Archive for the ‘Ephemera’ Category
Friday, May 29th, 2009
This IM started off with "B" (the name has been changed to protect our stupidity) asking me to do something. Being compliant, I replied:
Me: will do Lash La Rue
Me: (real dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lash_LaRue)
B: dont even want to know why you know who that is
Me: a line in pulp fiction: harvey keitel's ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Here are three things I'm currently looking forward to checking out in more depth; that is, spend some more time on:
David Lynch Foundation Television -- The psychologically macabre director has launched a video intensive site promoting his love of transcendental meditation. Good Magazine blurb here.
Stereofame -- Chance to win prizes ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
No clue where the above image was procured or if it's a joke, but the blog Breach, Bang, Clear explains the toilet undies:
This space diaper is designed to use powerful suction to gather up all the nastiness created when nature calls. Sensors strategically placed around your ass and crotch let ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Funny stuff. The Asian characters below are what I get when I try dragging links from Firefox into Open Office (where they look normal) then into Word Press. And I even tried saving as a Word document then using the "Paste from Word" button in Word Press.
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Update: The Asian characters ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Friend Tim Showers did a blog post not too long ago called "Visualization Strategies: Text & Documents" where he introduced me to a Wordle. A Wordle is also embedded above from the NY Times Visualization Lab. I haven't explored the Times site extensively, but it looks like there are some ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I found this on reddit. The file name of the animated gif is 1spiraltorusknot.gif. I'm assuming it is some form of Torus knot.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Kind of old, but still cool. From the Wikipedia description:
Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a simple rotation about a plane which bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.
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