A pointless medley of assorted links, mostly to clean out my bookmarks / bloglines account:
- Robert Rodriguez’s 10-minute Film School.
- Fortean Times Gallery (old link from boingboing moldering in my bloglines account).
- Kottke’s best links of 2004, a set of fine articles and essays he’s linked to over the year. Surprising how many of them I remember reading.
- The Edge asks a bunch of clever people
What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
. Here are Kottke’s favorites, and here are Kakapo’s. The ones who have an idiosyncratic peculiar belief are more fun than the one’s who get all philosophical and evasive, but being without a K-initial, I consider myself free from the duty of listing my own favorites. A good browse, though. - Ian Hickson proves evolution (well, the principal of natural selection), using coins. I think this was apropos those appalling accounts of American biology teachers being ordered to tell their class that natural selection is “a theory” and point students to creationist pamphlets. I actually did something similar myself once, although I was simulating a pigeon in a skinner box, not a population of pennies.
- Jwz shows us what the internet looks like, and tracks an alarming tendency in news photography to use giant heads.