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February 27, 2009
Category: Museum Lust
Yup, that's a flying bat gripping a lamp in its mouth, with his buddy, a coiled snake, crawling along above him. And it's not a faux-Victorian, nouveau-Goth creation - it's a replica of an actual late 1800s fixture, by...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:24 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopodmania
It wasn't that long ago that Otto the octopus was bent on destroying the electrical system in his German aquarium. Now a cephalopod at the Santa Monica aquarium is following in his footsteps, flooding the building overnight with a few...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2009
Category: Books
If you poke around the Children's Digital Library, you'll find a surprising number of beautiful illustrated vintage children's books from the turn of the century - like L. Frank Baum's Oz series!
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2009
Category: Science in Culture & Policy
As a native of Washington State, where we could literally scoop white ash off the ground in handfuls after Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980, I have one thing to say about Bobby Jindal's totally disingenuous dig at "volcano monitoring":...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 24, 2009
Category: Books
Update on the burgeoning Jane Austen massacre genre: you knew Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was coming out and generating unforeseen (at least by its publisher) interweb buzz. Subsequently we learned the book is to be followed by a movie...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:51 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
What's a work of art worth when its lifespan is less than yours - or your car's?
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:30 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 23, 2009
Category: Frivolity
The Shakespeare Insult meme takes a portable turn with the Shakespeare Insulter for iPhone. This app is supposedly "official" (who says?) but strangely, it features an American voice, which issues from the nutcracker-jawed head of the Bard like that...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 9:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
a wonderful poem by Kimberly Johnson
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 22, 2009
Category: Blogosphere
Essays are like cupcakes: they're tasty, abundant, idiosyncratic, and small enough to finish without feeling you've overindulged - which leaves you vulnerable to the self-deception that just one more is a good idea. So here are some weekend reading suggestions...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:40 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 21, 2009
Category: Frivolity
Smartcars are cute. But when you add a turning windup key, they're so cute it's almost wrong. I saw this specimen in a flotilla of Smartcars in Alexandria president's day parade last week - the custom license plate says "wnd...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:36 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
