DSD

Found this gem in Bal­akov’s lego Star Wars flickr set:

There’s some more good stuff up there — for instance the Prints pho­to­set, which con­tains this iconic image:

Wow. Just wow. See if you can guess what’s wrong with this recent post at Pho­to­shop Dis­as­ters…

What could be better?

Some­one pointed out an amus­ing Google maps anom­aly to me today involv­ing two places near and dear to my heart. Here’s the result of a search for “chi­nese restau­rant st. john’s road cam­bridge:”

Trin­ity Street Chi­nese Restau­rant‎ in Cam­bridge, MA?

This may be very con­fus­ing for those who live near Har­vard square — the restau­rant doesn’t exist. But note the phone num­ber… +44 1223 358281. That’s a UK coun­try code. Turns out Google maps is con­fus­ing the St. John’s St., Cam­bridge above with this St. John’s St., Cambridge:

St. John’s Street, Cam­bridge UK

Where there is in fact a chi­nese restau­rant.

This is totally bril­liant. My favorite thing ever today. Science!

(via Boing­Bo­ing)

Stole the title from my favorite arti­cle series on Seri­ous Eats. The evi­dence is quite strong this time.

I almost can’t believe this actu­ally exists.

… It’s very enrag­ing, and the Rode­na­tor pro­duces a result that has a sense of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and revenge — I mean your blow­ing ‘em up, I mean … I guess that’s a crude way of say­ing it, but I mean your putting gas down there, and the gasses go off and it pro­duces a good loud noise, and throws dirt around, and a lot of guys say: ‘You know, I don’t even care if I kill em it just makes me feel good to do it.‘

Today’s pho­to­gallery from the Big Pic­ture blog included an unusual scene…

A polar bear bites a mock Easter Bunny stuffed with food at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina on April 9, 2009.