Endless Parade of Excellence

Thursday, December 31, 2009
 
Your mission: Corner people at New Year's parties, and explain the whole "Blue Moon" nonsense to them.


Thursday, December 24, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Friday, December 18, 2009
 
The Physics of Space Battles. (Via MeFi)
One of the comments on that post linked to this. My day is officially shot.


Sunday, December 13, 2009

Wednesday, December 09, 2009
 
Weird spiral over Norway.
Apparently caused by a malfunctioning Russian ICBM.
(Via Space Weather.)


Wednesday, December 02, 2009
 
"Fishing in a pole boat, this was the heroic times of fishing tuna."
(Thanks, Kat!)


Tuesday, December 01, 2009
 
Classic Telescope Catalogs and Manuals. The Edmund catalogs were staple reading in our house.


Friday, November 27, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009
 
You don't need a Lava Lamp if you have 300,000 birds.
(via MeFi)


Tuesday, November 10, 2009
 
Art Clokey before Gumby and Pokey, or Davey and Goliath: Gumbasia.
(Thanks, Kat!)


Sunday, November 08, 2009

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Thursday, November 05, 2009
 
Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science project in which you get to classify galaxies, doing the grunt work for astronomers who have better things to do with their days. There's a good chance that yours will be the first human eyes to see a some of these galaxies. If you're lucky, you might see a Hanny's Voorwerp!


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
 
Life-size blue whale on your monitor! It's a little too big for my eeepc.
(via Coudal Partners)


Sunday, October 18, 2009
 
Ring-tailed ceiling cat!


 
Promo for the Polaroid SX-70, by Charles and Ray Eames.
(Thanks, Dan!)


Tuesday, October 13, 2009
 
Javascript-powered floral clock.


Friday, October 09, 2009
 
Yes. Your parents were awesome.
(via pretty much every other blog on the planet)


Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Saturday, October 03, 2009
 
Regretsy- horrors from the world of craft.
(all of it is ugly- some of it is slightly NSFW)
(via coudal partners)


Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
 
There, I fixed it.
(thanks, Rob)


Thursday, September 24, 2009

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Monday, August 10, 2009

Thursday, August 06, 2009
 
It's not all "crappy"-there are lots of contemporary art pieces, and a little too much Walter Potter, but I'll bet you'll have some interesting dreams after looking at Crappy Taxidermy.
(via Boing Boing)


 
"How to play: Press the buttons. Or something."
"Known issues: You died: Suggest not dying next time. Did you try pressing the buttons?"
The Chickening.
(via MeFi)


Wednesday, July 22, 2009
 
Pestival insect arts festival.


Sunday, July 19, 2009

Saturday, July 18, 2009
 
That hot-dog driving of yours is going to get you into trouble.
(via MeFi)


Saturday, July 11, 2009

Friday, July 10, 2009

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Wednesday, July 08, 2009
 
Mary's Birthday.
(Thanks, JC!)


Monday, July 06, 2009


Saturday, July 04, 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009
 
The Ross Sisters in Solid Potato Salad
(Thanks, Dafydd!.... Thafydd.)


Friday, June 19, 2009
 
This is what the bear probably looked like, except real.
(via MeFi)


Monday, June 15, 2009
 
Army of cats.
(Thanks, Ron!)


Sunday, June 07, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

Sunday, April 05, 2009
 
"An unusual machine is being used to help prevent ice jams and floods north of Winnipeg, Manitoba."
(Thanks, Ron!)


Friday, April 03, 2009
 
Nice profile in Torontoist of the guy who does the hand-lettered signs for Honest Ed's


Wednesday, March 25, 2009
 
"Many visitors show up early in the morning and leave in the very last
minute, only to come back next morning. The Miniatur Wunderland cannot
be explored in a couple of minutes. Therefore, it is virtually
impssible to show you the Wunderland in a 4 minute movie, but we can at
least give your some impressions"
(Thanks, Ron!)


Tuesday, March 24, 2009
 
Why not celebrate Ada Lovelace day by looking through flickr user nebarnix's science sets, and getting inspired?


Monday, March 23, 2009

Friday, March 20, 2009
 
Moving the replica of Fat Man from the former National Atomic Museum.


Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sunday, March 08, 2009
 
Smile, dammit.
(Thanks, Ron!)


Sunday, March 01, 2009

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
 
Fish with a see-through head. Video here. Metafilter thread here.
(Thanks, Jon, and Kat!)

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Monday, February 23, 2009
 
Nowadays, they'd cop out and do this in photoshop. Anyone have a white cat I can borrow?


Sunday, February 22, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009
 
A Communications Primer by Ray and Charles Eames.
(via Kottke.org)


Monday, February 16, 2009
 
Play with Spider! Unless you don't like spiders. Pirate the Cat likes spiders.
(thanks Kat!)


Monday, February 02, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009
 
After you finish your haggis, pour yourself a nice single malt and look through this.


Friday, January 23, 2009
 
"This chronograph was purchased by the Secret Service agents in the Secret Service employees' store, located at Secret Service headquarters in Washington, D.C "


Monday, January 19, 2009
 
Goodbye to Squid Blog and Music Thing.


Sunday, January 18, 2009
 
The Kids' page of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology has some awesome papercraft models of deep sea creatures and submersibles for you to build.

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Friday, January 09, 2009
 
The kind folks at Vague Terrain recently invited me to curate their Device Art issue. It's up now, so please take a look.


Monday, January 05, 2009
 
I picked up a stack of Hot Rod magazines the other day, partly because they all had ads for turbonique in them. After putting one on flickr, I took a look around to see what other people had, and found this.