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December 31, 2008
Category: Department of the Drama
In honor of yet another pi x 10^7 seconds of my life evaporating, here's a sign from our hotel in Idaho: "Temporally out of order" just seemed like an extremely fortuitous typo. . . happy new year....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Words
Cool words I should have known but didn't
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Category: DC
Leo Villareal's new LED installation brightens the National Gallery of Art
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:25 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2008
Category: Ephemera
We had a bit too much snow (4+ feet) while in Washington state last week, but darn, I'd forgotten how beautiful a snowflake is. (And hard to photograph.)...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:43 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Film, Video & Music
I've been a big fan of mashups ever since Freelance Hellraiser superposed Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" on the Strokes' "Hard to Explain." But what happens when the pop music monoculture becomes so homogenous, you can mash just...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:14 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 28, 2008
Category: Wonder Cabinets
These charming photos by bre pettis capture a lovely, detailed diorama at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. I'm not sure how old it is, but it's very cool....
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Category: Science in Culture & Policy
The Guardian calls out celebrities who made scientifically illiterate statements in 2008: Kate Moss, Oprah Winfrey and Demi Moore all espoused the idea that you can detoxify your body with either diet (scientifically unsupportable) or, in the case of Moore,...
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December 27, 2008
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
Dan Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, said calling Obama a geek is unfair both to the president-elect and geeks. ''He's too cool to be a geek; he's a decent basketball player; he knows how...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogosphere
Assuming you have some downtime to digest, vegetate, and recover from the holidays, here's a cookie plate of links. Enjoy! Boing Boing Gadgets presents "How it works. . . The Computer." Hilarious. Via Morbid Anatomy, I found Monster Brains' repository...
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December 26, 2008
Category: Frivolity
"it's definitely illegal in California to use human medical waste to power vehicles." see full story here....
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