Monday, March 19, 2007

A map of Human Genetic Function


This may be one of the coolest things I have ever seen.

(Discovered from this article.)

Clicking on Viral Protein to see the genetic material you have picked up from a virus... amazing.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Darkon

A LARP Documentary. I want to see this.

Friday, March 09, 2007

Arcade Reality

Best Treo Game Ever.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Orwell on Euphemism


A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details.


I do not remember reading this essay before. It is brilliant.

Thanks to Guy...

MUJI is coming to NY!

This is fantastic news... I've been waiting for this ever since I read Pattern Recognition.

MUJI.

ESC 2007 | Switzerland | DJ Bobo - Vampires Are Alive

The creation of this video entails one of the worst combinations of music and money in the entire history of either.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Yulia & Laura


Yulia & Laura
Originally uploaded by satmandu.
ComicCon Saturday.

Fillion as James Tiberius Kirk?


The Register suggests that Nathan Fillion (Serenity, Slither, Firefly, Angel, Drive) would be a better Kirk in the next Star Trek Movie (an original series prequel) than Matt Damon.

I for one could be easily convinced...

Besides, isn't there a rule that important Trek actors need to be born in the Commonwealth?

Fillion is from Edmonton.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Best Comic Ever

Some Music Should Not Be Used In Food Commercials


For instance, Wendy's commercial for the Mozzarella Lovers' Bacon Cheeseburger uses The Violent Femmes' song Blister in the Sun.

Some might think this is disturbing...

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

reliant robin

Why don't they show Top Gear in the states? A fantastic, fantastic clip...

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Shades of Cake or Death?

Sweden's Penal Code lists the penalty for Murder 1 to be "ten years or life" imprisonment.

I bet they have a lower murder rate too.

And don't get me started about their gini coeff.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Designing for Traffic


I went to the Museum of the City of New York's Robert Moses exhibit.

Robert Moses is arguably the single man respponsible for what NYC is today. He built several tunnels, bridges, Lincoln Center, and was a major backer of bringing the UN to NYC (beating out Philadelphia).

He also suggested several multilane freeways through Manhattan, across Canal, connecting the Holland Tunnel & the Brooklyn & Manhattan bridges, across Manhattan at 30th st, and even a non-freeway extension of 5th Avenue down through a newly former Washington Square Park, via Fifth Avenue South (neƩ West Broadway) and down to the new Canal St freeway.

Tony noted that the exhibit was completely crowded with people.

Perhaps if there had been an overhead expressway to alleviate congestion at a Moses Exhibit...

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Haggard Now ``Completely Heterosexual''

So says the AP article.

Truly, it must be a miracle.

Err, or magic.

Ok. I'm done now.

Haggard Now ``Completely Heterosexual''

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 6, 2007

Filed at 9:59 a.m. ET

DENVER (AP) -- One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is ''completely heterosexual.''

Friday, February 02, 2007