I watched a particle crawl randomly along the edge of a straight razor
Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.
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Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia
Welcome to Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program – MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
* Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
* Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
* Each article has a curator – typically its author — who is responsible for its content.
* Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version.
Herein also lies the greatest differences between Scholarpedia and traditional print media: while the initial authorship and review processes are similar to a print journal, articles in Scholarpedia are not frozen and outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing process of improvement moderated by their curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be up-to-date, yet maintain the highest quality of content.
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My Phone is so hot
My phone rocks, I finally got around to repairing it, and I LOVE it. I have it in a more classy shiney black though, super hot.
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All Creatures Great and Small
Meet the Crew: Dot, Gael, Jon, Spot, and Cap. They’re border collies who live and work at Border Collie Rescue in North Yorkshire.
The volunteers there rescue, train and find homes for these extraordinary dogs.
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TRANSIT – an art deco murder mystery
T.R.A.N.S.I.T. is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920’s and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the “vacation” back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
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black sheep aus!
The nationalist Swiss People’s Party (who garnered 26% of the vote in the last elections) is proposing a deportation policy reminiscent of Nazi-era practices. Under the plan, entire families would be expelled if their children are convicted of a violent crime, drug offense or benefits fraud. And get a load of their black sheep poster campaign, or their 2004 poster, with the dreaded black hand reaching for (gasp!) a Swiss passport. Yodel-odel-ay-eeeeeee-who?
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25 Years Later, It’s Still Dark and Rainy
Ridley Scott is presenting Blade Runner: The Final Cut, a re-edited version of the cyber-punk classic, at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
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Totally Stoked
Texify is a pretty convenient web-based way to typeset LaTeX equations and get a linkable image.
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Strangelove’s Doomsday: fiction meets facts
Dr. Strangelove’s Doomsday device may be more fact than fiction. We’ve had doomsday stories here before, but what if dead hand control of nuclear devices is real? Perhaps live-hand control is better. You could always try your hand at a nuclear apocalypse.
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Who’s your daddy now?!
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It will get on all your disks, It will infiltrate your chips, Yes it’s Cloner!
The Computer Virus Turns 25. “I guess if you had to pick between being known for this and not being known for anything, I’d rather be known for this. But it’s an odd placeholder for (all that) I’ve done.” In 1982, ninth-grade student Rich Skrenta decided to play a prank on his friends. He wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is thought to be the first computer virus to be unleashed “in the wild.” Related: A History Of Viruses.
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How long will you live?
An insurance company’s cute little flash application tells you how long you’re going to live.
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Good Night, Sweet Icarus
R.I.P Paul B. MacCready Paul MacCready, inventor of the Gossamer Condor, the first human powered heavier-than-air aircraft, and the Gossamer Albatross, the first human powered aircraft to cross the English Channel, has died, according to AeroVironment, the company he founded.
“You can do all kinds of things if you just plunge ahead,” he said in an interview with Science in 1986. “It doesn’t mean you’re any good at them, but you can be good enough.”
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ZetaFlow
ZetaFlow. Blow up a few of his spaceships, then build your own to blow up. Some instructions inside.
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Influence Me
John Lennon’s Jukebox (BBC,Google vid,48min)
wiki “In 1989, John Lennon’s jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie’s, and was sold for £2,500 to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox � specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic � in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour. Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs catalogued in Lennon’s spidery handwriting. When Midwinter developed cancer, and his health began to deteriorate, his desire to see the player featured in some kind of documentary became all the more important.”
Guardian article,music.
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Body parts
News stories about washed up body parts are quite rare, which makes the latest case off Vancouver even more unusual.
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You haven’t been eaten, until you’ve been eaten by a grue
Let’s Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction)
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No thanks! I am going home to masturbate!
The Midwest Teen Sex Show is a podcast for teens and adults covering the wonderful, awkward, stimulating, sticky world of sex.
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LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES
Ghetto Man roasts the Superheroes As Scott Tipton says, “No superhero movie, no matter how bad, how awful, how soul-numbingly un-good in every sense of the word, can hurt me. I’ve seen LEGENDS OF THE SUPERHEROES. Truly, nothing else comes close
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The Knee Bones connected to the …
I am Loving these anatomically correct knee-socks — they remind me of Grade Six Hallowe’en skeleton costumes. It’d go wicked with this shirt.
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Mini-telescope eye implant
When implanted in the eye, mini-telescopes like this one could help aging individuals with macular degeneration, a disorder of the retina affecting more than 1.75 million people in the United States alone. The implant was a huge help for two thirds of more than 200 patients who participated in a recent clinical trial. The developers of the technology, VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, hope that FDA approval for the mini-scope is imminent. From Scientific American:
The implantable mini-scope… works with the eye’s cornea like a telephoto system, rendering an enlarged retinal image designed to reduce the area of diminished vision. Once implanted, the device protrudes 0.1 to 0.5 millimeter beyond the surface of the pupil but does not touch the corneal endothelium, a layer of cells lining the back of the cornea.
This is not an easy fix, however, and surgeons are developing special techniques to properly and swiftly implant the device without damaging the eye. The device is a compound telescope system that consists of a glass cylinder that is 4.4 millimeters in length and 3.6 millimeters in diameter and houses wide-angle micro-optics.
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Vintage ads for new stuff photoshopping contest
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest — vintage-style adverts for contemporary products. This Wii ad is just fantastic — and there’s plenty more gold up there in today’s entries.
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Color matching coffee/tea cup
Suck UK designed this fun mug printed with a color matching guide. The MyCuppa helps you add just the right amount of cream by matching the color of the mixture you seek. It’s available in models for coffee or tea.
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