2008

Sep

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30,000 dominoes (via Cosmic Variance, via FlippyCat)
Sep 23rd

Aug

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Oktapodi
Aug 19th

Jul

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Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Jul 19th
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Aphex Twin “Flim”/ Bright Eyes “First Day of My Life” Mashup - Jack Conte
Jul 4th

Jun

Wellington Grey: Past-, Present-, and Future-Me
Jun 15th

Apr

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Humphrey Lyttleton - “Bad Penny Blues”
Apr 26th
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Radiohead - “Life in a Glass House”, featuring Humphrey Lyttleton
Apr 26th
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HIGH TECH NOON (via)
Apr 24th
“Mathematicians who are only mathematicians have exact minds,...”
— from Pensees by Blaise Pascal,...
Apr 11th

Mar

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Pre-Taped Call In Show (from “Mr. Show”)
Mar 28th
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BigDog
Mar 28th
“At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote: Back from 1936 Berlin;...”
— from “Wikihistory”...
Mar 20th
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“Behave” - Charlotte Hatherley
Mar 14th
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And The Same To You - Dudley Moore
Mar 14th
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Wuthering Heights
Mar 4th

Feb

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
Feb 27th
Clinton quits campaign to star in new Broadway musical (via...
Feb 26th
Feb 22nd
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“My Body is a Cage” - Arcade Fire. Video from Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a...
Feb 5th

Jan

Recursive Slashdot Poll
Jan 28th
via visual.merriam-webster.com
Jan 11th
via visual.merriam-webster.com
Jan 11th
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Andy Mckee - Drifting
Jan 9th
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Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary — “Lexicography is really more about material...
Jan 4th

2007

Dec

Peter Arno cartoon, via www.goofbutton.com
Dec 28th
Holiday wishes as mandated by Section IV, Subsection 17.1,...
Dec 20th
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“Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa” by Roy Zimmerman
Dec 20th
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“Stalker” - Turin Brakes
Dec 13th
“… last week, the neuropsychologist Daniel Amen, who...”
— Matt Hutson,  SilverJacket...
Dec 12th
“The last [speech recognition] system I had I think was...”
— Tony Benn on speech...
Dec 7th

Nov

“[Futurama] premiered on Sunday, March 28, 1999, at...”
— ‘Futurama’ is...
Nov 29th
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TERMINUS by Trevor Cawood (via MetaFilter)
Nov 26th
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Moebius Transformations Revealed, by Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness
Nov 21st
One of the first examples of the duck/rabbit illusion
Nov 15th
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MORE, by Mark Osborne
Nov 10th
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Life Without Buildings: Shinjuku: 35 years in 10 seconds
Nov 4th
Dilbert: How science journalism is done
Nov 1st

Oct

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Wake up Cat
Oct 24th
from Wellington Grey
Oct 12th

Sep

“children’s shows are inevitably about symbols of...”
— Mark Liberman at Language Log
Sep 5th
“There is a dichotomy in language design, because of the...”
— from “Total Functional...
Sep 3rd

Aug

“It won’t do to say that Kasparov uses...”
— Daniel Dennett on chess...
Aug 24th
216-Colour palette:click on a colour to get its RGB, CMYK or...
Aug 24th
Extremely simple calendar generator
Aug 24th
A guide to etiquette for Japanese smokers (via Presentation...
Aug 23rd
“I do not want to only speak of my love in grunts! If I wish...”
— from “Jon”, a...
Aug 19th
“the only unhackable computer is one that’s running a...”
— from The Concrete Jungle by...
Aug 17th
"An introduction to VBA in Excel" by Robert...
Aug 7th
Speller's Diary
Aug 6th
“Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of...”
— Dave Barry
Aug 3rd

Neat Mac Drop Box Trick

If you’re a Mac OS X user with multiple accounts on a single machine, you may already have...
Aug 3rd

Jul

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“Rabbit in your Headlights” - UNKLE + Thom Yorke
Jul 31st
via Language Log
Jul 30th
Music as landscape (short animation)
Jul 23rd
“Let me just interject a bit of advice here: If you should...”
— slacktivist on yet another...
Jul 21st
Escher’s “Relativity” in LEGO (via...
Jul 19th
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“Title Of The Song” - Da Vinci’s Notebook (a meta-song and a nice parody)
Jul 16th
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“This is a simple method to work out complex multiplications with a simple grid pattern on...
Jul 14th
“Chairs also contributed to the match tension. In prematch...”
— From an account of the 1978...
Jul 12th
“Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a...”
— Clay Shirky responds to...
Jul 12th
“[P]eople whose jobs relied on solving a hard problem will...”
— Clay Shirky responds to...
Jul 12th
Via planetdan, via Deflexion.com
Jul 4th
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“Cemetry Polka” - Tom Waits
Jul 2nd

