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Tool-using animals: Now with 100% more invertebrates!
December 14, 2009 2:51 PM
by Maggie Koerth-Baker
Tool-using animals: Now with 100% more invertebrates!
Warning: This video contains footage of an octopus hiding under a coconut shell that it has carried around just in case it needed to hide from something. Watching this footage may contradict your previous assumptions about animal tool use, and may be too adorable for some viewers.
National Geographic: Octopuses Carry Coconut Shells as Instant Shelters
Science awesome delightfulcreatures intelligence invertebrates octopus tool
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Apple - Downloads - Productivity Tools - Christmas Gift
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Christmas Gift 1.0
About Christmas Gift
Offers free Christmas Gift bundle to be used with Apple’s iWeb, Keynote, Pages and Mail software. Christmas Gift package includes one iWeb Theme with static and flash backgrounds, two Keynote Motion Themes, one Keynote Theme, Keynote 3D Stuff, iWeb Animations and Mail Stationery. All the add-ons are ready to inspire Christmas spirit into frequently used Mac Applications. Christmas Gift bundle is probably the best Christmas design solution for the favorite Apple’s software. Christmas is on the way. Everyone should be prepared for Christmas ambience. Creating a web site for Christmas season using new iWeb Theme is very simple. Furthermore it is possible to choose from animated and static backgrounds.
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
Medical horrors
Watch for these symptoms and beware
from the Graphic Novel: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Favorite Caricature of 2009 -1 | AnimHuT
Favorite Caricature of 2009 #1
Today post on Caricature. Before getting deep into in this post, Thanks to
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from Digg
Thursday, December 10, 2009
MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple Macintosh, iTunes, iPhone and more...
Special Pricing
[09 Dec] The latest MacUpdate Bundle offers 11 "core" Mac applications at $49.99, which is 85% off their normal prices. In addition, the first 10,000 purchasers receive three additional applications - PowerTunes, FlagIt and EyeScream DVD Holiday Menus. The 2009 Holiday Bundle includes the following software and runs through Dec. 23:
- PathFinder 5.5 ($39.95) - Finder alternative
- Socialite ($20.00) - Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Google Reader
- Yep ($39.00) - document manager
- Speed Download ($25.00)
- Radio Gaga ($39.99) - Internet radio multi-recorder with 10,000+ stations
- GarageSale ($34.99) - eBay auction manager
- iRip ($19.00) - Copy songs from your iPod back to Mac.
- DragThing ($29.00) - versatile launcher
- HealthNut ($19.00) - track your calories and nutrients
- PCalc 3.5 ($19.00) - scientific calculator
- Machinarium ($19.95) - puzzle/adventure game
via macintouch.com
O especially recommend Pathfinder and Dragthing
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Wasp sculpture from junk mechanical parts Boing Boing
Wasp sculpture from junk mechanical parts
This gorgeous wasp sculpture, c.1980s by artist S. Allen, is for sale at Seattle's Great Stuff shop. It's 24" (h) x 34" (d) x 38" (w). The price is $4,500. "Centered around an industrial light bulb and hundreds of typewriter and printer parts, car door handles, sprockets and springs all assembled with fine-gauge wire; wings made from reclaimed 1/8" acrylic sheeting." Wasp Sculpture (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)
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nice waspy
'As the World Turns' canceled -- latimes.com
CBS has pulled the plug on another long-running soap opera. Just three months after "Guiding Light" aired its final episode, CBS announced Tuesday that it will end "As the World Turns" in September, after 54 years and more than 13,000 episodes. Its cancellation will leave CBS with just two soaps: daytime's most-watched serial, "The Young and the Restless," and "The Bold and the Beautiful."
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And my dearly departed Mother watched at least half of them.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Mutant teddy bear Boing Boing
Mutant teddy bear
Undead Ed's plush Mortimer Mutated Bear is sweet and sickly all at once. I love those eyes!
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I need 2 in my stocking
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009
Crowdsourcing Comedy on Amazon Reviews - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com
Crowdsourcing Comedy on Amazon Reviews
A screen shot of the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk, as sold on Amazon.com.
Every now and then, something for sale on Amazon.com seems so monumentally stupid that it inspires a spontaneous community comedy festival. One person after another leaves phony reviews, each more heartfelt and over-the-top than last, sardonically praising the Amazon item for its astonishing, life-changing abilities. Perfect strangers, entertaining each other in the comments, laughing their heads off—until Amazon gets wind of the stunt and shuts it down.
top of my list for xmas
Macs Take the Top Three Spots for "Most Wished For" on Amazon | Mac|Life
Macs Take the Top Three Spots for "Most Wished For" on AmazonPosted 11/30/2009 at 11:32:53am | by Andrew Villa
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ain't it the truth
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Fall has fell
At my house the leaves drop all at once, just like the whomping tree in Harry Potter.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Beautiful transparent sea-cucumber from the ocean depths - Boing Boing
Beautiful transparent sea-cucumber from the ocean depths
Have a gander at this magnificent transparent sea cucumber, found in the sunless ocean depths by the Census of Marine Life and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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mmmmm cucumbers...wait
Friday, November 20, 2009
Comic on the joy of online reading - Boing Boing
Comic on the joy of online reading
Lucy Knisley's comic "Downloading Optimism: Pessimism Detected" is a thoughtful response to a panel where great indie comix creators (Linda Barry, Jules Feiffer, Matt Groening, Chris Ware) decried online comics and online reading. Click through for the whole thing.
