Nice comparative presentation of Tarot iconography, rounding up hundreds of cards from the 1330’s to present, accompanied by articles on the meaning of Tarot cards and their historical development. Interesting. In related linkage: The Hermitage a Tarot history site.

The Lasso, a rational guide to trick roping. Ye haw!

Video: Zoologist Dan-Eric Nilsson of the University of Lund in Sweden explains how the complex human eye could have evolved gradually from a primitive light-sensitive eye-spot, or: the human Eye is NOT irreducibly complex!

The Implant Matrix, Orpheus Filter, Orgone Reef, Tensegrity Weave, and Hungry soil… just a few of the fascinating sculptures/instillations on view at the Philip Beesly Architect Inc site. Via.

J-Track 3D, a Java applet from NASA science which tracks man-made satellites in real-time. Click, rotate, & zoom! Fun for the whole dorky family.  Via.

Lastly the top ten trivia tips about The Nonist as revealed by The Mechanical Contrivium, Via, with apologies to those in the UK.

1. A lump of the nonist the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
2. The nonist can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that’s really fast!
3. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are the nonist.
4. Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the nonist, and frequently rise to the surface for air.
5. Every day in the UK, four people die putting the nonist on.
6. The nonistomancy is the art of telling the future with the nonist!
7. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by the nonist fighting underground!
8. Early thermometers were filled with the nonist instead of mercury.
9. The nonist is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than the nonist.
10. The air around the nonist is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.

06.29. filed under: link dump.


Hi Jaime. The video of the eye was posted on Reddit a while back. The comments on it are worth a read.

posted on 06.29 at 03:33 PMxenmate


I inquired of the Contrivium, and it was most helpful:

Ten Top Trivia Tips about God!
If you drop God from the top of the Empire State Building, he will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground.
If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets God!
God can taste with his feet.
The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armour raised their visors to reveal God.
It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be God!
God can be very poisonous if injected intravenously.
God has only one weakness - the colour yellow.
God cannot jump.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention God.
India tested its first nuclear God in 1974!

Not only that…

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Consciousness!
In Ancient Egypt, people wore glittery eyeshadow made from the crushed shells of consciousness.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and consciousness has 7!
A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but consciousness can not.
If you lace consciousness from the inside to the outside, the fit will be snugger around your big toe!
Consciousness is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
Consciousness can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid!
Consciousness is only six percent water.
Consciousness is black with white stripes, not white with black stripes!
There are 336 dimples on consciousness.
Wearing headphones for an hour will increase the amount of consciousness in your ear 700 times!

And!

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Vomit!
Devoid of its cells and proteins, vomit has the same chemical makeup as sea water.
Koalas sleep for 22 hours a day, two hours more than vomit.
If you lie on your back with your legs stretched it is impossible to sink in vomit.
Two thirds of the world’s eggplant is grown in vomit!
Vomit can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour!
Astronauts get taller when they are in vomit!
The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than vomit, and 400 times smaller.
Vomit is the smallest of Jupiter’s many moons!
Forty percent of the world’s almonds and twenty percent of the world’s peanuts are used in the manufacture of vomit.
There are more than two hundred different kinds of vomit.

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