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• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

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• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

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• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

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• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

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• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

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• Bookmark Philip K Dick journals to be published next year

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

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• Bookmark Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye

  A proposal to change the formal name of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has significant implications for research in the life sciences.. Even if you haven’t worked directly with Drosophila…

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• Bookmark Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori

  It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the…

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• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

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  (A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆)

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• Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding

  A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

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• Flickr Acoustic Prosthesis

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• Flickr Michael Unwrapped

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• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

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• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

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• Flickr First Prize (as a side of bacon)

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• Flickr A Batman Christmas

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• Flickr wildlife photographer

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• Flickr TV Specs

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• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

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• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

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• Bookmark Ten movies that never should have been made—and thankfully weren't

  Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds, it…

  June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments

• Tumblr Testing the flotation dynamics and swimming abilities of giraffes by way of computational analysis

  June 12 2010, 9:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In…

  Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan - or in…

  May 14 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Bookmark My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The premise?…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark Could a Mini Horse Be Bred Small Enough to Fit in Your…

  The world’s smallest horse was born in late April on a farm in New Hampshire. Weighing in at 6 pounds at birth, Einstein appears to have beaten the previous record holder…

  May 4 2010, 2:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Philip K Dick journals to be published next year

  The Exegesis, much anticipated by fans of the writer, will come out in autumn 2011, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt revealed. Dick, who died in 1982 at the age of 53, had…

  May 4 2010, 2:28am | Comments

• Wikipedia The Game (mind game) There are three rules to The Game: Everyone in the world is playing The Game. (Sometimes narrowed to: "Everybody in the world who knows about The Game is playing The Game",[4] or alternatively, "You are always playing The Game.") Whenever one thinks about…

  April 27 2010, 7:11am | Comments

• Bookmark Drosophila, We Hardly Knew Ye

  A proposal to change the formal name of Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has significant implications for research in the life sciences.. Even if you haven’t worked directly with Drosophila…

  April 21 2010, 10:58am | Comments

• Bookmark Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori

  It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to the…

  April 20 2010, 3:40pm | Comments

• Portfolio hellograndad.com

  April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments

• YouTube

  April 3 2010, 3:44am | Comments

• Bookmark Sceptic challenges guru to kill him live on TV

  When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or merely nodded unquestioningly. Sanal Edamaruku’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:49pm | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments

• Flickr Rational Robot

  February 17 2010, 4:16pm | Comments

• Bookmark Time

  (A Glitch Lecture by ∆¥∆)

  February 10 2010, 12:33pm | Comments

• Flickr Special Man

  January 11 2010, 10:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Evidence of Everything Exploding

  A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

  January 5 2010, 7:54am | Comments

• YouTube

  December 19 2009, 7:55am | Comments

• Flickr Acoustic Prosthesis

  December 17 2009, 3:55pm | Comments

• Flickr Michael Unwrapped

  December 8 2009, 4:17am | Comments

• Flickr MegaJoy

  December 8 2009, 2:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Into the Uncanny Valley

  Disturbing experiences that feel both familiar and strange are instances of the “uncanny,” an intuitive concept, yet one that has defied simple explanation for more than a century. Interest in the…

  December 7 2009, 5:08pm | Comments

• Portfolio Podcasts Ahoy!

  December 7 2009, 11:44am | Comments

• Flickr First Prize (as a side of bacon)

  December 5 2009, 3:48am | Comments

• Flickr A Batman Christmas

  November 22 2009, 2:41am | Comments

• Flickr wildlife photographer

  November 20 2009, 3:46am | Comments

• Flickr TV Specs

  October 16 2009, 3:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Oklo Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. The discovery in September 1972 of several natural nuclear fission reactors in the uranium mines situated there has fired the imagination and aroused…

  September 28 2009, 9:07am | Comments

• Ask Metafilter Offsetting sea level rise: An engineering idea of Biblical proportions | Ask Metafilter The seas are rising. Climate change has made it inevitable. I have a strange question... Assuming that world sea-level rises by 1 metre over the next hundred years - Would it be possible to cordon off a section of land, somewhere in the…

  September 18 2009, 8:12am | Comments

• Bookmark If zombies actually existed

  If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out…

  August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 2 2009, 10:49am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 19 2009, 5:30pm | Comments

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