“An argument is good; a fight is not. Whereas the goal of a fight is to dominate your opponent, in an argument you succeed when you bring your audience over to your side.”
Argument by logos, ethos, and pathos for children.
A 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million dice rolls a day.
Honey Bees keep time using molecular clocks, “a series of feedback loops in which the proteins produced by several genes feedback to repress their own production. […] The end result is a near-24-hour cycling in the levels of various proteins that in turn result in the cycling of the secretion of hormones and other substances.”
See: The Setup or The New Best Friends
Ted Baryluk’s Grocery - John Paskievich, Michael Mirus, 1982, 10min 19s
Ukrainian-Canadian Ted Baryluk’s grocery store was a fixture in Winnipeg’s North End (Point Douglas) for over 20 years.
Danger Mouse to release blank CD
The music cannot be released (legal dispute with EMI) so fans can download the music P2P and burn it to the CD-R.
The album can also be streamed in full from NPR.
LampHead - experiments in surrealistic shading
AskMefi: "You must ____ in ____!"
Quintessential Cliché Experiences Around the World
Download the entire album
Manitoba Bans the Bottle - March 13, 1916
Prohibition in Manitoba. (Via: The Winnipeg Time Machine)
Roomba Chaos - [via]
Beautiful music by Miaow found on a jPlayer demo page. :)
Saving Journalism, Hackers wanted
The Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University is offering full scholarships to software developers.
“The peculiar, profound, and still mysterious way by which complex structures appear in the universe.”
This video was filmed in one take, with audio being recorded simultaneously with the film. The video features Nyle and is produced by Last Pictures and 194 Recordings.
“The goal: Make a night-time cityscape using nothing but procedurally generated content.”
If you are standing on the Moon, and holding a rock, and you let it go, it will:
