Bookmarks
Thu, 28 Nov 2013
- Delusional Doppelgängers: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti State Hospital
- I’m Sick Of Pretending: I Don’t “Get” Art
- NASA outlines ingenious plan to resurrect the Kepler planet hunter
- A spurned techie’s revenge: Locking down his ex’s digital life
- Physics explains why tapping the top of a beer bottle produces a geyser of foam
- TV Is Dying, And Here Are The Stats From The US That Prove It
- The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
- The quest for Shadow of the Colossus’ last big secret
- Pop music is louder, less acoustic and more energetic than in the 1950s
- What the … Why everyone and your mother started using ellipses … everywhere
- A simple explanation of how money moves around the banking system
- U.S. family that tried living without anything ‘Made in China’
- Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network
- Population 1: the town that’s been reclaimed by the prairie
- Confessions of a porn site boss: Part 1 & Part 2
- The War on the War on Death Begins
- Never let the facts get in the way of a good story eh?
Bookmarks
Thu, 21 Nov 2013
- Trending: The ethics of live-tweeting a break-up
- English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet
- Jack Vale’s social media experiment on people’s ‘privacy’
- Why Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold
- Genetic Russian Roulette or how to second-guess having children
- The Pentagon’s 6’2″, 330-pound humanitarian robot
- How Facebook uses your profile for advertising
- Businessweek looks at what’s in store for 2014
- Polling academics: 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel
- Tinder Dates, Drake Retweets, and Sex Offenses: Seven Streakers Share Their Stories
- The Inokashira Park dismemberment incident where some poor sod was cut into 1cm slices
- Gallery: Cats wearing thights
Plus, these freakin’ kids cover Tool’s 46 and 2 and kick some serious arse with it yo.
Wed, 20 Nov 2013
For the first time in… I’m gonna say months, I slept for about 10 hours last night.
Fuck yeah.
Bookmarks
Tue, 19 Nov 2013
Cape Times Selfies ad campaign
- Music skills evolved at least 30 million years ago in the common humans-monkeys ancestor
- Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia
- 21st century heists: Five more men charged in global bank heist that netted $45 million in hours
- The Pink Panther gang: The astonishing story behind the world’s most feared robbers.
- Havana Marking meets and interviews members of the Pink Panter
- Sigh… The death throes of the keyboard cellphone
- Mike Tyson writes My Life As a Young Thug
- Goodness Gone Viral: Paying it Forward lives on in drive-thrus
- DIY your smartphone into a digital microscope for $10
- Witzelsucht: the neurological affliction that causes a person to make constant puns, jokes and sexual comments in an inappropriate and random setting
Bookmarks
- Developed: the good for 1000 years, 5-dimensional memory crystal
- Forget LED bulbs—the future of interior lighting is lasers
- After 50,000 generations, bacteria continue evolving greater fitness
- Fourier Transform: The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face
- Recent surface warming has probably been underestimated
- What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?
- How a hatred of bureaucrats and a wall saved a Japanese nuclear plant from meltdown after tsunami
- China will look to Thorium Salt reactors for energy starting in 2040
- China unveils boldest reforms in decades
- Why Scandinavian women make the rest of the world jealous
- Pope’s unprecedented survey signals far-reaching reform
- Abandoned Walmart is now America’s largest one-floor Library
- How One Man Earned 4 Million Airline Miles by Buying Dollar Coins
- Alison Bechdel on the Bechdel Test
- Fuck yeah! AMC Ordering ‘Preacher’ Pilot
- Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
- Some of history’s weirdest and fiercest combat helmets
- White Teen In Blackface Responds To Black Critics: ‘Worry About Finding Your Dad’
- Brazil referee decapitated after stabbing player
Plus, Howard, the world’s first Kim Jong-un Impersonator. I want one for my birthday party.
The Infinite Bookmarks Page
Wed, 13 Nov 2013
…or catching up on about three months of internet.
Science
- Charles Darwin’s ecological experiment on Ascension Isle
- Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island
- Dinosaur Feathers Discovered in Canadian Amber
- 419-million-year-old armoured fish fossil resolves ‘missing link’ in evolution, scientists say
- Scientists link genes to why wounds heal quicker for young people
- DNA Double Take – having multiple sets of DNA is pretty common
- Scientist discovers DNA ‘biological clock’
- Gamers solve decade old HIV puzzle in ten days
- New drug mimics the beneficial effects of exercise
- Getting drunk without the hangover or health risks – scientist seeks investment for ‘alcohol substitute’ drug
- The Rat Pack study – Drug addiction: The complex truth
- Tastes Like Chicken: How one company created a plausible substitute for meat that has the texture of real flesh.
- How the shape of chocolate can change its taste
- How much can an extra hour’s sleep change you?
- Sleep – Now By Prescription
- Sleep debt and recovering from it
- The Curious Case of Polywater: In the 1960s, scientists ‘discovered’ a new form of water. How did they get it so wrong?
- Global warming: What the leading scientists say
- First sign that humanity is slowing its carbon surge
- Looking to disprove climate change, Nebraska fails in finding scientists to participate
- Breaking Deep-Sea Waves, as High as a Skyscraper, Reveal Mechanism for Global Ocean Mixing
- What would it be like if another planet just barely missed colliding with the Earth?
