Wellington Grey: Past-, Present-, and Future-Me

“Mathematicians who are only mathematicians have exact minds,...”
— from Pensees by Blaise Pascal,...

“At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote: Back from 1936 Berlin;...”
— from “Wikihistory”...

Clinton quits campaign to star in new Broadway musical (via...

Recursive Slashdot Poll

via visual.merriam-webster.com

via visual.merriam-webster.com

Peter Arno cartoon, via www.goofbutton.com

Holiday wishes as mandated by Section IV, Subsection 17.1,...

“… last week, the neuropsychologist Daniel Amen, who...”
— Matt Hutson,  SilverJacket...

“The last [speech recognition] system I had I think was...”
— Tony Benn on speech...

“[Futurama] premiered on Sunday, March 28, 1999, at...”
— ‘Futurama’ is...

One of the first examples of the duck/rabbit illusion

Dilbert: How science journalism is done

from Wellington Grey

“children’s shows are inevitably about symbols of...”
— Mark Liberman at Language Log

“There is a dichotomy in language design, because of the...”
— from “Total Functional...

“It won’t do to say that Kasparov uses...”
— Daniel Dennett on chess...

216-Colour palette:click on a colour to get its RGB, CMYK or...

Extremely simple calendar generator

A guide to etiquette for Japanese smokers (via Presentation...

“I do not want to only speak of my love in grunts! If I wish...”
— from “Jon”, a...

“the only unhackable computer is one that’s running a...”
— from The Concrete Jungle by...

"An introduction to VBA in Excel" by Robert...

Speller's Diary

“Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of...”
— Dave Barry

Neat Mac Drop Box Trick

If you’re a Mac OS X user with multiple accounts on a single machine, you may already have...

via Language Log

Music as landscape (short animation)

“Let me just interject a bit of advice here: If you should...”
— slacktivist on yet another...

Escher’s “Relativity” in LEGO (via...

“Chairs also contributed to the match tension. In prematch...”
— From an account of the 1978...

“Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a...”
— Clay Shirky responds to...

“[P]eople whose jobs relied on solving a hard problem will...”
— Clay Shirky responds to...

Via planetdan, via Deflexion.com

The Cornsweet illusion - The left half is dark and the right...

“The way god has chosen to reveal our imminent destiny is to...”
— Pharyngula: Clever Micah

Slitherlink

“They selected one of the hydrocarbon-powered ground...”
— Mark Rosenfelder - If all...

via balloon-juice

T-Shirt at thinkgeek.com linked from comments in this...

Boomshine

Tom Toles

“Gabriel Knight must disguise himself as a man called Mosley...”
— Death of Adventure Games This...

Recipe: Sweet Potato and Onion Soup

1lb 2 oz sweet potatoes peeled & roughly chopped1 large onion sliced1 pint stockblack pepper1. ...

Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan

Recipe: Ginger+ Soup

1. In a saucepan fry 3 chopped cloves of garlic and a big heap of ginger (or more) in some oil or...

Origami + Scissors (via invisible monsters)

Saving a Few Nanoseconds

from Bizarro, by Dan Piraro

Ask Google: vegetarian "substitute for...

“I was recently offered a non-teaching job that would have...”
— from “The Summer Next...

Bruce Schneier: Secure Passwords Keep You...

Separating form from content in recorded...

Imagine you’re listening to an audio file of recorded speech, with no other background noise. ...

Recipe: Apple and onion soup with crumbled...

Recipe: Koshari

From Rice Boy, a cartoon series by Evan Dahm

Recipe: Vegetarian Thai Green Curry

Gmail Super Clean

The Jury Paradox

Getting a jury to agree on a verdict can be difficult, even if every juror is intelligent and...

Boing Boing: Cable-driven pad pushes bikes up...

qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - April 11th 2007

This could be useful: iGTD

from WWDC 2006, Mac OS X State of the Union

“It is demoralizing to children to hold up Einstein or...”
— from an interview with...

UPCIP: internet addresses as barcodes

[Update 08/04/07: Can you believe someone actually thought back in 2000 that this kind of scheme...

“You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the...”
— Conan Doyle: The Adventure of...

“In the pre-internet dark age, there was a subculture of...”
— Charlie Stross: Why the...

“I think it was about five months ago that Press editor Alex...”
— AlterNet: Flathead

The document control system of babel

Newfound Data Could Solve NASA's Great...

SPACE.com -- The Problem with Gravity: New...

“Now, people look at someone driving a Chevy Suburban the...”
— Seth Godin

“There’s no explanation of what Quicksilver does that’s at...”
— Getting started (or...

Garr Reynolds’ version

The Law of Spontaneous CAPTCHA: Anyone...

Robot #1: Administer the test.
Robot #2: Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweety, or C: a large properly formatted data file?
Robot #1: Choose!
Fry: Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?
Robot #2: No, it is the bad kind of puppy.
Leela: Then we'll go with that data file!
Robot #2: Correct!
Robot #1: The flower would also have been acceptable.

Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics,...

“Social fallacies are particularly insidious because they...”
— Michael Suileabhain-Wilson:...

Eigengoodness

Here’s a fairly common problem: how do you determine some reasonably objective measure of the...

Typefaces

Now, I wonder how I might edit the CSS of this page to get a nice typeface of my own choice?

Make Microsoft Word less annoying

Vegetarian Chili Recipe

Satisficing and Muddling Through

Perspective drawing without straight lines

… and on a similar theme, The Parking Lot is Full...

Wondermark on competitiveness