DSD

A hilar­i­ous post from Edith Zimmerman.

Via yayev­ery­day,

Jeff de Boer is a Calgary-based multi-media artist with an inter­na­tional rep­u­ta­tion for pro­duc­ing some of the world’s most orig­i­nal and well-crafted works of art. With an empha­sis on metal, he is best known for such bod­ies of work as suits of armour for cats and mice, armour ties and sword-handled brief­cases, rocket lamps and pop cul­ture ray guns, and exquis­ite high art, abstract works called exo­forms.

The best part of this video may not be the ridicu­lous crossover machine, but the hilar­i­ous reporter with min­i­mal skat­ing skills (via Neatorama):

Via Neatorama, comes this swingin’ entry by Berke­ley grad­u­ate stu­dents Patrick Ben­nett and Ryan Miyakawa in the “What is Nano?” com­pe­ti­tion:

Van­ity Fair has a dif­fer­ent kind of slideshow that has its own kind of his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance…

Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel, The Pretty Young Things

As I sus­pect most high energy physi­cists do, I stay acutely aware of what’s hap­pen­ing on Lubos Motl’s blog. Today, he offered a par­tic­u­larly illu­mi­nat­ing anal­ogy describ­ing our rela­tion­ship to some cur­rent phys­i­cal theories

So we are some­what sim­i­lar to a prim­i­tive tribe that finds a wash­ing machine (pro­duced by some­one else). At the begin­ning, they will use it as a fridge. As their knowl­edge increases, they will learn how to do the laun­dry. How­ever, if they become even more skill­ful, they may update the device a bit — or press a hid­den but­ton — and use it as a fridge, too. I didn’t tell you: it was one of the wash­ing machines that can also cool the clothes down.

Brows­ing The Super­est again, I stum­bled across this, and couldn’t help shar­ing it:

This site is so ridicu­lous. I highly rec­om­mend start­ing from the begin­ning some­time, and work­ing your way through.