September 2009
28 posts
AudioLemon: Siftable Music Sequencer →
AudioLemon: Siftable Music Sequencer
Source: audiolemon.blogspot.com
A music sequencer that uses Siftables as the interface. There are three “voices” - lead, bass and drums. Each…
The Ruins of Chernobyl, Over 20 Years Later →
The Ruins of Chernobyl, Over 20 Years Later
Source: io9.com
In 1986, the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant forced the residents of the town of Prypiat to…
David Byrne on Changing Road Behavior: "There's No... →
David Byrne on Changing Road Behavior: “There’s No Poop On the Streets” : TreeHugger
Source: www.treehugger.com
In a city and country where the rise in cycling has come…
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. →
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
Source: www.youtube.com
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
I spent the afternoon with dozens of naked hippies on bikes, a…
Producer Butch Vig to record band with winning bid... →
Producer Butch Vig to record band with winning bid in charity auction
Source: www.examiner.com
Butch Vig will record your band’s next album if you place the winning bid in the Pablove…
UPDATE:FDA Warns On Circumventing... →
UPDATE:FDA Warns On Circumventing Flavored-Cigarette Ban - WSJ.com
Source: online.wsj.com
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order…
Neuroscience:Torture Doesn't Work and Here's Why |... →
Neuroscience:Torture Doesn’t Work and Here’s Why | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley
Source: www.newsweek.com
Extreme pain and stress can actually impair a person’s ability…
New Heights Integrative Therapy →
New Heights Integrative Therapy
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I graduated from physical therapy today! Despite the New-Agey name, they were very straightforward and…
Putting faith in its place →
Putting faith in its place
Source: www.youtube.com
Faith has no place demanding agreement or punishing disagreement.
I am sorely disappointed to hear that…
GAYDAR: Your Facebook Friends Can Reveal Your... →
GAYDAR: Your Facebook Friends Can Reveal Your Sexual Orientation
Source: mashable.com
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their friends. This is especially…
Nigerian officials: "District 9" not welcome here... →
Nigerian officials: “District 9” not welcome here - Yahoo! News
Source: news.yahoo.com
One of the summer’s biggest blockbusters a sci-fi morality tale about aliens and…
BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Naked bikers... →
BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Naked bikers needed for Flaming Lips music video to be shot in Por
Source: bikeportland.org
The World Naked Bike Ride doesn’t roll…
Myna: Garage Band in Your Web Browser →
Myna: Garage Band in Your Web Browser
Source: mashable.com
AviaryAviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding…
BUSTED: Burglar Arrested After Checking Facebook... →
BUSTED: Burglar Arrested After Checking Facebook During Robbery
Source: mashable.com
So apparently it actually works both ways: careless FacebookFacebook use can both get…
Why Does Music Make Us Feel?: Scientific American →
Why Does Music Make Us Feel?: Scientific American
Source: www.scientificameric…
A new study demonstrates the power of music to alter our emotional perceptions of other…
Book Review - 'Inside of a Dog - What Dogs See,... →
Book Review - ‘Inside of a Dog - What Dogs See, Smell, and Know,’ by Alexandra Horowitz - Review - N
Source: www.nytimes.com
A cognitive scientist leads a tour of the…
Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? - TIME →
Do You Have the Right to Flip Off a Cop? - TIME
Source: www.time.com
“The law is clear that people have the constitutional right to use profanity, especially when it…
What’s for Lunch? Enter the Bento Box, a Touch of... →
What’s for Lunch? Enter the Bento Box, a Touch of Japan - NYTimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
They might seem like kids’ stuff, but a sense of fun and built-in portion…
this is not a photo made from two different ones,... →
this is not a photo made from two different ones, … - opentravel - Meme
Source: meme.yahoo.com
This pic gives me chills.
Romance for Engineers →
Romance for Engineers
Source: doctorlizardo.blogspot.com
“Darling,” he murmured tenderly, “your hands are half-scale. Furthermore, your …
What If She Were Always in the Mood? | Psychology... →
What If She Were Always in the Mood? | Psychology Today
Source: www.psychologytoday.com
[…] dopamine was behind the phenomenon of mate fatigue. As a rat copulates…
Woman doesn't know about light refraction →
Woman doesn’t know about light refraction
Source: www.youtube.com
She goes on thinking some weird chemicals are in water, ground and air that makes her sprinklers cause…
Rumors of Facebook Virus Lure Users to Scareware →
Rumors of Facebook Virus Lure Users to Scareware
Source: www.readwriteweb.com
According to John Leyden’s recent Register article, fake software is being peddled to users…
SignFail →
SignFail
Source: failblog.org
fail owned pwned pictures - Sign Fail, prohibit, signs, translation
Linguists beware!
