Friday Ephemera

Now you can have aeroplane aisle trolleys in your own home. // Couch surfing. // Desktop jellyfish. // Developing bulletproof skin. // Behind the scenes at various museums. (h/t, Coudal) // At last, a device to mute aggravating celebrities. // 10 desolate countries. // Made of wax. // 8 Hours in Brooklyn. // Bottle cap nautilus. // A very large gallery of ballerinas. // A beginner’s guide to hamburger text markup language. // How pencils are made. // New York City, day to night. // Slopeflying, Norway. // And via MeFi... Fearlessly reviewing Finland’s finest salty liquorice sweets. “My entire tongue went numb and I had difficulty breathing.”

Comments

[TimT]

Woo hoo! We're on the desolate list! Aussie Aussie Aussie, etc.

[JuliaM]

That recycled nautilus is a real work of art!

[mlrosty]

Now you can have aeroplane aisle trolleys in your own home.

If they keep beer cold I'll take two.

[carbon based lifeform]

David, here's one:

Why the cuts are needed...

http://order-order.com/2011/08/19/why-the-cuts-are-needed/

[David]

Carbon,

It’s the nature of bureaucracy.

[Sam]

Some telling cultural differences...

http://ukcommentators.blogspot.com/2011/08/welsome-to-england.html

[Steve]

David

Better put the lads in the basement on this one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/aug/18/aliens-destroy-humanity-protect-civilisations

We're lost, I tell you, lost.

[svh]

HP ribs Laurie Penny.

http://hurryupharry.org/2011/08/19/little-sister-rejects-big-brother/

Michael Ezra rushes to her defence in the comments. ;D

[Min]

I am disappointed to report that we won’t have the pleasure of watching Laurie ‘voice of a generation’ Penny on the new series of Celebrity Big Brother

Oh no! That would've been guaranteed car crash television. There's no way she'd survive a week without cracking up - really, really badly.

[David]

svh,

“Michael Ezra rushes to her defence in the comments.”

Heh. The “reasoned, sensible debate we desperately need,” says the hyperbolical ideologue and incorrigible liar who likes the idea of “upsetting” the police, who disdains moderation and restraint as “near non-involvement in politics,” and who equates a modest cap on housing benefit with the Nazis’ Final Solution.

Endemol should put TV cameras inside Laurie’s head.