Yearly Archives: 2010
Looking back on the spike
I finally got around to looking at the stats, and here’s a capture of the Perelman spike from back in March. Each horizontal division is a week’s worth of visits. Spiky, innit?
links for 2010-05-24: Treskilling Expensive
BBC News – Rare stamp sells for record price in Geneva auction Treskilling Yellow. Isn't it a bit curious that the bidders aren't revealing what they bid, nor the buyer what they paid? This wouldn't be one of those naked … more…
Chakaia Booker’s Twist of Fate
Chakaia Booker, Twist of Fate, 2003 (Rubber tire and wood, 25 x 31.5 x 20 inches) (via 3quarks)
Abiogenesis
YouTube – The Origin of Life – Abiogenesis – Dr. Jack Szostak How stable, self-replicating structures might develop, entirely through chemical processes. (via Slashdot thread)
pink terror
YouTube – Pink Terror More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here. (via 3quarksdaily)
links for 2010-04-17: David Cameron anecdote generator
Who has David Cameron been talking to? "Last week, I met an imaginary Iraq veteran, who told me that dubstep killed Diana." (tags: humour david-cameron politics election)
links for 2010-04-06: scrabble heresy, the behavioural sink
Escaping the Laboratory: the rodent experiments of John B. Calhoun & their cultural influence. – Free Online Library revisiting the behavioural sink (tags: social-studies rats John-Calhoun population density control) BBC News – Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule … more…
subblue’s animated mandelbulbs
The Formula on Vimeo Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few months ago, we had a hot lead towards immersive 3-D fractals (see Meet the Mandelbulbs) and now we have animations thereof… Music by The Formula (there’s only a … more…
New Kennard
Peter Kennard’s photomontage work was everywhere in the early to mid-80s, but I haven’t seen his name about for years. He hasn’t lost his touch. (via the publics – who describe Kennard, Steve Bell and Banksy as contemporaries, which is … more…
informal announcement?
I just looked at some election-related junk mail, which tells me, in large white sans-serif on a red ground: The election on May 6th is about our future I was under the impression that the date hadn’t yet been announced, … more…