VpGB
The Vibration-powered Generating Battery, just shake for more juice. Why this hasn’t existed sooner is beyond me.
dear clusterflock
I am mucking around with ideas for a new site design. What do you think about threaded comments? For example:
Other suggestions for features are welcome.
If I think about it at all I burst out laughing
A couple days ago I was in Oakland at my best friend’s apartment and she was trying to explain that the family dynamic in the series, Modern Family, is just like my own. She put on an episode where Al Bundy sprays a water bottle at his wife’s teenage Casanova for lusting so blatantly over his vapid granddaughter. Now that is what I call hilarious. Does it do it for you? What funny lines or scenes really stick with you?
Don’t forget, flockers
YOJC = Year Of Junior College.
don’t be a wet owl
Scarlet Tanager
Last night I was impressed with the live show of this Saint Louis band. This is a rare occurrence. (The scarlet tanager, btw, is a gorgeous bird.)
Scotty McTape at the North Pole | For Deron
from someone else’s comments
OUR COUNTRY IS PAYING THE PRICE FOR DUMBING DOWN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM TO ACCOMADATE , AND PAY FOR, THE EDUCATION OF THOSE THAT WOULD BE BETTER SUITED IN VOC-ED COURSES. WE WERE A GREAT COUNTRY WHEN WE EXCELLED IN MATH AND SCIENCES, A DAY THAT HAS NOW PASSED US BY. SCREW THE LIBERALS THAT THINK THEY CAN FORCE SOCIALIST IDEALS ON AMERICA, THESE TIMES THEY WILL BE CHANGING SOON. THE FREE RIDE IS ENDING SOON ! I WISH I COULD FIND A BEAUTIFUL, GOD FEARING, FIERCE MOMMA -BEAR LIKE SARAH TO HANG OUT AT MY CAVE…ANY DAY!!! HAPPY FRIDAY FROM TEXAS- WHERE WE BELIEVE IN PAY AS YOU GO ECONOMICS, OR DO WITHOUT.
As if I needed him to tell me where he was from.
yes I’ve heard of google
Does anyone know the etymology of Scotch tape?
Yet Another Public Law Library Exchange
I need to come up with a title for this series.
Petitioner: Can you tell me what’s the next step after I filed a paternity case?
Librarian: Did you do the next part — motion for genetic testing?
Petitioner: No, because she’s deceased.
How to say goodbye.
“They had them facing one another in their individual beds, and we put their hands on top of one another so they could hold hands,” their daughter said. “Mom was awake. She said, ‘Lou, I love you. I had a wonderful life. I’ll see you in another place.’ ”
Chicago couple was inseparable in life, death
(via @skinnyjeans)
Dawn Landes
It won’t let me embed the video, so just go here. *Grumble*
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
A poem, by James Wright, suggested to me, after a similar complaint, by a good friend:
Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
blowing like a leaf in green shadow.
Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.
To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year’s horses
Blaze up into golden stones.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.
photo out of context
Song A Day #561: The iPhone Antenna Song
In honor of the Big Apple iPhone Antenna-Related Press Conference later today, allow me to present…
headline of the day
quote out of context
The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ.
details
A while ago I overhead someone say: Anus, you need some more snacks?
When Sheila was in town she helped me figure out probably what I heard was someone named their son Aeneas and didn’t know how to pronounce it.
Update: Cindy says:
I think the kid’s named Amos and you heard Anus because you’re you.
Keith Barry at TED, the illusion of a sixth sense
Now I’m going to show everyone how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
restoring the virgin
The 18-month conservation project involved removing much of some badly degraded varnish that was applied to the painting in the late 1940s, enabling experts to take a much closer look at the picture’s brush strokes and styles, the National Gallery said.
The cleaning revealed the painting’s full tonal range, especially in the darker areas, and resulted in a clearer sense of how the artist intended for space to recede through the rocky landscape, the gallery said.
spam name
Minas Stoutamyer.
dear clusterflock
What band, author, director, artist, etc. would you keep, in the public record?
The Social Network Trailer
It’s the cover that makes it. (via fimoculous)
The Extraordinary Case of D.B. Cooper
A man enters an airplane in 1971 with a bomb, demands $200,000 and then disappears into the night.
Following Cooper’s demands, the jet was put into a holding pattern over Puget Sound, while Cooper’s demands for $200,000 and four parachutes were met. [...] Meanwhile, Cooper sat in the airplane, drinking a cocktail of bourbon whiskey and lemon-lime soda, which he would offer to pay for. Tina Mucklow, a flight attendant who spent the most time with the hijacker, remarked Cooper “seemed rather nice,” and thoughtful enough to request the crew be brought meals after the jet landed in Seattle.
You should read the whole Wikipedia article. Fascinating.
avatar from the comment thread of an article on gene expression and smoking
