Ha! “Psychosomatic” was coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. That seems…apropos.
(Found out in The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes)
“Lego likenesses of the Roman god Jupiter, his sister Juno and the Italian astronomer Galileo will accompany the Juno space probe. Photo courtesy The Lego Group.”
Question: how many requests will The Lego Group have to receive before they make them available for retail?
Do. want.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Otomata is my new favorite Internet thing. There are other flash-based sequencers, but this is my favorite one, so far. Its killer feature is the way cells will turn clockwise when they run into an obstacle. That changes the whole dynamic and while I haven’t figured out how to recreate one I’ve made, it’s a damn lot of fun. (:
Love it. When it comes to chains, local or otherwise, there’s always one that gets it right (read: the way you like) every time. I tend to order a single thing at different locations to get a baseline, then do the gastronomic calculus from there to get what I’m after.
How Hangovers Work
I’ve been on a Stuff You Should Know podcast kick the last few weeks and had time to kill tonight while the Giants stunk it up the first quarter (Eli’s my QB and Bradshaw’s one of my RBs!), so I found myself back at How Stuff Works.
What did we learn today? We learned glutamine rebound is to blame for waking me up at 2am if I have more than 2 drinks. Now I know! It’s still annoying, but at least it’s got a fun name.
Azureus Rising - Proof of Concept (via Bixby)
(720p, full screen, headphones)
Can that please be a movie? I would totally watch that movie. Okay, the hair is a little distracting (hee, when did Sonic get so tall?) but overall? That is sweet!
(The poorly kerned “UR” in the title made me twitch a little.)
You Bar
Custom protein bars, shakes, cereals, and cookies?! What? Um, that’s awesome.
Also awesome is the pinned-in-the-corner Nutrtional Facts panel as you build said bar, shake, cereal, or cookie. Throw in another gold star for the “First time building a bar?” primer and recommendations.
(And trail mix!)
More or less a direct line? (:
Record grooves under an electron microscope (via Coudal)
Those grooves look like dunes! That is so cool.
![“A conversation I have every month or so” reminded me to tell you about my most favorite local site: Lost in Seattle.
Hours and contact information for restaurants, bars, businesses…but the best part is the translation of hours relative to the moment you’re looking for it. Sure you can do the math in your head, but that at-a-glance “to go” information is quite nice to have.
When I’m looking for a place, it goes something like this:[Browser] > Google search box > “lost in seattle [destination] [neighborhood if known]”
9 times out of 10 that gets me exactly what I’m looking for and away I go.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxyl8u830w1qz6thlo1_500.jpg)
“A conversation I have every month or so” reminded me to tell you about my most favorite local site: Lost in Seattle.
Hours and contact information for restaurants, bars, businesses…but the best part is the translation of hours relative to the moment you’re looking for it. Sure you can do the math in your head, but that at-a-glance “to go” information is quite nice to have.
When I’m looking for a place, it goes something like this:
[Browser] > Google search box > “lost in seattle [destination] [neighborhood if known]”
9 times out of 10 that gets me exactly what I’m looking for and away I go.
Quatchi and Miga snowboard!
I’m quite taken with the 2010 winter games’ design: the mascots, the logo, and especially that typeface.
One habit leftover from college is taking notes while I read; I can’t help it (although I don’t write in my books, anymore). The habit I’ve lost entirely is listening fast enough to distill a lecture into sensical notes.
A little more halfway through Introduction to Ancient Greek History (via iTunes U), I finally made time to get down notes I’ve been writing in my head as I listen. Just during the 30-minute introduction (!) I had to pause quite often to catch up or replay a few lines.
Also: holy hand cramp, Batman!
