October 2007 Archives

links for 2007-10-31

Cookbook on twitter: recipes (serves 3-4) in 140 character. A linguistic topical challenge sometimes, which makes it all the better imo.

Hey, Hot Shot! - a photo competition / exposition project of some kind. I admit, I needed to keep the link around mostly only for the "Don't wreck my car." connection. (fannish injoke [sg:a], don't worry).

I got that link from this Kottke.org post, which I also want to keep around.

Via the great K as well: A story using only words from The Cat in the Hat. Glee.

For the hopeful, the future, or the busy: Brijit - to revisit later. And in a different category: Exploratree.

This seems worth mentionning also:
Scientists began sequencing DNA from all sorts of environments. After looking at human gut microflora, they learned that each individual has his or her own characteristic set of a thousand species. “These represent three million genes that you carry,” points out Kolter, “as compared to the estimated 18,000 genes of the human genome. So you are living and exchanging [metabolites] constantly with a diverse pool of some three million genes.” Microbiologists continue to find new taxonomic divisions of microbes far faster than they can figure out how to culture them.

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I stole this from ML - it fills me with snarky glee, I admit. 300 was so vile. Watch it! And, and while you're at it, watch this too. AWESOME.

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LOLdolls anyone?

Be a realdoll yourself! Fascinating, and so full of potential... *spins (plastic) yarns*

IM-IN-UR-WASTELANDS-RUINING-UR-LITERATURES - I know most intelligent people are tired of LOLstuff already, but I've been hooked on repetitive humor since forever, so that doesn't apply to me. Comes w/ bonus LOLCarroll in there, which totally made my day with glee:
waz brillig an teh slithy tovez
waz gyrin an gimblin in teh
INVISIBLE WABE
all mimsy waz teh borogovez
mome rathez can haz outgrabe?

im in yr tulgey wood snicker-snackin yr jabberwockeyz
(thank you, gottabefunky, thank you.)

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Wednesday

In Los Angeles you can be standing next to another human being but you may as well be standing next to a geological formation. Whatever that thing is, it doesn't care about you. And you don't care about it. Get over it. You're alone in the world. Do something interesting.
Onlinefandom.com:
Economists seem to be shocked that more than a million people have paid an average of somewhere around 4 pounds to download the Radiohead album.

links for 2007-10-16

horse & carriage

Sex & marriage w/ artificial partners : "The question is not if this will happen, but when," Levy said. "I am convinced the answer is much earlier than you think."

I feel tired just thinking of it.

Snooze or Lose / Less sleep for kids : more obesity, impaired cognitive abilities, deepset negativity. Oh, and TV-watching might not be the root of all evil, after all.

links for 2007-10-15

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Simple Juxtaposition

These have stayed open and "with me" for a while now. Right next to one another. The Pleasure of Unpleasure by Kristina Lloyd on Lust Bites & Power, Force, Overwhelmsion and Beauty by Bitchy Jones. And today, this popped up, and perhaps it's a little, hm, to the side from the first links, in a related territory but not exactly in the same 'space'... Or perhaps like me you'll find that there's a lot these posts have in common : Me versus You; All of us versus The Man.

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