Friday Ephemera

The drawbacks of working in a music store. // Wealth-wise, where you do fit in? // Tyres that glow. // Lightning, baby. // Humungous bubbles. // Abbey Road webcam. // At last, a use for fly eyes. // Photography by Laurent Nivalle. // Banana vending machine. // I think the word is bijou. // Ice cubes with spikes. // Air plant globe. // An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. // Planetary mass. // Mathematical drawings. // Orbital washing machine. // A brief history of beards. // Teen chat acronym decoder. // St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. // Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.

Comments

[Robert Edwards]

The Ayaan Hirsi Ali interview was interesting but quite why she's considered 'controversial' I cannot imagine, since what she says and writes makes perfect sense to me. A good find!

[svh]

Thanks for the Ayaan Hirsi Ali video. She's great (as usual). Agree with Robert though -the guy interviewing her gets nervous when she says something really obvious like some values are better than others -he looks shocked. When she asks him what's 'rightwing' about what she says he just gets flustered.

[David]

Yes, Jian Ghomeshi’s reactions are quite revealing.

[sk60]

The 'complexity graphics' are beautiful.

[rjmadden]

"At last, a use for fly eyes."

I can top that. At last, a use for fly legs...

http://www.styleite.com/beauty/fly-leg-eyelashes/

Artists, eh?

[Spiny Norman]

A debate between Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Priyamvada Gopal would be interesting indeed, and I suspect Gopal would be reduced to leftist boilerplate gibberish in short order.

[Luther]

Oh wouldn't I love to see that, Spiny. In our dreams though.

As for beards, I had a full one for many years. Pain in the ass, really. Despite that, I've always thought that facial hair is an attempt to hide a fault.