Over here I found a link to the wonderful map site mapa.co.il; of course Israel showed it to me a while ago, but for some reason I never quite recalled the URL once I sat in front of a computer, and for a long while I’ve been using the far inferior flash-based site at walla. [...]
Let's face it, we've all been frustrated in exams…
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Lolcats Dr. Who Comic (Season 1 finale all spoilered)
Bible Fight! - Mortal Kombat of Biblical proportions.
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From The Register:
the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.
The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every [...]
A while back when the For Want of a Nail alternate history lexicon game was taking place, the theme of a trans-historical struggle of Bicycle vs. Zepplin emerged. Zepplins are the iconic alternate history vehicle, and bicycles were mentioned in the title of my first entry, which inspired others. Rob Macdougall had a brilliant essay [...]
I seem to have completely stopped posting to my blog. Two reasons I can think of for that (aside from the obvious laziness): First, recent versions of WordPress have broken the "Blog This" bookmarklet which used to make it pretty convenient to grab a link and get a new blog entry window to post it [...]
Here's an article by some folk who've made a tool for converted protein sequences into musical tones:
We have converted genome-encoded protein sequences into musical notes to reveal auditory patterns without compromising musicality. … The conversion will help make genomic coding sequences more approachable for the general public, young children, and vision-impaired scientists.
You can go to [...]
A modest proposal from Defective Yeti: Internet Access CAPTCHAs
Is there no end to Apple's obsessive product placement?
Superflous explain-the-joke link for the lazy or google-feeble.
What's sillier then a Dalek? A Dalek with an outrageous accent.
The R.A. Maguire Cover Art gallery features lots of lovely paperback covers from the 50s and 60s, mostly in tawdry genres like crime, detective, exploitation and even science-fiction. The site also has a gallery of photos the artist took for reference to draw the covers.
The overwrought blurbs on these books are sometimes hilarious:
Perfume and Pain [...]
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Rob Macdougall writes about the miserable and disgusting life of Tarrare, an 18th century french man who would literally eat anything. He points to a longer article about the topic on Fortean Times called The Cat Eaters (yes, people who ate live cats), where I learned that Tarrare’s name survives in expressions like Bom-bom tarare [...]
A collaboration between Stan Lee and Jack Chick: GALACTUS IS COMING!
This is cool: strange maps is a blog about maps (doh), from Britain re-conceived as six new USA states, to the planet Mongo and an upside-down south asia.