Please don’t try drilling into your head at home. // 75 hours of drawing in under 2 minutes. // 3D-printed car isn’t fast or pretty. // Floating flower garden. // Fractal forest. // Fluids in a fish tank. // Low frequency fire extinguisher. // Frost. // Free sausage roll. (h/t, Julia) // All the types of Spam. // Symmetrical breakfasts. // Bespoke chocolate faces. Price on request. // A boy and his bird. // I suspect these people may be nerds. // 900,000 photographs of historic New York City. // This. // Commute with a better class of riff-raff. But only in San Francisco. // San Francisco’s summer of ’71. (h/t, Coudal) // An uncompleted tomb. // Soviet pilot cemetery. // Super-typhoon seen from space. // And finally, what happens when you combine Pong, Pac-Man and Space Invaders?
Some art for you.
Posted by: R. Sherman | April 03, 2015 at 01:32
3D-printed car isn’t fast or pretty.
They really shouldn't have used easy-cheese when they printed it.
Posted by: The Lurker on the Threshold | April 03, 2015 at 04:56
This.
I don't know if it's art but I know I like it.
Also like the fluids in a fish tank video. Should I drop my acid now?
Posted by: dw | April 03, 2015 at 07:48
Should I drop my acid now?
It is Friday.
Posted by: David | April 03, 2015 at 08:13
Free sausage roll.
Every cloud...
Posted by: svh | April 03, 2015 at 12:44
Re: the San Francisco 1971 photos. I half expected to see one of Inspector Callahan.
Posted by: sackcloth and ashes | April 03, 2015 at 13:00
I half expected to see one of Inspector Callahan.
I’ve been reliably informed that some of the less, er, savoury establishments are still there.
Posted by: David | April 03, 2015 at 14:05
One for David.
https://twitter.com/gm_stone/status/583933008371183616
Posted by: Joan | April 03, 2015 at 14:21
One for David.
The Guardian is closing its Shoreditch coffee shop? The supposedly high-tech “data-driven” coffee-shop that didn’t have Wi-Fi, and which would have had to sell around 30,000 coffees a day, every day, for at least five years to have any hope of offsetting the Guardian’s annual losses?
Who could have foreseen such a calamity?
Posted by: David | April 03, 2015 at 14:46
Something I learned today from the in-laws that seems to fit the FE criteria. Though perhaps the resident doctor(s) are familiar...
Throckmorton sign, is a term that refers to the position of a penis as it relates to pathology on an x-ray of a pelvis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thomas_sign
Posted by: wtp | April 04, 2015 at 02:39
11-hour video of sleeping puppies.
http://boingboing.net/2015/04/03/watch-five-puppies-sleep-for-e.html
Posted by: Connor | April 04, 2015 at 08:35
I suspect these people may be nerds.
So watching other people watching film trailers is what we're doing now. Okay.
Posted by: Rob | April 04, 2015 at 09:32
So watching other people watching film trailers is what we’re doing now. Okay.
Oh, it’s definitely a thing. I quite like it, in that it highlights the skill that goes into editing a good trailer, the peaks, teases and timing of money shots. And the viewers’ enthusiasm can be quite infectious. Though I’ve never felt a need to clutch my cheeks in shock or wear a plastic Thor helmet.
Posted by: David | April 04, 2015 at 09:41
I'm always up for some DIY trepanation.
EVERYONE should be able to hear the voices in my head.
Posted by: dicentra | April 06, 2015 at 20:00
It's been a great day for Twitter:
Larry Correia pwns Entertainment Weekly.
Sally Kohn remains unclear on the relationship between law and government. Very unclear. Either that or 4chan hacked her account to make her look incredibly foolish.
CBS fails chemistry.
Sci-fi writer John Scalzi twigs to currency not having inherent value.
And finally, Hitler opines on the same-sex wedding cake debate.
Posted by: dicentra | April 07, 2015 at 04:52
Sally Kohn remains unclear on the relationship between law and government.
After a day of good weather and nearby countryside, I’m having to play catch-up. I gather Ms Kohn is “one of the leading progressive voices in America” and “a thorn in the side of the status quo.”
Also logicians.
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What’s fascinating is that, having made an absurd and baffling claim in front of tens of thousands of people, and having had this error pointed out to her dozens of times in dozens of ways, using her own pet causes, Ms Kohn has decided not to concede her mistake and rethink her premises. Instead, she’s doubling down on her own stupidity, as if logic will simply go away if she can talk long enough.
Posted by: David | April 07, 2015 at 07:12
Kohn is being perfectly rational. After decades of this sort of reasoning being taught in higher education, this is the way a significant majority thinks. Especially the part of that majority that has access to the thinking reproduction/reinforcing mechanisms of TV, movies, and education. She may get some pushback for stating this, but she can remain quite confident in her stupidity because that is how anyone she knows who matters thinks. Sure, there may be other people who appear on Fox News who say otherwise but they're just subversive beings (reaching for the Scientology phrase, perhaps that's not it but that's the idea). She is by no means alone nor an outlier.
Posted by: WTP | April 07, 2015 at 11:23
She may get some pushback for stating this, but she can remain quite confident in her stupidity because that is how anyone she knows who matters thinks.
Another leftwing journalist, the New Republic’s Elizabeth Bruenig, seems to have issues with facts and logic. Say, whether a crime actually happened or not, or whether a person was innocent or not. Indeed, says Ms Bruenig, a reliance on such things – that’s facts and logic - is a “rightwing tactic.” You see, we mustn’t let “complications or mitigating factors” – again, facts and logic - get in the way of a hysterical narrative.
Posted by: David | April 07, 2015 at 13:01
Ah...you refer to this Elizabeth Bruening:
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/585224710197219328/photo/1
But again, we're talking even further down the tail of the dog. In this case a young fool who shouldn't have been handed a metaphorical loaded gun. The problem is with who trained her. The problem is who her editor is (tweets aside). These people of greater responsibility need to be called out. To be clear, I'm not excusing her but just saying that the more worthy/effective targets are further upstream. Is/are the school/instructors where she learned her "journalism" being questioned in any way? Do they support this sort of product or do we simply allow them to remain silent, protected in their ivory towers?
Posted by: wtp | April 07, 2015 at 16:32