Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist adapted the traditional “tumbling blocks†quilt pattern and made a pieced quilt based on the videogame Q*bert! Link
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Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist adapted the traditional “tumbling blocks†quilt pattern and made a pieced quilt based on the videogame Q*bert! Link
Dark Roasted Blend has posted another edition of weird signs, including this scary infographic from an Israeli bus. Link
Pic-Tac-Toe is a nine-picture grid puzzle where the three pictures in each row, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal, share a common theme. You figure out what they have in common! The middle square has to pertain to four different themes. Todd constructed one online; can you figure it out? http://home.earthlink.net/~tagross/personal/KJ/pic-tac-toe.html to the puzzle. The answers are in this forum; you’ll have to highlight text to see the guesses. -via Ken Jennings
It’s Walk vs. Don’t Walk in this video by Joeri Holsheimer. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Viral Video Chart
Birthday Stars is a generator that will find a star whose distance matches your age in light years from earth. For example, if you are 28 years and 6 months old, it will find a star 28.5 light years away from earth. The light arriving now from “your†star was generated at the time of your birth. Light travels at over a billion kilometers per hour {wiki}, so these stars are very far away. http://outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/birthstars/year.php -via the Presurfer
Damaris B. Sarria is a Thermal Protection Systems Engineer on the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and is pursuing her Masters in Aeronautical Science. She is documenting her work and progress towards her goal of becoming an astronaut on her blog How I Am Becoming An Astronaut. Her latest post is about analyzing the tile damage on the current mission of the space shuttle Endeavor. Link -via Bad Astronomy
There is no end to the ideas people have for decorating their bodies. Neatorama featured science tattoos recently; now here is a gallery of anatomical tattoos! Link -via Respectful Insolence
An Egyptian mummy known as Demetrios at the Brookyn Museum is wrapped in linen decorated with rare red paint. X-ray fluorescence revealed that the paint matched the chemical analysis of lead from Spain’s Rio Tinto region. Demetrio’s death is calculated to be 94-100 AD, according to museum conservator Lisa Bruno.
"At the time, Egypt was in the Roman Empire, so the finding reveals how widespread trade was throughout the empire," Bruno said. "The mix of cultures probably was not unlike what exists today in Egypt."
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Wired Blogs is looking at who is editing Wikipedia entries in order to protect or shape their own image.
Wired is collecting cases of Wikipedia edits coming from those who stand to lose or gain depending on the accesible information. Several are already listed. They invite anyone to contribute cases you know of, or that you can find via Griffith’s search tool. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html -via Metafilter
Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith just launched an unofficial Wikipedia search tool that threatens to lay bare the ego-editing and anonymous flacking on the site. Enter the name of a corporation, organization or government entity and you get a list of IP addresses assigned to it. Then with one or two clicks, you can see all the anonymous edits made from those addresses anywhere in Wikipedia's pages.
Wired is collecting cases of Wikipedia edits coming from those who stand to lose or gain depending on the accesible information. Several are already listed. They invite anyone to contribute cases you know of, or that you can find via Griffith’s search tool. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/vote-on-the-top.html -via Metafilter
Fark displayed its 3 millionth active thread today. Fark is an odd news aggregator and networking site launched by Drew Curtis in 1999. Fark now receives around 2,000 submissions a day. Congratulations to Drew and the gang at Fark on the milestone! Link
The Watercone is a low-tech device for turning saltwater into fresh water for human consumption. You put saltwater into the base, set it in the sun, and as the water evaporates and then condenses, it runs into the trough at the cone’s edge, leaving the salt in the base. Turn it over and pour the water out of the top! Link -via Reddit
It seems solid to me, but to a physicist this is a valid question. Glass is one of the
As water cools to its freezing point, it crystallizes into ice. When glass cools from a hot liquid, it slows down but never crystallizes. Researchers at Emory University have studied the phenomenon for years, but have yet to find a definitive answer, which could greatly impact the science of nanotechnology. Link
"squishy" substances that cannot be pinned down as a solid or liquid. Referred to as "soft condensed materials," they include everyday substances such as toothpaste, peanut butter, shaving cream, plastic and glass.
As water cools to its freezing point, it crystallizes into ice. When glass cools from a hot liquid, it slows down but never crystallizes. Researchers at Emory University have studied the phenomenon for years, but have yet to find a definitive answer, which could greatly impact the science of nanotechnology. Link
Lantern Fish is a beautiful and creepy animation of various deep sea fish, directed by Adam Gault and illustrated by Stephanie Augustine. http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2669 -via Transbuddha
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