space station
science officer don pettit looks at thin liquid films. neat.
list of celebrities and other prominent individuals who have experienced being homeless.
with
new super-repellent plastic self-washing buildings, cheap diagnostic chips, and free-flowing honey jars are now possible.
skyscraper
escape pods have been
panned by the n.y.c. office of emergency management.
chatter about the quantum measurement problem. wondering whether our universe will be assimilated by a larger "parallel" universe.
using a quantum computer for
counterfactual computation: inferring information about an answer without actually running the computer (?)
a few
words from joe sacco & art spiegelman on the danish cartoon beef.
with the
hideousness now only a memory a few of christo's slaves
speak up.
ever had the urge to build your own hoverboard? here's a
how-to.
v.voice
piece on the birth and life of the 9-11 truth movement (
via)
essay: search engines, wiki's, and blogs are changing some time-honored assumptions about written communication. (
via)
ice worms aren't just
legend or
local color. they're
real and with the glaciers melting possibly in danger. poor
ice worms.
enjoy the gorgeous images and otherwise interesting watchmakery stuff in ron decorte's notebook. (
via)
episode of whacky 70's, live-action, japanese spiderman show.
vid here.
grant barrett (of
d.t.w.w.) has a personal
site: the lexicographer’s rules (thnx kurt)
new technology allows researchers to
probe how the brain contributes to a sense of self and to perceptions of one's body and its control.
in-depth
look at those staple attractions of amusement parks and carnivals everywhere, the dark ride and the funhouse. (
via)
the face on the $1 bill is not the real George Washington. So say experts who are re-creating what he
really looked like in 3-dimensions.
new scanner darkly
trailer is up. loved waking life, can't wait for this.
astronomers
looking for extraterrestrial life now have a short
list of places to point their telescopes.
check out these kick-ass animated
spots which were
supposedly submitted for clients and rejected. funny. (
via)
disclaimer: I am not a
rocket scientist, merely an amateur that has read a lot of books. Any and all of the information on these pages may be incorrect or inaccurate. (
via)
on september 14, 2002, kurt steiner of emporium, pa,
skipped a rock and made it into the record books.
donald
kuspit on spiritualism and nihilism in modern
art. see
here for more of his critical history.
if you haven't seen this
contract of wifely expectations yet give it a
look. it's a doozie
it's a
question that has taxed generations of the finest minds in physics: do humans swim slower in syrup than in water? (
via)