Yukio Ota’s exit sign
Fans of Ota’s running man point to two key advantages: It’s a pictogram, and it’s green.
And plenty more on international vs. American signage.
Flyfire
MIT’s hypothetical 3D display composed of LED-fitted remote control helicopters.
Mechanical fireflies could help create a new kind of 3-D display, say researchers at MIT.
Standing in for the bioluminescent beetles will be LED-fitted, remotely controlled micro-helicopters that can be choreographed electronically to display shapes and images as they hover in midair. The project, called Flyfire, would use RC helicopters similar to the toys sold at the mall today.
1948 Norman Timbs Special
half cock
Unlike mammals, it’s not hormones that dictate a chicken’s sex. It’s a fundamental property of the cells themselves. But this only became apparent when biologists investigated several odd chickens that were half male and half female, as if a line were drawn down the center of their bodies.
Home Improvement
Around the first of the year, we noticed some rotting wood at the bottom of the French doors in our living room. Daryl, in his usual master crafstman manner, slapped silver duct tape on it. It looks as elegant as you would imagine, and was prominently on display during each of the February visits from fellow flockers Sheila, Deron, Amy, and Phil.
So today I am making a special trip to Big Lots to purchase a roll of white duct tape. Because, look–I have my standards.
Who Needs History
AUSTIN – Republicans on the State Board of Education soundly rejected a Democratic-backed proposal Thursday that would have required Texas students to be taught the reasons behind the prohibition of a state religion in the Bill of Rights.
See the whole sad tale here.
Chatroulette, Texas
Other hotbeds of connectivity can be espied here.
indivisible
Check out this comment thread.
quote out of context
Oh man, what a bummer.
A thought occurred to me
there in the shark tunnel with Deron.
Chatroulette Map
We can geolocate pervs now. (via)
Ji Yong-Ho, Tire Art
Tron Legacy
I pretty much just expect about an hour of eye candy, but I am still going to go see it.
So. You want to go for it, do you?
No good will come of cloning Neanderthals.
Hey, Deron
Remember that time Beavis called 911 to tell them that Butthead was choking? On chicken? And the 911 operator asked if he’d heimliched the victim? And Beavis said, “Did I lick his rectum? NO WAY! But, like, there was this one time….”?
That was funny.
cloning neanderthals
Hawks believes the barriers to Neanderthal cloning will come down. “We are going to bring back the mammoth…the impetus against doing Neanderthal because it is too weird is going to go away.” He doesn’t think creating a Neanderthal clone is ethical science, but points out that there are always people who are willing to overlook the ethics. “In the end,” Hawks says, “we are going to have a cloned Neanderthal, I’m just sure of it.”
I love the future.
(via marginal revolution)
Surfer Blood – Catholic Pagans
The Weezer comparison seems to be common in my music circles. Pitchfork also makes it.
[http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/SurferBlood_CatholicPagans.mp3]
So, a lion, two sheep, and a bear are pulling a cart…
from the comments
On the other hand, desires and dreams can be simultaneously robust and fragile, and a few words of heartfelt encouragement from a mysterious stranger can change a person’s life.
Jihad Jane
There is a novel in the details of this as well.
Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend’s father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.
But online, federal authorities say, the devoted caretaker developed a daring alter ego, refashioning herself as “Jihad Jane” while helping recruit and finance Muslim terrorists — and eventually moving overseas to try to kill an artist she perceived as an enemy to Islam.
it’s all over now, baby blue
This feels transformational: Imagine the Paul Bunyan story calibrated to human creativity. Now imagine a programmer has come up with an algorithm that creates beautiful, organic music, stuff that would have taken years to compose, effortlessly.
Cope thinks the old cliché of beauty in the eye of the beholder explains the situation well: “The dots and lines on paper are merely triggers that set things off in our mind, do all the wonderful things that give us excitement and love of the music, and we falsely believe that somewhere in that music is the thing we’re feeling,” he says. “I don’t know what the hell ‘soul’ is. I don’t know that we have any of it. I’m looking to get off on life. And music gets me off a lot of the time. I really, really, really am moved by it. I don’t care who wrote it.”
Good luck on that novel.
(via kottke)
Black Penguin
King Penguins are notorious for their prim, tuxedoed appearance — but a recently discovered all-black penguin seems unafraid to defy convention. In what has been described as a “one in a zillion kind of mutation,” biologists say that the animal has lost control of its pigmentation, an occurrence that is extremely rare. Other than the penguin’s monochromatic outfit, the animal appears to be perfectly healthy — and then some. “Look at the size of those legs,” said one scientist, “It’s an absolute monster.”
from the spam
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The ending has a twist — that’s all I’ll say
Roly Poly
You can always count on me.
