–Here’s the story of a guy that deposits a fake check from a scam company–and comes out $95093.35 better. [via grs]
–Photos from a tornado chaser. Supercells, lightning, twisters, even aurora borealis. It’s all there.
–Scientific American weighs in on expertise and experts. It’s not all genetics:
The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not […]
This Sunday I read Michael Pollan’s book, The Botany of Desire. The book is a natural history of man and four plants: the apple, the tulip, cannabis, and the potato. Now that I think of it, this might be the only life-science book I’ve ever for recreation, but there are certainly worse places to begin.
Michael […]
–One man’s trash is another man’s trumpet. A gallery of weird musical instruments–some are handmade from scratch, some are nicely constructed from materials at hand. The organ-in-the-cave is just amazing.
–Romance, coffee, cigarettes, fashion… a photo-essay about Parisians. [via coudal]
–Nothing like the excitement of toppling dominoes. This group gets bonus points for 1) variety of toppled […]
–Kazaa is slowly getting out of its legal quagmire. That’s good news for everyone who cares. I have to wonder how it will hold up in the face of mass-market online retailers like iTunes, and allofmp3.com, mostly free services like Last.fm and Pandora, and the torrent venues like BitTorrent. The more the merrier I suppose. […]
–PC Magazine previews Sony’s forthcoming e-book reader, or at least a slightly less-than-full-featured proto. Accepts not only e-books but PDF files and RSS feeds as well. Looks great. This little guy could be wonderful for people like me who are almost always reading something and/or plotting what to read next.
–Well, it looks like I’ve […]
–Six-and-a-half billion people on this planet. And I’m only one pixel.
–Here’s an interesting essay & audio piece in the New Yorker on Mozart, written by a guy who has spent some time listening to the master’s works–all of them. “A hundred and eighty CDs… reissued in a handsome and surprisingly manageable array of seventeen boxes. […]
–Says Vanity Fair, no one does late-night like the Russians…try clubbing in Moscow.
–“Advertising has forgotten how to be subtle”. [via ald]
–All about books in the bathroom. Is it “a symbolic way to replace what’s lost through the act of voiding,” or more like “listening to music while you’re vacuuming”?[via pt.i]
–It seems like people like to click on eyes and brightly-colored things. I’m not sure what this means for society in the long run.
–USA Today reports some religious demographics in the United States, highlighting those who don’t belong to any church. Apparently, Washington is where all the heathens go, with some 25% in the “no […]
–I’ve always liked the Georgia font, especially those dropped numerals (1234567890). Lately it has become the “in” font for websites. One student finds that Georgia helps him get better grades.
–Steve Pavlina lists “10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job“. I’ve enjoyed his website quite a bit, minus the more out-there, new-agey essays (for example).
–I […]
Some sad news for Atlanta arts today: the Atlanta Ballet will no longer perform with live music. They have decided not to renew the musicians’ contracts for the 2006-2007 season, so all performances will be done with recorded music. I’m guessing the musician’s union wouldn’t budge, and there just ain’t that much free money for […]
–Music is louder than it used to be. These days the record and music broadcast industry is stuck in a louder=catchier mindset. I’ve also noticed the lack of range and nuance. Outside of the mass pop albums, one that sticks out in my mind is Coldplay’s latest. It was really good the first time I […]
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