Jun

The Cornsweet illusion - The left half is dark and the right...
Jun 26th
“The way god has chosen to reveal our imminent destiny is to...”
— Pharyngula: Clever Micah
Jun 25th
Slitherlink
Jun 22nd
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“Remind Me” - Royksopp
Jun 22nd
“They selected one of the hydrocarbon-powered ground...”
— Mark Rosenfelder - If all...
Jun 6th
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Apple iPhone Ad
Jun 4th
via balloon-juice
Jun 1st

May

T-Shirt at thinkgeek.com linked from comments in this...
May 22nd
Boomshine
May 19th
Tom Toles
May 18th
“Gabriel Knight must disguise himself as a man called Mosley...”
— Death of Adventure Games This...
May 18th
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George Carlin on religion (via Pharyngula)
May 16th

Recipe: Sweet Potato and Onion Soup

1lb 2 oz sweet potatoes peeled & roughly chopped1 large onion sliced1 pint stockblack pepper1. ...
May 14th
Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan
May 11th

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...
May 10th
Origami + Scissors (via invisible monsters)
May 7th
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“Elephant Gun” - Beirut
May 6th
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“Christobel” - Joan as Police Woman
May 6th
Saving a Few Nanoseconds
May 6th
from Bizarro, by Dan Piraro
May 3rd
Ask Google: vegetarian "substitute for...
May 2nd

Apr

“I was recently offered a non-teaching job that would have...”
— from “The Summer Next...
Apr 30th
Bruce Schneier: Secure Passwords Keep You...
Apr 29th

Separating form from content in recorded...

Imagine you’re listening to an audio file of recorded speech, with no other background noise. ...
Apr 27th
Recipe: Apple and onion soup with crumbled...
Apr 26th
Recipe: Koshari
Apr 26th
From Rice Boy, a cartoon series by Evan Dahm
Apr 22nd
Recipe: Vegetarian Thai Green Curry
Apr 22nd
Gmail Super Clean
Apr 19th

The Jury Paradox

Getting a jury to agree on a verdict can be difficult, even if every juror is intelligent and...
Apr 19th
Boing Boing: Cable-driven pad pushes bikes up...
Apr 17th
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NYU’s Jeff Han on the “interface-free” user interface, showing off some uses of...
Apr 12th
qwantz.com - dinosaur comics - April 11th 2007
Apr 11th
This could be useful: iGTD
Apr 9th
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“Crystal Lake” - Grandaddy
Apr 7th
from WWDC 2006, Mac OS X State of the Union
Apr 5th
“It is demoralizing to children to hold up Einstein or...”
— from an interview with...
Apr 5th

UPCIP: internet addresses as barcodes

[Update 08/04/07: Can you believe someone actually thought back in 2000 that this kind of scheme...
Apr 3rd
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Multitouch - It’s not just for iPhones
Apr 2nd
“You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the...”
— Conan Doyle: The Adventure of...
Apr 1st

Mar

“In the pre-internet dark age, there was a subculture of...”
— Charlie Stross: Why the...
Mar 31st
“I think it was about five months ago that Press editor Alex...”
— AlterNet: Flathead
Mar 30th
The document control system of babel
Mar 29th
Newfound Data Could Solve NASA's Great...
Mar 29th
SPACE.com -- The Problem with Gravity: New...
Mar 29th
“Now, people look at someone driving a Chevy Suburban the...”
— Seth Godin
Mar 29th
“There’s no explanation of what Quicksilver does that’s at...”
— Getting started (or...
Mar 28th
Garr Reynolds’ version
Mar 26th
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“Dashboard” - Modest Mouse (via Atrios)
Mar 26th

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.
Mar 26th
Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics,...
Mar 26th
“Social fallacies are particularly insidious because they...”
— Michael Suileabhain-Wilson:...
Mar 25th

Eigengoodness

Here’s a fairly common problem: how do you determine some reasonably objective measure of the...
Mar 25th

Typefaces

Now, I wonder how I might edit the CSS of this page to get a nice typeface of my own choice?
Mar 25th
Make Microsoft Word less annoying
Mar 24th
Vegetarian Chili Recipe
Mar 24th
Satisficing and Muddling Through
Mar 24th
Perspective drawing without straight lines
Mar 23rd
… and on a similar theme, The Parking Lot is Full...
Mar 23rd
Wondermark on competitiveness