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One cool thing to have come out of all the typewriter discussion going on these days.
posted by delmoi at 11:19 PM PST - 21 comments

Belly Rolls, mmmmm . . .
posted by jeremias at 8:33 PM PST - 3 comments

Take 100 photos of 100 faces in a metropolitan area, morph them together to create a composite male and female face, and you can see the face of tomorrow.
posted by Orb at 7:31 PM PST - 22 comments

Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together.
posted by macadamiaranch at 7:11 PM PST - 12 comments

The British Library is putting online 93 high-resolution digitised copies of 21 of Shakespeare's plays. They include many lines and passages that are different from those found in the First Folio editions, which were not printed until after Shakespeare's death. BBC article.
posted by stbalbach at 6:29 PM PST - 9 comments

Catch NASA's solar capsule!
Via B3ta
posted by Mwongozi at 3:51 PM PST - 13 comments

Forged Documents? For Shame.
posted by alethe at 2:55 PM PST - 168 comments

Yeah, so you have to guess the Google Image Search query from the images it returns.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 2:53 PM PST - 6 comments

Kid Beyond is a nifty vocal percussionist I just saw perform. Hear some tracks online [flash]. Try Kashmir. Think: one dude, a mic, and a delay pedal. If you live near Berkeley, you can learn beatbox from the kid himself at the JazzSchool on Sunday, November 7.
posted by scarabic at 12:25 PM PST - 16 comments

"Al Gore...lives on my block." Humorous song by one of Al Gore's neighbors (warning: audio starts up right away when you go to the site). See this week's New Yorker for the full story, but the song itself is quite entertaining with no background at all.
posted by GaelFC at 12:18 PM PST - 19 comments

There appear to be many similarities between the lives of Krishna and Jesus Christ. Exploring the linkage between the two does make one wonder whether the similarities are coincidences or for a very good reason.
posted by riffola at 12:18 PM PST - 22 comments

How to make fried oreos A pictoral guide.
posted by konolia at 11:38 AM PST - 25 comments

Meeksville centers around Joe Meek, Britain's first independent record producer, whose DIY engineering wizardry would transform record-making during the Sixties. Five years after an international #1 hit in the Tornadoes' space-age Telstar (Windows Media or RealPlayer), he would self-destruct, in an end not without tragedy or speculation. His works--along with his trademarked name--live on.
posted by LinusMines at 11:31 AM PST - 4 comments

Behavior in the voting booth. (by Louis Menand)
posted by advil at 11:03 AM PST - 7 comments

Phot'optic Collection — 'Accumulation interactive d'appareils, de publicités de catalogues et de matériels photographiques français.'

Discovered within Ramage's attic.
posted by tenseone at 10:49 AM PST - 2 comments

Testy Copy Editors is a site run by WaPo Financial Copy Editor Philip Blanchard, with guest columns and discussions dedicated to blowing off steam for people in the occasionally tense business of making words fit, parse properly and make sense in print.

If you've actually edited copy under a deadline, or know someone who has, you know how thankless the job can sometimes be.
posted by chicobangs at 10:36 AM PST - 16 comments

"To Kill the Child" and "Leaving Beirut" - two new songs written in response to the Iraq war by Roger Waters, and posted to his website in various streaming formats.
posted by GriffX at 10:14 AM PST - 14 comments

"Conditions are deteriorating, Dwight!" Herald writer's comprehensive guide to Hurricane Journalism. Very important reading for storm-chasing reporters, especially now, as Ivan the Terrible sets its eye on Jamaica, Cuba, and Florida. Found via CapitalWeather. Also check out CaribPundit for Ivan updates and reminiscences of island hurricanes. (Ivan the Terrible? Eye? Get it? Eh? Eh? Yeah, I didn't think it was funny on Fox News either.)
posted by brownpau at 10:04 AM PST - 13 comments

Gettin involvit in the Scottish Pairlament The Scottish Pairlament is here for tae represent aw Scotland's folk. We want tae mak siccar that as mony folk as can is able tae find oot aboot whit the Scottish Pairlament dis and whit wey it warks.
posted by xmutex at 10:03 AM PST - 16 comments

Who's A Rat? "Largest online database of informants and agents." 407 profiles and counting.
posted by mwhybark at 9:43 AM PST - 3 comments

Dick Cheney claims that disappointing jobs numbers are undercounting ebay power sellers. The man is on a tear!
posted by luser at 9:21 AM PST - 47 comments

Heavens Above! This is a pretty neat website for anybody interested in astronomy. Give it your location (City names work, even my white bread red-neck plains town did) and it'll give you star maps, fly by times and viewing instructions for satellites and so on.
posted by substrate at 9:12 AM PST - 6 comments

doodlebug... create and playback doodles, online. The doodle linked here is of Clint Eastwood (kinda). [note: flash] via j-walk
posted by crunchland at 8:15 AM PST - 13 comments

My cattle grazing grounds are not my idea and vice versa. But thanks to laws I can "own" the idea as if the idea was a cow ; link goes to a interesting university-level paper [PDF]. The author makes some interesting analysis and points attention to the fact that current intellectual property laws can go against well established economic theories at the expense of free market competition theory, technical innovations and society-as-a-whole best interest.

Recommended to people with economic theory experience , but also to everyday public-goods-privatization opposers as the paper isn't (intentionally) way too technical.
posted by elpapacito at 7:20 AM PST - 4 comments

Celebrities have really bad hair days too......according to the brilliant folks responsible for Photoshop and those bored folks responsible for these photoshop contests.
posted by hidely at 6:27 AM PST - 10 comments

Flying frisbee dog.
posted by srboisvert at 6:11 AM PST - 14 comments

The Pacific Wrecks Database is an impressive collection of information about lost and found WWII wrecks in the Pacific. The site is a little hard to navigate (I suggest using the past news archives and the direct links in the description slug on the first page, rather than the drop-down menu,) but the content is worth the trouble. Essays from veterans, discovery tales, photographs, maps, and more await.
posted by headspace at 4:15 AM PST - 3 comments

Sure, it's just more Bush-bashing, but it's gussied up durn pretty. Philip Gourevitch on Bushspeak.

He is grossly underestimated as an orator by those who presume that good grammar, rigorous logic, and a solid command of the facts are the essential ingredients of political persuasion, and that the absence of these skills indicates a lack of intelligence. Although Bush is no intellectual, and proud of it, he is quick and clever, and, for all his notorious malapropisms, abuses of syntax, and manglings or reinventions of vocabulary, his intelligence is—if not especially literate—acutely verbal.

posted by grrarrgh00 at 1:42 AM PST - 87 comments