Not Like the Others
Oh, the joys of Google suggest. One of these things just doesn’t belong…
Gravity (One Gallon)
So I suppose all you have to do now is extract a small amount. A quantum if you will. Problem solved.
Imperial Beauty
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:
Monty Python Meets Star Trek
What could be better?
Google Maps Confuses Cambridges
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.
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Useless Physics Cartoon
How to Make a Baby
This is totally brilliant. My favorite thing ever today. Science!
(via BoingBoing)
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WP-Typogrify Hacked to Work With WP-Captions
[Update 7/7/09: WP-Typogrify has now merged with WP-Hyphenate, and is compatible with captions out of the box.]
Hamish Macpherson’s WP-Typogrify is one of my favorite WordPress plugins. I started using it especially for the SmartyPants functionality, which fixes “dumb quotes” and poor man’s apostrophes, among other things.
However, I was disappointed to find that this functionality breaks WordPress captions (introduced in WP 2.6), which I’d rather not live without. Development on WP-Typogrify seems to have slowed — there hasn’t been a new version in a while, so I’ve taken the liberty of hacking version 1.6 to fix this incompatibility, at least so I can use SmartyPants until an official fix comes out. The adjustments I made are simple, and I have no idea whether they’re maximally robust. But feel free to
and use at your own risk. Continue reading…
The World Without Us: Chernobyl
The bizarre and interesting site spacecollective.org has a fascinating article about Chernobyl, which, after having been abandoned by humans for 20 years, is being retaken by its natural environment.
The people are gone, and in their place are now thriving populations of deer, elk, wild boar, wolves, and even lynx. Trees are pushing up through Lenin Avenue and moss is clinging to the broken sidewalks and abandoned buildings throughout the 19-miles that make up the Exclusion Zone. […]
Radiation levels are still too high for long term exposure, but the Ukraine has opened up the nearby city of Pripyat to daytrippers looking to catch a glimpse of what an urban center would look like after 20 years without a human footprint.
Another striking page on SpaceCollective is the gallery, which has a wealth of science related/inspired imagery. Worth checking out, but though beautiful, it’s a little overwhelming and poorly organized.
Bicycle Built for 2000
A totally sweet collaborative music project from Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey:
Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.