No No: A Dockumentary
A couple weeks ago, prompted by this boingboing post, I pointed the car in the direction of Brookline, Mass and headed out for Short Notice Movie Night. I am not a huge baseball fan, but I am a BIG fan … Continue reading
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1-31-07, 5 years on
* The 2007 Boston bomb scare occurred on January 31, 2007 when the Boston Police Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards resembling the Mooninite characters in the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force found throughout Boston, Massachusetts and the surrounding cities … Continue reading
Fuertes and Abyssinia
This is the peanut butter cup of Biodiversity Heritage Library serendipity – two wonderful things that are even better in combination. Via the BioDivLibrary Flickrstream, the Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals From Paintings by Louis Aggasiz Fuertes. Fuertes, for … Continue reading
The Garden of Eden
-or- “I had a hunting territory in Africa at the bottom of the Olduvai Gorge.” A month back, I noticed and commented on this BB post. Like other commenters I recognized it from the Life Nature Library (Early Man, to be precise). … Continue reading
Internet serendipity
This [Boing Boing]: – Rick Prelinger sez, “My spouse Megan Prelinger is about to take to the road with her show of paleofuturistic ads from the early, go-go years of the space race. While the images are fascinating in print, … Continue reading
Ekranoplan 903
I’ve mentioned ekranoplans on the blog before; in honor of igor113’s truly incredible photoset, here’s a collection of Lun (‘dove’ or ‘hen harrier’ – not clear – but certainly not ‘logical unit number‘) linkage. * Wing-In-Ground (WIG) effect craft take … Continue reading
NASA Finds Shrimp Where No Advanced Life Should Be: 600 Feet Beneath Antarctic Ice
NASA Finds Shrimp Where No Advanced Life Should Be: 600 Feet Beneath Antarctic Ice | 80beats | Discover Magazine. There’s a lot more going on beneath those huge sheets of Antarctic ice than you might think. NASA researchers say they … Continue reading
Fantastic QR Code implementation
(Cross-posted from Mediated Toynbee, because I like it so much.) Don’t want to give anything away – it’ll become obvious very quickly. Via BBG.
Three completely unrelated links
First – an excellent post – Hunting and Fishing Like Adults – over at Patrick’s place. Coincidentally, I recently watched the No Reservations ep where Frances Mallman talks about patience – an underrated virtue in today’s world. * Second – … Continue reading
Three links
From E, a link to Bungalow in a Box – nice little cottages suitable for a variety of things. I’m thinking on a ridge overlooking salt marsh up in Pembroke (ME). -*- Via Bruce Sterling, some marvelous haecking. Rhinoceros was … Continue reading
Trackwork
I have to agree with Dale Dougherty (guestblogging over at BB) – nothing enhances a Christmas tree like a loop of model/toy train track (model NEQ toy, but either one works). The comment thread on Dale’s post was a good … Continue reading
AV Gadgetry
Over the past six months I’ve picked up a few pieces of hardware that have changed my media consumption habits a bit. Brief descriptions/reviews: Sans Digital AccuNAS AN2L – network storage. I bought one at work to use as a … Continue reading