Disney Does Devo
This is just wrong on so many levels.
Wes Phillips
The Shipbreakers
Published in The Atlantic in 2000. What a great piece of writing. Long, but I'd have hung in even longer for anything this masterful.
Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculpture
Science meets art and I'm transfixed. These are gorgeous photos.
Why I Love the Web, #4327
Because you get websites like Paul's Boutique Samples and References List, which, of course, attempts to codify every sample, quote, and homage from the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique. Probably more than you ever wanted to know, but (IMO) that's what makes it so cool: It was done out of love, pure and simple.
Is Money A Virus?
No, but it behaves like one, according to researchers who used an internet game called www.wheresgeorge.com to predict the geographical spread of epidemics. How's that work? Money, like viruses, is spread by people and, since people travel great distances these days, coming up with a way to chart how far and fast an epidemic can travel has been nigh on to impossible.
Geek Heaven!
Huge database of animated .GIFs that demonstrate mathematic concepts. Need to explain the Conchoid of Nicomedes? Poincaré Hyperbolic Disks? Semicubical Parabola Involutes? Sweat no more—just point and click.
Are Cats Changing the Behavior of Millions?
Not the usual "ain't they cute?" discussion, but a look into Toxoplasma, a parasite that has a strange behavioral action on rats—and perhaps on men and women as well.
Chicken CacciaTora Tora Tora
Or should it be Coq au Blam? Some recipes make life a lot more interesting than others.
Lending a Helping Huck
Huckleberry personally inspects every box before it leaves mi casa.
Bagheera Works It
She totally pwns the Cat-Dancer.