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i say amen to the iphone bookreader
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Google Wave with me
Anyone else out there on Google wave who'd like to test it with me?
Bleeding edge baby, bleeding edge.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lovecraft sculptures - Boing Boing
Lovecraft sculptures
Joe Broers makes Cthulhu Mythos sculptures, which come with "fictitious 'documentation' that helps provide a feeling of verisimilitude to the project."
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yog sotgoth
Goldwag: Books that inspire me - Boing Boing
Goldwag: Books that inspire me
Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.Pesco requested that I write about some of the books that inspired me as I was writing CULTS, CONSPIRACIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES. I'll need to ask for your indulgence, because I'm going to flash back to my boyhood. When I was in the sixth grade, I came across a mass market paperback called IMPOSSIBLE: YET IT HAPPENED, which, I just learned from the magic of the Internet, was written by R. Dewitt Miller in 1947. It was a prime exemplar of what is sometimes called Forteana, after Charles Fort (1874-1932), a failed novelist, close friend of Theodore Dreiser, and avid collector of news clippings about the eerie and the unexplained--he also gave his name to the magazine The Fortean Times (its cover story this month is about Masonic symbols in Washington, DC). Miller's yarns about spontaneous human combustion, ghosts, premonitory dreams, ESP, apparitions of air-born crucifixes in the smoke-filled skies over World War I battlefields, a fortyeight hour-long midnight that enveloped Colonial New England and I don't know what else, scared the living daylights out of me--but at the same time, I couldn't stop reading it, especially at night, by flashlight. It was an addiction and I eventually had the wisdom to go cold turkey, by giving the book away.
Or maybe I should go back even further, to when I was in the third grade, and we all trooped down to the school gym to look at the slides of ruins that a local character--a magician named James Randi--had snapped on his recent trip to the mountains of Peru. I can't remember exactly what I found so interesting about his lecture, but it made a huge impression on me. Maybe he did some sleight of hand tricks. A couple of decades later, Randi embarked on a second career as a Houdini-caliber debunker of psychic frauds. His take-down of Uri Geller on the Tonight Show is still devastating to watch.
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conspiracies are still a kind of hobby with me
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Apple's Soaring Pile Of Cash - chart of the day - Gizmodo
Apple's Soaring Pile Of Cash
Apple brought Steve Jobs back to the company in December 1996. Since then, he's been building a massive pile of cash, rolling out new product after new product.
via gizmodo.com
mmmm tasty piles of cash
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Ichat Theatre - You are playing now!
Just had my first 3 way chat - what a great Apple tool.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Pigeon Impossible - Boing Boing
Pigeon Impossible
Lucas Martell's new animated film, Pigeon Impossible: "A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase." (Thanks, Joaquin Baldwin)
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my favorite clip of the week
Color film of 1927 London - Boing Boing
Color film of 1927 London
This early (1927) color film shows 10 minutes of remarkable vintage London -- especially the Petticoat Lane market scenes around 6:00, which are a rare glimpse into the life of everyday people (it's even cooler if you were actually down on Petticoat Lane yesterday, as I was!).
via boingboing.net
Daughter unit is in London the next few days - looks just like this i suppose
Convert Pantone Colours to RGB
Check out this website I found at ow.ly
for them that needs conversion
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Insane Gadgets or Genius: You Be The Judge: iGadget Life
Body Laptop Interface
Body Laptop Interface – Be one with your environment. Be one with your computer. Now you can do exactly that with the amazing Body Laptop Interface. Designed to give you privacy and intimacy with your computer (at least until the fumes overcome you and you pass out), the interface provides a near-womb like experience with which you can surf to your hearts content without the fear that someone is looking over your shoulder. However, we are pretty sure that they will instead be looking AT you.
via igadgetlife.com
now there's an eye-dee-jah
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age - Boing Boing
Freemasonry, Dan Brown, and the New New Age
Freemasonry and the New Age Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books.
On September 15, 2009, THE LOST SYMBOL came off press. Fans of THE DA VINCI CODE, with more than 80 million copies in print perhaps the bestselling novel of all time, were thrilled--they had been waiting for Dan Brown to write another book for six years. Random House, B&N, and Amazon were delighted; they moved more than a million copies in twenty four hours and another million copies by the end of the week; two months later, it still sits high atop the bestseller lists.
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interesting take on the Dan Brown Phenomena
BBC NEWS | Health | Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
An attack of the grumps can make you communicate better, it is suggestedIn a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.
