- Comic Book Cartography
A lovely collection of maps and diagrams from comic books.
Tag: inspiration
Bookmarks for July 29, 2013
- What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences. : AskReddit
Some of these are particularly good.
Bookmarks for May 6, 2011
- From Me To You
Some really clever effects here, almost a redefinition of what a photo can be for the 21st century. Go look.
- One generation, new species – all-female lizard bred in a lab
Men to be declared obsolete within the next 100 years. Probably for the best.
- Even Robots Can Be Heroes – ScienceNOW
Robots running an evolving algorithm have been shown to spontaneously develop altruism as a beneficial strategy. One in the eye for objectivists or selfish bastards – it turns out thta evolution can, in fact, produce altruism, and that it works better than selfishness.
Bookmarks for March 15, 2011
- Gadget Daily News – Home – Apple Creating a Magazine Publishing Tool for Developers?
I am very, very interested in this. As, I imagine, a number of folks of my acquaintance will be.
- Inventables: Find new materials
I have no immediate use for most of the things this site sells, and yet, I want them all. Masses of fascinating stuff that the future will be made out of.
Bookmarks for February 22, 2011
- Edwin Himself is Edwin Negado » 10 lessons for young designers.
Good advice atany time, I feel.
Bookmarks for November 22, 2010
- TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine – Travel – News – msnbc.com
I have elderly family who have to wear bags exactly like this. The thought that anyone could consider it acceptable to humiliate someone in a manner like this makes me furious – I just keep imagining what it would feel like if it happened to my family. I reckon I would expect them to have legal recourse, and the assurance that someone had lost their job over this, because I don't care about security half so much as I care about basic human dignity and respect.
- The Ministry of Stories
Stop what you are doing, and go and look at this link. I promise you: it will make your day 100% better. This is amazing and wonderful stuff.
Bookmarks for October 13, 2010
- the creative internet (106 things)
Possibly the single biggest and most interesting time-suck I've seen on the internet to date. I've run across a lot of these things before, individually, and the ones I know are very awesome, which makes me think the rest of them will be too. One to sit down with when you've got time to spare, and want to be blow away by the artistic cleverness of others.
- Gay Sex vs. Straight Sex « OkTrends
I adore OKTrends (OKCupid's stats analysis blog) out all measure. Especially when they prove bigots wrong with y'know, actual facts.
- Locals and Tourists – a set on Flickr
Photography heatmaps for various cities – things tourist take photos of compared to locals. Fascinating stuff.
Bookmarks for July 22, 2010
- Why it's never too late to be a lesbian | Life and style | The Guardian
Fascinating article on the fluidity of sexuality – the idea that people, particularly women, can, in fact, switch from hetero- to homo-sexuality in different phases of their life – that it's possible to be sincerely heterosexual, and then later, sincerely homosexual without ever being bisexual, and without devaluing one's previous sexuality.
- America's Joyous Future
I laughed like a drain.
- Bookshelf Porn
I love my iPad – I'm carrying so many books around with me these days, and it is very liberating. But I also love my bookshelves. One day, I hope to have space for my books, but I accept that this may be a fools dream, and I may have to resign myself to an iPad-based future. In the meantime, I shall stare at this with envy.
- danah boyd | apophenia » MySpace and Facebook: How Racist Language Frames Social Media (and Why You Should Care)
I've been following boyd's research for a few years now, and have been particularly interested in her data regarding class/race/gender divides in social media use, and I really hope the rallying cry that she's putting out here has some effect, because I would really like to see people stop arguing over the scope the problem, and start talking about what can be done about it. "On the internet, no-one knows you're a dog" is both a triumph *and* a tragedy, and we need to start addressing that.
Bookmarks for February 25, 2010
- Serendipity
Massive collection of random-thing generators, handy set of tools.
- ESPN The Magazine – Rick Reilly: How about a little recognition for bowling champ Kelly Kulick? – ESPN
This is kinda saddening. Women beats all the men in the male dominated sport, press indifferent. OK, so it's bowling, and that's hardly a sport that gets lots of coverage. But still: Woman beats men at the ultimate man-sport, it being the one normally done with beer and crisps and so on. Maybe it should get a lot of sports coverage, but I would have though it would have got lots of human interest/chat-show coverage. Sad, like I say.
Bookmarks for November 10, 2009
- WikiReader | Home
Wikipedia in your pocket for cheap, not reliant on network access. Seriously tempting.
- Get Excited And Make Things! « Magical Nihilism
You've seen this by now, I just want a reference so I can come back and find the print-ready files at some point.
- The Post-Game Show : Danger, Danger; Gay Marriage
Andrew's really been on top form lately. One might almost think he really cares about all this gay rights business.