Friday Ephemera

Even if you feel a very strong urge, don’t try this at home. // Age of Tin Man. // User preference. (h/t, Kristian) // Throwable panoramic ball camera. // Unfortunate technical gaffe of note. // How to detect a nuclear weapon test. // Chicago below. // Sweet Dreams banjo-style. // More joys of public transport. // The puzzle of baldness. // She’s a big girl. // Battle of wits. (h/t, Dr W) // Ice cream in Cuba. “I thought this was a bus stop.” // Crash helmets of note. // Tiny hand-thrown pottery. // Parts of speech. // Restoration. // “An erratic structure brought to life by mechanical agitations.” // Mechanical calculator. // Victorian data visualisation. // At last, your very own bioluminescent desktop dinoflagellates. // And finally, for the adventurous, hold on to your lunch. 

Comments

[Captain Nemo]

565 pages of classical beauty and modern ugliness:

http://archimaps.tumblr.com/

[Simen Thoresen]

hold on to your lunch.

This reminds me of the basic science;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVeHxUVkW4w

Very nice though - and now, weekend :)

Hugs,
-S

[Joan]

The Woof Washer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J01jGldE9BA

[Joan]

And finally, for the adventurous, hold on to your lunch.

Didn't Jodie Foster use that to get to Vega?

[David]

Didn’t Jodie Foster use that to get to Vega?

Heh. “Inconceivable dimensions not shown.”

[svh]

Unfortunate technical gaffe of note.

Ouch.

Things cut in half. http://cavemancircus.com/2015/07/02/31-things-cut-in-half-to-reveal-their-complicated-inner-workings/

[David]

Another great moment in local council efficiency.

[rjmadden]

More joys of public transport.

Number 23... words fail me.

[David]

Number 23... words fail me.

Yes, the term human being covers a wide range of material.

[David]

Hot lion needs help.

[Hal]

More trigger warning commentary . . .

[dicentra]

This proves it: Laurie Penny is a parody:

You may think I just knocked over a cup of tea because I'm a klutz. Actually I'm taking a stand against the patriarchal notion of competence

Also, #PregancyForAll,">https://twitter.com/hashtag/PregnancyForAll">#PregancyForAll, @YoungElfwick and @GodfreysMum

[dicentra]

This proves it: Laurie Penny is a parody:

You may think I just knocked over a cup of tea because I'm a klutz. Actually I'm taking a stand against the patriarchal notion of competence

Also, #PregancyForAll,">https://twitter.com/hashtag/PregnancyForAll">#PregancyForAll, @YoungElfwick and @GodfreysMum

[dicentra]

HTML Fail: #PregancyForAll

[David]

Actually I’m taking a stand against the patriarchal notion of competence

That would explain the journalism.

[Captain Nemo]

Protests involving the dumping of tea? Meh, it's been done. She's not even original.

[Argh]

You know, I think that might be the first recorded sighting of a sense of humour in Laurie Penny. Reads like self-deprecation and an undercutting of her usual THE WORLD IS ON FIRE routine to me.

It's the end of days :-o

That she feels the need to broadcast such a pointless, inconsequential thing as knocking a cup of tea over, however - and that said pointless utterance is framed in such a way as to assume that the reader cares enough to have an opinion on the event - suggests her self-obsession and self-importance remain as monumental as ever.

Actually, given her history, I doubt she spilled a cup of tea at all.

[we_smell_sausage]

Complacent snake schooled by badass bunny. Impressive backflip at 1' 15".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MHUlVIJy94

(via https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/rabbit_beating_.html)

[Gregoryno6]

Age of Tin Man looks a lot better than Avengers Grimm - a film which I would only recommend to my worst enemy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4296026/