- Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens | Wired Science | Wired.com
Fascinating and stomach-turningly sinister.
- Whisky Marketplace
Somebody has finally made a whisky shopping site that I can get excited about – it'll let me filter by age, price, and other characteristics so I can actually explore looking for something interesting, new and in-budget, rather than having to know what I'm looking for. Nice.
Tag: nature
Links for Friday August 19th 2011 through Monday August 22nd 2011
- rentzsch.tumblr.com: HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack
If you are running the LAMP stack on your websites, and not doing all this, you need to do some work.
- Bootstrap, from Twitter
Here's a nice framework for building web-app interfaces. I can see myself using this to put stuff together.
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
I wish I'd been that clever when I was 13. Hell, I wish I was that clever now.
Bookmarks for August 19, 2011
- 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World
I wish I'd been that clever when I was 13. Hell, I wish I was that clever now.
Bookmarks for September 23, 2009
- Let Pandas Die out, Says Naturalist – ABC News
I have been saying this for years. They're bad tempered (even by the standards of bears), given any sort of choice, they will choose eat food that is nassively bad for them, and they don't like shagging. And while I know I fit two of those three criteria myself, the difference between me and them is that I'm not draining the resources of charities that could be better used for other, more useful species.
- russell davies: ruricomp
Some musing on the fate of those who may not get caught up in the u(r)bicomp culture shift of the coming decades.
- LRB · Roy Mayall: Diary
Fucked off by postal strikes? (I know I am – my twice-weekly delivery from Graze hasn't had any delicious fresh fruit in for weeks, and often turns up on completely the wrong day of late.) Go and read this, and learn a bit about what's actually going on with your post. Maybe you'll have a bit more sympathy for the poor bastards who have to deliver it. I know I do.
- Red Dust – a gallery on Flickr
Jesus cocking christ. A) I am glad I do not live anywhere near Sydney right now. B) These are some fucking stunning photos – it's like looking at life in some future martian city.
Bookmarks for May 18, 2009
- The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth
Maybe this is where I should go on holiday next. (No, I'm not seriously considering it – it's hot, and y'know, not a city. But it is amazing looking.)