November 2009
Shove that in your skein and knit it →
I am a yarn and sock dork. I know that I’m not alone, and so I know that there will be at least a few of you who understand the wonder and the glory of what I am about to show you. These socks…
Sees. Wants. Gets. →
A pattern he is likely to repeat. (like me at the pie table.) hope everyone had a relaxing weekend with those you love~ xo,Anna
'Geek Love' author fights off purse... →
Author Katherine Dunn spent more than 10 years training with thefighters of Knott Street Boxing Club in Northeast Portland’s MattDishman Community Center. But Dunn, best known for her novel “Geek Love
And Now, At Long Last, The Turkeys Get Revenge... →
What better way to conclude Turkey Day 2009 than with a forty-year-old fake trailer about a killer 300-foot turkey, shot by a bunch of Caltech astronomers in the style of fifties monster…
The myth of the starship →
(NB: As starships do not in fact exist, no starships were harmed in the production of this essay. Also, this is just words. If they upset you, go lie down in a dark room for half an hour then…
Roomba saves child from deadly Viper, challenges... →
We’ve always known that the Roomba was something of a bad-ass — iRobot, after all, has quite a reputation within the defense industry — so we weren’t surprised when one of the…
Hark, a Vagrant: hipsters two →
Ariana Osborne » Can we build if it never burned... →
I didn’t set out to write a POD manifesto, honest. And I still haven’t, but I know I’m only a technicality away from a neatly bulleted list of demands. I think this spew of infodump following …
A status update from 1940 →
Brynn and I went poking around Alemeda this weekend and stumbled into Pauline’s Antiques, the kind of place where you can find thick-walled whiskey glasses that were once sipped from by people…
This Cruel Farce Has To Stop! →
Written by James Randi Monday, 23 November 2009 20:42
Update!
For those who may need further evidence for my contention, the proof can be found at http://tinyurl.com/ye9d9lp —…
Man says through aide leaving coma like rebirth -... →
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Sharing for Lucas. Includes more details about the typing technique, which is highly suspect. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication
With a caretaker holding…
A status update from 1940 →
Brynn and I went poking around Alemeda this weekend and stumbled into Pauline’s Antiques, the kind of place where you can find thick-walled whiskey glasses that were once sipped from by people…
Add Visualizations to Your Google Maps With... →
Using standard markers gets pretty quickly crowded if you have many points. And it’s not always the best way to describe data. Cartographer is a new library that helps you add better content to…
Observatory: By Happy Accident, Chemists Produce a... →
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Chemists at Oregon State, no less.
Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.
Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning →
Fair warning: These jokes are total groaners. Like science-based vaudeville. Frankly, that’s what makes them so awesome. I’ve only had this video since Saturday, and my husband is already…
Rihanna Shows off her Laser Shoulder Pads at the... →
What goes with an outfit made out of white leather straps? Laser shooting shoulder pads, of course!
If you missed Rihanna’s performance of “Wait Your Turn” at the 2009 AMA’s you can see…
Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning →
Fair warning: These jokes are total groaners. Like science-based vaudeville. Frankly, that’s what makes them so awesome. I’ve only had this video since Saturday, and my husband is already…
New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post... →
SAN FRANCISCO—I love it, said Sheena Wulf, a Novellist fromKansas City, MO. If I’m ever sitting in a coffee shop and my sense of alienation and utter detachment from contemporary life provides me…
OurPDX shared links for November 23rd: The WMTM... →
Here, a round-up of the posts generated thus far from the firestorm that was the We Make the Media conference on Saturday.
First, The Preview
3 Questions with We Make The Media’s…
Who Knew I Was Not the Father? →
DNA testing has led more men to discover that their children are not biologically theirs. Families are upended, and so is the law.
I've finallly worked out what I was trying to... →
Strange Horizons Fiction: A Brief Investigation of... →
Hark, a Vagrant: hipsters one →
Stabbing People with Stuff You Can Get Through... →
“Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items,” from the American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology.
