Archive for February, 2009

Two time capsules buried at Flushing Meadow, to be uncovered 5000 years after being buried.

Its sort of amazing that all the high-profile jabs that Republicans have made against government spending have been against totally reasonable science programs that, on the whole, don't really cost that much.

"We wouldn't be surprised if 10 years from now there are mermaids swimming about in your local pool."

Saw Jill Magid speak at the New Museum last night.

Affordable portfolio exoskeleton, for those of us who've been working nonprofits for our whole lives and so have never done anything bigger than a laser printer can spit out.

A provisional page for every photo on flickr where Kio makes a good point, in tagging, notes, comments, or whatever.

Survey of lettering from Brooklyn.

The Times has a column called Really? debunking (or bunking) medical hearsay. Really? Is maybe the best title for anything I've read in a while.

Essay on the use of technology among Amish communities.

"Some ant nests are so enormous that they are akin to the skeletons of whales. Those of one species of leafcutter ant from South America, for example, can contain nearly two thousand individual chambers, some with a capacity of fifty liters, and they can involve the excavation of forty tons of earth and extend over hundreds of square feet. Coordination within such giant colonies, which can house eight million individual ants, occurs through ant communication systems that are extraordinarily sophisticated and are the equivalent of the human nervous system."

Everything old is new again. "There is a limit of one plenary indulgence per sinner per day."

A tumblr aggregating posts to Twitter about dreams involving Barack Obama.

Uploaded with Darkslide.

They were actually more comfortable that way, if you can believe it.

Uploaded with Darkslide.

Uploaded with Darkslide.

One-stop shopping for open source type, suitable for @use in css3.

"You can tell Gayle, if she calls, / That I'm famous now for all of these rock and roll songs. / And even if that's a lie, she should've given me a try."

URL-based methods for adding events to Yahoo and Google (and MSN) calendars. Also includes link for quick documentation of creating and serving .ics files.