- Celebrating the Nobel win for it’s discovery, NYTimes made this great explanation as to what the Higgs is
- The Apmlituhedron: A Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics
- Quantum Experiment Shows How Time ‘Emerges’ from Entanglement
- The Crew That Never Came Home: The Misfortunes of Soyuz 11
Technology
- The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours.
- Transfer a secret audio message by poking someone with your finger
- Hyperloop—a theoretical 760 mph transit system made of sun, air, and magnets
- Police firing GPS tracking ‘bullets’ at cars during chases
- Engineers use sound waves to detect bombs remotely
- The Status of Moore’s Law: It’s Complicated
- Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
- You Might Have an Invisible Facebook Account Even if You Never Signed Up
- Hackers Courted by Government for Cyber Security Jobs: The Geeks on the Front Lines
- I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling
- Debugging a live Saturn V rocket
Sociology (and stuff)
The 1939 New York World’s Fair
- Is Google Wrecking Our Memory? Nope. It’s (transactive memory) much, much weirder than that.
- Why even the worst bloggers are making us smarter
- Online comment systems reveal multiple layers of social bias
- The datamune difference between funny and LOL
- The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm
- Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You
- A vast cloud of blah: Charlie Brooker on taking a break from columns
- A Slate backpack investigation: When Did Two-Strapping Get Cooler Than One-Strapping?
- Even babies discriminate until taught not to
- Man… The ocean is broken
- The debate over: Is population growth out of control?
- Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
- Urban Design: The secrets of the world’s happiest cities
- Golden Gate Bridge: Triumph, Tragedy : Suicide Rate Shadows the Span’s 50th-Anniversary Celebration
- PBS commentator Mark Shields says more killed by guns since ’68 than in all U.S. wars
- Amazon and the “profitless business model” fallacy
- Stoya on ethics, porn and worker’s rights
- 16 People On Things They Couldn’t Believe About America Until They Moved Here
- How to be miserable in ten easy steps
- Ten Surprising Facts About Rejection
- Comfort In, Dump Out: the Kvetching Order of handling traumatic (or any other kind of) crisis
- Perceiving Time: Why Waiting Is Torture
- Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
Media
Supercut: 50 “four in the morning”s – Museum of Four in the Morning
- Warren Ellis on Breaking Bad and the Horrible Glory of Heisenberg
- Korra’s a Girl? TV producers think boys won’t watch girl heroines. Turns out that’s not true.
- Netflix studies piracy sites to decide what to buy
- Study accuses media companies of cooking the books on piracy losses
- David Byrne: ‘The internet will suck all creative content out of the world’
- How Marvel Unified Its Movie Universe (And Why That Won’t Be Easy for DC)
- Lucasfilm will combine video games and movies to axe post-production process
- Why Stephen King Spends ‘Months and Even Years’ Writing Opening Sentences
- Why Everyone Gets Robocop But Nobody Gets Starship Troopers
- Todd Alcott: Some thoughts on the state of screenwriting in 2013
- ‘Canned laughter’ doesn’t exist, so why complain about it?
- Soundworks: The Sound of Gravity
Randomness
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- Animals would stop the zombie apocalypse before it started
- “Christ, what an asshole” works for everything
- 35 years after the clock tower shooting, Whitman belatedly claims his 15th victim
- A Marine recounts his one afternoon with a notorious serial killer
- Get ordained for free as a Dudeist minister
- Mexico’s Tales of Bus Passengers Forced to Fight to the Death
- Colombian women get their road fixed by refusing to have sex
- Civ II’s “Eternal War” continues on reddit more than a year later
- Carpet designer threatens cosplayers with legal action
- This Guy’s Eaten Nothing but Raw Meat for Five Years
- A map of Pangea with modern political borders
- What happens when you replace guns with thumbs up?
- Images of Vietnam Zippo engravings (yes, gratifying rewards too as a Preacher fan)
- The wonderfully wierd emoticon art of Ryder Ripps
- Questlove’s Celebrity Stories
- Back to toilet reading basics with new technology: backlabel
- Webgame: Z-Type
Christ…
Bookmarks
Tue, 6 Aug 2013
- “They make cars; I run a kitchen”: How Toyota donated efficiency to New York charity
- Your app makes me fat and the correlation of willpower and cognitive processing
- The genetic mutation that allowed ancient Europeans to drink milk
- The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
- Ever looked at a clock and the second hand seemed frozen for more than a second? Chronostasis.
- What does it mean for light to be stopped or stored?
- A professor spoofed (falsified data) a $80M superyacht’s GPS on the high sea
- An ‘offline’ radio exchange with two women-hating trolls
- Edgar Wright’s polite exchange with the British censors over the usage of ‘cunt’ (and their refreshingly transparent reply unlike the MPAA)
- Man tries to smuggle turtle onto plane by hiding it in a hamburger
- George Clooney spent his Nespresso paycheck on a spy satellite to keep tabs on Omar Al-Bashir
- A message from firefighters: try not to get your penis stuck in a toaster
- Electric company sends threatening letter to a lamp post
- Great writing advice from Chuck Palahniuk
Today’s Craziest Seen Thing: Changing Tires on the Road
Thu, 1 Aug 2013
So I’ve seen pictures of Saudis standing atop of cars in-motion, driving on two wheels, but I never could convince my brain to accept them as being real photos. Now I can (to a degree), with this video of a bunch of guys not just hanging out on top of a car going at full speed on two wheels, but they also decide to take off, not just one, but two of the damn things tires while they’re at it.
Mental.