An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.
via news.bbc.co.uk
oh why don't you shut up
Thursday, November 5, 2009
MacHeist nanoBundle Offers 6 Mac Apps For... Free - Mac Rumors
MacHeist nanoBundle Offers 6 Mac Apps For... Free
Thursday November 05, 2009 09:25 PM EST
Written by Arnold KimA few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacHeist to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their app bundles typically deliver a dozen Mac applications at a significant discount. The latest bundle is a bit of a departure for MacHeist by delivering 6 Mac applications ($154 value) for Free. - ShoveBox ($25) - easily capture important bits of information
- WriteRoom ($25) - a distraction free writing environment
- Twitterific ($15) - popular Twitter client
- TinyGrab ($14) - quickly share screenshots
- Hordes of Orcs ($25) - tower defense game
- Mariner Write* ($50) - fast, streamlined word processor Mariner Write requires 500,000 total bundle participants to be "unlocked". This free bundle ends in 7 days and each application represents the full licenses. Enjoy.
via macrumors.com
go for it
10.6: View debug info about current desktop picture - Mac OS X Hints
Wed, Nov 4 2009 at 7:30AM PST • Contributed by: Joe OReillyWithin the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences pane, pressing Command-Option-D (Show/Hide Dock shortcut) will add two new buttons to the panel: TEST and DEBUG WINDOW. Press Command-Option-D again to remove the buttons. TEST doesn't seem to do anything, but DEBUG WINDOW displays a window that gives you debug information about the current desktop picture.
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hmmmm hidden buttons
MacInTouch: timely news and tips about Apple Macintosh, iTunes, iPhone and more...
Updated Products
Parallels, Inc. released Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac Build 9220, a major update of the virtualization software. Highlights of this release include support for Snow Leopard as both host and guest, Snow Leopard 64-bit support, a Windows WDDM driver with DX and OpenGL support, multi-monitor support for Windows and Linux guests, improved performance of the virtualization engine, assignment of up to eight virtual CPUs to a single virtual machine, better performance for Boot Camp virtual machines, a revised interface, MacLook (to make Windows applications look more Mac-like), and much more. Parallels Desktop is $79.99 ($49.99 upgrade) for Mac OS X 10.4.11 and up (Intel Macs only).
Bare Bones Software's BBEdit 9.3 is a feature and maintenance update for the popular all-around text, HTML, and programmer's editor. This feature and maintenance release offers enhancements to the Projects function, including support for Finder saved searches and more flexibility in handling non-text files, plus support for creating language-specific ctags for autocompletion, a button to create new files and folders in FTP/SFTP browsers, support for combining clipping sets when working in mixed-language files, a bbfind command-line tool, and other changes. BBEdit is $125 for Mac OS X 10.4 and up (Universal Binary) including Snow Leopard.
via macintouch.com
both of these are great tools
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Periodic Table Table - Boing Boing
Periodic Table Table
I dig this Periodic Table Table that appeared on MAKE. One commenter there says he thinks it's from the Wake Forest University campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Great idea for a... science park. (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)
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more more redundency redundency
CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM – Tin House Books Blog
CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM
By Tony October 6, 2009 – 2:19 pm
Tin House #41 should be hitting your mailboxes or newsstand any day now. The dual theme is Hope/Dread (our designer, the fabulous Janet Parker, created stunning covers for each). In the dread corner, look for Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Alex Lemon, Matthea Harvey, and other doomsayers. Flying the colors of hope, we have Karen Russell, Abigail Thomas, Mahmoud Darwish, Matthea Harvey (she’s good enough to have her cake and eat it too), and, as you’ll see below, Cory Doctorow. The “Genre” label created something of a controversy on this site awhile back, but Doctorow’s take on what Science Fiction is capable of is pretty tough to argue with.
CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM
Every writer has a FAQ—Frequently Awkward Question—or two, and for me, it’s this one: “How is it possible to work as a science fiction writer, predicting the future, when everything is changing so quickly? Aren’t you afraid that actual events will overtake the events you’ve described?”
It’s a fresh-scrubbed, earnest kind of question, and the asker pays the compliment of casting you as Wise Prognosticator in the bargain, but I think it’s junk. Science fiction writers don’t predict the future (except accidentally), but if they’re very good, they may manage to predict the present.
intelligent essay
Bus-shelter made out of a bus - Boing Boing
Bus-shelter made out of a bus
Here's a sweet bus-shelter made out of a bus -- the irony is that the bus that stops here is made out of a bus-shelter.
Dumping auto waste or old auto parts is one of the major problems for most nations across the world. Resurrecting old school buses, sculptor and designer Christopher Fennell has devised a bus shelter that not only looks unique but also helps in reducing the huge piles of auto waste. Made of selective parts and pieces from three iconic school buses, from the years '62, '72 and '77, and old city line seats, the yellow bus shelter is a unique way to attract people toward recycling and adopting a green lifestyle. Check out the video after the jump.
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redundant? I don't think so
Monday, November 2, 2009
Praying mantis in my backyard - Boing Boing
Praying mantis in my backyard
I was doing a little work in the back yard yesterday when I cam across a praying mantis. I don't see too many, and this one was a handsome specimen so I took a couple of photos. I also shot a video, but he didn't do much other than lick his foreleg for a while. Maybe I'll upload it later on.
via boingboing.net
I'm getting a "Friend to Mantids" T-shirt, they are splendid creatures
Marvel Horror comix from the 70's
Anyone else remember these? Color covers with B&W interiors.
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