Month: December 2008

Requiem for VHS

Inspired by this Requiem for VHS Come bear witness to the Flying Head No longer airborne M-wrapped for all eternity Cart him away add an adhesive let him seal the … Read More

Colonel Alan E. Goldsmith

Colonel Alan E. Goldsmith, U.S. Air Force, Ret., 85, died December 22nd, 2008 in Walnut Creek, California.

A New Wind Blowing

by Mary Pitt The whole country is agog with the news of the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the billions he scammed from big investors, but nobody appears to realize that … Read More

Periodic Table of Awesome

From Dapperstache This is just nucking futz. “Noble Races” includes “Ninjas” – too much fun.

Uncanny valley

In my experience, shoehorning desktop conventions into web applications rarely ends well. I was never able to articulate exactly why, but the uncanny valley theory goes a long way towards explaining it

Fearing the Frightful Filibuster

by Mary Pitt The Republicans are already indicating their intent to use the same tactics that they used in the past two years in the minority to block many of … Read More

Color me amazed

Very, very cool idea. Multicolr Search Lab – Flickr Set

Brain TV

Okay, it is now officially time to be afraid – very, very afraid. Images read from human brain The Yomiuri Shimbun In a world first, a research group in Kyoto … Read More

Fantastic

If you haven’t discovered Daily Dose of Imagery do yourself a treat and add it to your feeds list. This man takes the best photos. His archive is to lose … Read More