Music to Monkeys' Ears? Try Metallica or the... →
Music to Monkeys’ Ears? Try Metallica or the Metro: Scientific American Blog
Source: www.scientificameric…
Music is known to induce terror and tears, as well as inspire…
Science Fiction Observer: First "Laptop"... →
Science Fiction Observer: First “Laptop” Discovered in Flash Gordon Comics
Source: sciencefictionobserv…
Probably the earliest depiction of a communication device…
Portland Unveils Downtown Cycle Track →
Portland Unveils Downtown Cycle Track
Source: www.vimeo.com
Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. Use…
if you haven't read about the story of Alan... →
if you haven’t read about the story of Alan Turing, father of computing and persecuted gay man, you
Source: friendfeed.com
if you haven’t read about the story of Alan Turing, father…
August 2009
24 posts
Lisa Brandt Heckman's best name anagram is... →
Lisa Brandt Heckman’s best name anagram is MAN-LIKE, DRAB SNATCH
Source: deanjackson.dj
Oh yes! Lisa Brandt Heckman’s best name anagram is MAN-LIKE, DRAB SNATCH . But…
Language Log » How science reporting works →
Language Log » How science reporting works
Source: languagelog.ldc.upen…
Unfortunately, scientists are often more complicit in the exaggerations and misrepresentations…
Overcoming Masturbation →
Overcoming Masturbation
Source: www.lightplanet.com
Masturbation is a quickly-forming habit that can adversely affect both men and women of all ages. Despite what some might tell you,…
Lost Sounds Of The Past Brought To Life →
Lost Sounds Of The Past Brought To Life
Source: feeds.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Aug. 28, 2009) Salpinx, barbiton, aulos, syrinx. Never heard them? Never heard of…
Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons →
Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons
Source: www.break.com
Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he…
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Deciphering... →
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Deciphering ‘Chinglish’: Your pictures
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Authorities in Shanghai want to correct badly phrased English on signs in public…
Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren't... →
Women Are Sort Of More Tentative Than Men, Aren’t They?
Source: www.sciencedaily.com
Palomares found no gender difference in tentativeness when he asked his subjects to write e-mails…
Let Me Explain! | Emails From Crazy People →
Let Me Explain! | Emails From Crazy People
Source: emailsfromcrazypeopl…
lmao, this gotta be the best ever posted in here xDHilarious!!! I feel sorry for this guy tho,…
Male or Female? Gender tests are not always easy -... →
Male or Female? Gender tests are not always easy - Yahoo! News
Source: news.yahoo.com
South African runner Caster Semenya has been ordered to undergo a gender…
Search Magazine — Holy Grammar, Inc. →
Search Magazine — Holy Grammar, Inc.
Source: www.searchmagazine.org
Linguists often rely on missionaries and translations of the Bible into obscure languages to fund…
Abandoned Subway Stations Around The World (Photo... →
Abandoned Subway Stations Around The World (Photo Gallery) » INFRASTRUCTURIST
Source: www.infrastructurist…
A few weeks ago, we looked at some of America’s great train…
Court says Nazi slogan is legal in English →
Court says Nazi slogan is legal in English
Source: news.yahoo.com
Nazis slogans banned in Germany may be legal if they are translated from German into English, one of the country’s…
Is The Bike City An Alternate Universe, Or A... →
Is The Bike City An Alternate Universe, Or A Glimpse Of Your Urban Future?
Source: io9.com
Amsterdam is the future - if you think that cities devoted to bicycle…
SpellingFail →
SpellingFail
Source: failblog.org
fail owned pwned pictures - Spelling Fail, spelling, language, writing, windows, truck, car
Like the fist of an angry god | Bad Astronomy |... →
Like the fist of an angry god | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
Source: blogs.discovermagazi…
Astronomy | Deep in the outer realms of our solar system, well over a…
Google Voice Blog: Google Voice invites for... →
Google Voice Blog: Google Voice invites for military service members
Source: googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com
It is hard enough to keep in touch with family and friends, but imagine being…
Make your own fake Kenyan birth certificate! -... →
Make your own fake Kenyan birth certificate! - Democratic Underground
Source: www.democraticunderg…
Make your own fake Kenyan birth certificate!
It’s about…
Ray Bradbury's 89th birthday party in Glendale,... →
Ray Bradbury’s 89th birthday party in Glendale, CA, Aug 22 - Boing Boing
Source: feeds.boingboing.net
Keith sez, “Ray Bradbury will celebrate his 89th birthday in…
Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi - Columns... →
Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi - Columns - civilrights - Youth - [Royals] God And Abstinen
Source: www.jacksonfreepress.com
At the Mississippi Department of Human Services’…
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin... →
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
Source: vimeo.com
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic…
Everything sounds like coldplay now →
Everything sounds like coldplay now
Source: www.youtube.com
Everything sounds like coldplay now
AP IMPACT: $2.5B Spent, No Alternative Med Cures -... →
AP IMPACT: $2.5B Spent, No Alternative Med Cures - ABC News
Source: abcnews.go.com
AP IMPACT: $2.5B Spent, No Alternative Med Cures