A ghost crab eats oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill, shown glowing yellow-orange under ultraviolet light, at Gulf Islands National Seashore near Pensacola, Florida. Glowing Oil Could Aid Gulf Spill Cleanup (National Geographic)
And what we’re hearing is a result of them playing the mixing console as if it was a keyboard cum instruent… The making of 10cc’s I’m Not In Love
Matisse Yucca, 2010 DeLorean DMC-12 reflecting a Gerhard Richter, 2010 Brand New Paint Job
The timeline of the burrito documents the use of the burrito, a food made with tortillas and filling found in Mexico and the United States. Hand-held take-out foods like the burrito have a long history. Before the Spanish colonization of the Americas, indigenous peoples were eating hand-held snack foods like corn on the cob, popcorn [...]
Just a few pointers: 1. Make sure all the text is on the scanning bed 2. Try to have the text/page parallel to the scanning bed 3. Have fun with it! — Chris Svensson, 2010 Sian Writes Words
Have any football matches been captured on Google Earth?
From Wikipedia: Lenna or Lena is the name given to a standard test image originally cropped from a Playboy magazine centerfold picture of Lena Söderberg, a Swedish model who posed nude for the November 1972 issue. The image is probably the most widely used test image for all sorts of image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications. From [...]
This morning, the Board of Directors and the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock would be moved one minute back from five to six minutes to midnight. The group, which contains 18 Nobel laureates, cited “a more hopeful state of world affairs” [...]
In the meantime, bicycle-powered irrigation systems have become the latest subterfuge for ambitious grad students who want to be written up in Artforum. Doug Harvey, There Go the Zeros
Solitary Times’ tour of ABC Board Supply skateboard factory in Costa Mesa, CA
From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David, I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. Basically something representing peer to peer networking. I have to have something to show prospective [...]
Apparently, the Polish Polpress label, at some point in history, made several sets of “flexi-disc postcards” – postcards that you could play on your record-player – with material from a wide range of Zappa albums. The German underground Zappa reference books known as The Torchum Never Stops, list a mess of such postcards. We don’t [...]
Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Via Brain News.