Abstract….
andyserling (Andy Serling):#aqueduct I do think... →
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Even the spambots love Calagator!
#aqueduct I do think Calagator is very dangerous at a decent price in the 5th. Dry track on the dropdown and a subpar field.
BBC News - 'Fat for cosmetics' murder... →
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Urban legends are not a how-to guide.
Police in Peru arrest members of a gang accused of killing dozens of people to sell their fat for use in cosmetics.
Transgender Day of Remembrance « International Gay... →
November 20th, 2009 marks the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. On this day we remember those who have been killed by hatred and prejudice against transgender people and raise public…
Dialysis Unit Closing Hits Illegal Immigrants Hard →
When Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta closed its dialysis unit, many illegal immigrants had to scramble to find treatment.
Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can... →
Chipmaker Intel is throwing a ton of cash into developing brain implants to help people send text messages with their minds. They are also predicting these implants will be the main way you turn…
NaNo Tip No. 20: Don’t Wait for the Muse to Strike... →
It’s day twenty and I’ve seen some talk on NaNoNoWriMo blogs of muses showing up or, more often, not. I’m sure for some of you muses are a very useful metaphor for your creative process. However,…
The Disintermediation Era →
It must suck to be the middle-man today. Everywhere they turn, it’s bad news. Democratization this. Circumventing that. There was a point not that long ago that the middle-man provided great…
#568; In which Susie does not learn →
Shareable: Galileo’s Dream: A Q&A with Kim... →
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of America’s most important science fiction authors—and an underappreciated utopian visionary. He grew up in Southern California ‘s Orange County (a Republican…
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Bread Shoes by R&E... →
Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread.
Called Bread Shoes (of course), the products come in a variety of designs and dough…
Biotech Company Sued for Accidentally Growing... →
A company called Stryker Biotech was in court last week defending a bone-growth product it sold for years, despite reports that it would “drift” in the body, causing bones to grow in random…
Gekiga JAWS (Herald Comic, 1975) PART ONE →
To Be Concluded!
Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help -... →
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Interesting publishing experiment. It’ll be useful to see how this works out.
Here’s the pitch: it’s a short story collection, and like my last two collections, it’s a book of…
The Stuff of Life, on the Streets, for Free →
Four heaters serving up boiling water to the traders around Kabul’s Pul-e Khishti Mosque, with a box of tea-pots, fresh tea leaves, and a container for tea dregs. It sits as a stark…
Zero-Tolerance Policies →
Recent stories have documented the ridiculous effects of zero-tolerance weapons policies in a Delaware school district: a first-grader expelled for taking a camping utensil to school, a…
Eavesdropping on the moon, circa 1969 →
In July, 1969, a ham radio operator named Larry Baysinger, from Louisville, KY, used a 20-year old radio from an army tank and a homemade folded dipole antenna array to listen…
Make it measurable: set clear goals & success... →
Over the past few weeks I’ve been wrapping up and kicking off a bunch of projects. It is during both of these phases that I am reminded how incredibly valuable it is for me, as a UX practitioner, to…
Wearables →
NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning →
I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of fiction. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to…
NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning →
I honor any project to write something — especially to write a long piece of fiction. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do but, like most people, I have always been too scared to…
Style Dispatch 005 – Halloween Edition →
As mentioned a while back, I decided to finally dress as Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell for Halloween. Last year I boycotted the holiday altogether so it was definitely time…
Dressing for Gentlemen →
London of To-day, 1890:
WNYC - Radiolab » Quantum Cello →
Zoe Keating is the cellist from our live show, War of the Worlds. She used to play with the band Rasputina and now solos and records music for films, such as horror flick, “The Devil’s Chair”…
unpacking words, slowly . october 15 . cafe mama →
And then she laughs, and says she knows how to truly tell who is a writer and who is not. “Do you feel bad about not writing? Then you’re a writer!” Her head is thrown back, and we are all laughing,…
Movie Narrative Charts →
