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Platypus slippers? Check and mate...

Platypus slippers? Check and mate...:

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Public Service Announcement: Always give 1 car length for every 5-10 miles per hour.

Public Service Announcement: Always give 1 car length for every 5-10 miles per hour.:

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Challenge: Who Is That Woman? [Search Research]

Fashioning Apollo: How the Spacesuit Came To Be

Do’Raath and the Health Inspector

Do’Raath and the Health Inspector:

My friends! I’m taking the week off for the holidays. Please, enjoy these fan favs.

Nose Thief

Nose Thief:

Nose Thief from woot. Funny..(Read...)

To Boldy Go…

To Boldy Go…:

My friends! I’m taking the week off for the holidays. Please, enjoy these fan favs.

But don’t worry, new daily strips will resume after the new year. Thanks for understanding!

-Lucas

I’d like to thank the Meteorite Men: Geoff and Steve, for being such good sports about this storyline. Please, check out my blog post on when I met the them a few months ago!

Don’t forget the new book “Toys in the Attic” is now for sale! Head on over to the store and get your copy of either the Artist Edition, or the Regular Edition, today!

How to Speak Wookiee: A Manual for Intergalactic Communication

The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossoms

Who’s Next? [Pic]

Happy Christmas folks! Don’t forget the Christmas...

Happy Christmas folks! Don’t forget the Christmas...:

Happy Christmas folks! Don’t forget the Christmas appeal :)

Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible

Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible:

What Don Giovanni’s lovers have to do with the poetics of catalogues.

As a lover and maker of lists, this made my heart sing: In 2009, the great Umberto Eco became a resident at the Louvre, where he chose to focus his studies on “the vertigo of lists,” bringing his poetic observational style to the phenomenon of cataloguing, culling, and collecting. He captured his experience and insights in The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay, where he charts the Western mind’s obsessive impulse for list-making across music, literature and art, an impulse he calls a “giddiness of lists” but demonstrates that, in the right hands, it can be a “poetics of catalogues.”

Der Spiegel interviewed Eco about his project at the Louvre, yielding the following perl:

The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right.” ~ Umberto Eco

The interview is fantastic in its entirety, as is The Infinity of Lists: An Illustrated Essay.

HT @rubenrp

Olive Garden won't serve capers because they're too 'unexpected,' or pesto because it's too 'green' [Stupid]

Olive Garden won't serve capers because they're too 'unexpected,' or pesto because it's too 'green' [Stupid]:

[link] [168 comments]

Another African Bull Frog Playing ant crusher

Another African Bull Frog Playing ant crusher:

FAIL! !!!!!! lol...(Read...)

Challenge: Earthquake Weather in San Francisco [Search Research]

Challenge: Earthquake Weather in San Francisco [Search Research]:

Googler Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution—using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. This week's challenge: Earthquake Weather in San Francisco More »

The saddest thing I've ever heard on an airplane

The saddest thing I've ever heard on an airplane:

The sad, useless, terrifying, and awesome things I've heard while flying.

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Why didn't I think of this... pillowcase = sheet storage = always matches

Power Outage at Candlestick Park [gif]

Power Outage at Candlestick Park [gif]:

submitted by carsonbiz [link] [45 comments]

There there

There there:

submitted by ItWillBeMine [link] [25 comments]

Mama Gorilla Disapproves

Mama Gorilla Disapproves:

submitted by wantitbringit [link] [18 comments]

Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos

Google Outlines AI-Based Number Reading For Street View Photos:

mikejuk writes "A recent Google research paper outlines how it might use AI to read digits in natural images — specifically Street View photos. The idea is to automatically extract the number of each house as captured by Street View and then use this to improve the geocoding data returned by Google. When you next ask for directions to a particular address the new data could be used to show you a street view looking directly at the house you specified."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Nursery school bans children from making "diamond in the sky" sign while singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star", because vagina [Silly]

SGreads: "HOW DOCTORS DIE" Hint: It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be! http://t.co/FBRexfOh (@SGreads)

SGreads: "HOW DOCTORS DIE" Hint: It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be! http://t.co/FBRexfOh (@SGreads): SGreads: "HOW DOCTORS DIE" Hint: It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be! http://t.co/FBRexfOh (@SGreads)

Notify the Vatican Immediately!

Notify the Vatican Immediately!:

Cube neighbor on phone with IT help desk: I turned off my pc last night and I turned it on this morning and the screen is black, nothing is showing up.
IT: Is your monitor on?
Cube neighbor: Yes.
IT: Turn it off.
Cube neighbor: Oh, wow, it just started working! I wonder what happened?

Miami, Florida

Overheard by: Lady L

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Yo-Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom with a wombat.

Yo-Yo Ma on the floor of a bathroom with a wombat.:

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12.13.2011

12.13.2011: New Cyanide and Happiness Comic.

544 - Alphabet Maps of Great Britain and Ireland

544 - Alphabet Maps of Great Britain and Ireland: If you’re in the north of England and you’re in a town ending in -by, you’re in former Danish-ruled territory [1]. If the toponym starts with beau- or bel-, it was probably named by Normans [2]. And if it contains the prefix Avon- or the suffix -combe, it is one of many place names of Celtic origin ...

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Gifts For Malcontents & Curmudgeons [12 Days Of Buying]

Gifts For Malcontents & Curmudgeons [12 Days Of Buying]:

It's tough to buy for the friend who has everything — but what about the friend who hates everything? Never fear: we have suggestions to help you melt your most curmudgeonly buddy's frozen, twisted heart — or at least help her revel in its twistedness. More »

Tuesday, Help Carrboro Become "Lovetown"

Tuesday, Help Carrboro Become "Lovetown": <br />

The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online

The Encyclopedia of Sci-fi Goes Live Online:

arcite writes "After twenty years of hard work, the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction website has recently gone live. It's an online database containing thousands of entries for all things Sci-fi, and a great place to read all about your favourite authors, characters, themes, and everything else."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Aldi set to open Jan. 12

Aldi set to open Jan. 12:

The Aldi grocery store off N.C. 751 near The Streets at Southpoint Mall in Durham now has a new projected opening date of Jan.

Orange Is The Hot Color For 2012, Adjust Accordingly [Color Theory]

Orange Is The Hot Color For 2012, Adjust Accordingly [Color Theory]:

Surely you stocked up on pinkish wares when the color "honeysuckle" was declared Pantone's Color of the Year 2011, but it's already time to update your wardrobe/home decor/personal color preferences. The company dubbed "tangerine tango" next year's "in" color after seeing requests for an orange hue from designers and retailers. But don't think this is some scheme to make consumers crap they don't need. It was selected for its "happy connotations," meant to cheer us during these dark economic times. Though, as the Wall Street Journal points out, it was popular in the 1920s and 1960s, with a brief comeback in the 1980s, or "heady economic periods later followed by devastating crashes." So if you subscribe to bullshit economic indicators, orange is really nothing to be happy about. More »