellow leaves from their branches, ... » M E-L posted this | 2 comments
November 3, 2007: Freeware Redux
Yet Another Freeware List, this one includes a bunch I hadn't seen before. Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs. » M E-L posted this |
October 26, 2007: Awesome!
List of self-contradicting words in English » M E-L posted this |
October 26, 2007: Who Is...
... The Superest? Via Waxy. » M E-L posted this |
October 19, 2007: Tufte Alert!
Reflecting on the New Look of National Park Service Maps. I wonder if there's a point at which a semi-realistic depiction of a valley enters the Uncanny Valley?. Via Coudal. » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
October 15, 2007: Two Signs in Omaha with Typos I Wish I Had Photographed
CANDID SWEET POTATOES "Look, when you put marshmallows on top of us, we're really not all that good for you." FREE IRELESS INTERNET. Wouldn't you pay extra for an Internet without ire? It would eliminate so many blogs... » M E-L posted this | 3 comments
September 30, 2007: Image-Aware Resizing
The Image-Aware Resizing thing is now available as a GIMP plugin and a Flash-based web-app » M E-L posted this |
September 30, 2007: What is the Monkeysphere?
I never thought I'd read a consistent moral philosophy in CRACKED, which I remember as the less-funny MAD, but here it is: What is the Monkeysphere? » M E-L posted this |
September 23, 2007: someecards
ecards for when you care enough to hit send » M E-L posted this |
September 20, 2007: The New $5 Is Coming!
And it's got a killer music video! A big purple sans-serif 5! Too bad it's only worth a couple of loons now. » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
September 10, 2007: Random Monday Linkage
I'd love to find one of these Little People on the streets of London. Speaking of dolls, apparently the Singapore police are cracking down on peaceful protests by action figures. Perhaps they should get help from the Hello Kitty Thai ... » M E-L posted this |
September 9, 2007: Judging Books by Their Covers
Corruption in textbook-adoption proceedings. Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman? » M E-L posted this |
September 5, 2007: Secrets of the Perry Bible Fellowship
- 10 Zen Monkeys interviews Nicholas Gurewitch. This may be one of my favorite PBF strips. Via Waxy. » M E-L posted this |
September 3, 2007: Font Flowers
"All the curved segments of each character are placed coming out of the center. Comparing one flower to another, many formal differences can be noticed..." » M E-L posted this |
August 29, 2007: Tufte Alert!
Debbie sent me this link to the Gallery of Data Visualization. Pictured above, the coxcomb graph created by Florence Nightingale. » M E-L posted this |
August 29, 2007: sdrawkcab
redro lacitebahpla ni sdrow sdrawkcab » M E-L posted this |
August 20, 2007: Hell's Kitchen
You know that you can microwave sponges to kill bacteria, right? (Note: the actual Hints from Heloise does not recommend this, saying a good soak in diluted bleach or running through the dishwasher will suffice. Cooks Illustrated says that boiling ... » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
August 20, 2007: Where Bloggers Buy Crap
Design*Sponge: bloggers' guide to online shopping: part one » M E-L posted this |
August 20, 2007: Tufte Alert!
CSS Juice » 22 Code Snippets for Creating Decent Charts » M E-L posted this |
August 17, 2007: Odds and Ends, Friday Edition
Kerim on the social nature of Wikipedia How to get a 5-Star rating for your shareware that does nothing How to shut your 14-year-old up when he can't stop joking about condoms. File under "read again in eight years." » M E-L posted this | 2 comments
August 16, 2007: Don't Believe the Hype
The 6 Most Over-Hyped Threats to America (And What Should Scare You Instead) America's Top Seven Most Hated Substances I was trying to find an "eight" to round out this list but could only find The Eight Most Disturbing Criminal ... » M E-L posted this |
August 13, 2007: And The Numbers Just Keep Going Up
World Clock. I remember a similar digital population growth clock at the Air & Space Museum when I was a kid, and was fascinated that the number of people just kept going up and up and up. Via Coudal. » M E-L posted this |
August 10, 2007: Bulwer Lytton Contest: Bad First Lines of Imaginary Books
"The Barents sea heaved and churned like a tortured animal in pain, the howling wind tearing packets of icy green water from the shuddering crests of the waves, atomizing it into mist that was again laid flat by the growing ... » M E-L posted this |
August 8, 2007: Random Roundup
A few things off today's del.icio.us/popular: Now that's one funky panorama. 50 Really Good Indie Games. I've played about five of these and they were indeed Really Good. Many free. Too bad I have no time to play no more. ... » M E-L posted this |
July 31, 2007: Blackle? Negroogle?
"Negroogle, The Affirmative Action Search Engine... It should have "reparations" automatically queued in the search box also" It's humor, and hard to explain, so just click through. [Link] » Ennis posted this | 3 comments
July 30, 2007: 200
200 Bad Comics. Via Cardhouse. » M E-L posted this |
July 30, 2007: Airplane vs. Zero Hour
The rights to the movie were purchased by the makers of Airplane!, and they were able to use the screenplay almost verbatim. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit YouTube. » M E-L posted this |
July 29, 2007: Fallacies, Part Two
When I saw this The Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies I thought, huh, didn't I blog about that five years ago? Indeed I did, but since that one's 404'd, I give you a renewed list of fallacious arguments. » M E-L posted this |
July 23, 2007: Exterminate! Exterminate!
Now that it's coming to the telly, you can also get the new Dr. Who (or at least the phone booth) on your desktop. » Tk posted this | 2 comments
July 20, 2007: Jailhouse Rpck
1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice, performing "Thriller". They're actually quite good. » Ennis posted this |
July 9, 2007: Your Law of the Day
Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice." Via 43 Folders » M E-L posted this |
July 4, 2007: So Doctor...
... I keep having this proto-Gondry dream where Jodie Foster is singing to me in French.. What does it mean? » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
July 2, 2007: Step One:
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July 1, 2007: Read to me
The New Yorker Fiction Out Loud, as podcast, along with discussion with another author concerning what they like about the story. » Ennis posted this |
June 28, 2007: Paris
Is Paris drowning? Is Paris liberated? (First by Coudal.) » M E-L posted this |
June 27, 2007: I can just see the IPOs
"BlankSheetofPaper.com is a free online utility to allow you to print a blank sheet of paper from your printer in case you need a clean white, blank sheet of paper to write on. No download required." "Most modern DVD players ... » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
June 26, 2007: Everetts in the News
Dan Everett (no relation as far as I know) and the language of the Pirahã of the Amazon. This is apparently big controversial stuff in linguistics. Go Everetts! Via kottke. » M E-L posted this | 1 comment
June 25, 2007: 1000 Films
Now that's a list. Fire up the Netflix queue! » M E-L posted this |
June 21, 2007: Problems in Time
Temporal Anomalies in Popular Time Travel Movies. Via Coudal. » M E-L posted this |
June 19, 2007: Darling!
Pesky' has a new job at Planned Parenthood, so hopefully she'll appreciate this 1956/1962 Planned Parenthood Comic on Birth Control. Via Boing Boing. » M E-L posted this |
June 12, 2007: Open a page at random
My keyboard just came crashing to the ground, hitting some keys at random, and opening up this page. Division on the grounds of lack of unity This is a process for which there is no provision in the Patent Law, ... » Ennis posted this | 1 comment
June 11, 2007: Adaptations
Authors pick their favorite movie adaptations of books. Via Kottke. » M E-L posted this |
June 7, 2007: Science Geek Merch
Wear it with pride or with air quotes: Merch from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. » Tk posted this | 2 comments
June 6, 2007: The man who weighed 1234 lbs
While the number is horrifyingly large, I'm kind of entranced by the fact that his weight made consecutive numbers in pounds. More interesting than if he had been 1308 lbs at his peak. Oh - and he's hoping to set ... » Ennis posted this |
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