The Mascots for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing have been announced. They’re adorable little cartoon characters. That said, the only thing that scares me more than the one holding a pistol (or the one holding a sword) is the one holding a pistol and sword, riding a horse.
Month: November 2005
Greetings from Idiot America
I haven’t posted much material related to Intelligent Design, mostly because the argument seems so stupid. It shouldn’t even be called an argument. This Esquire article (full text) was too good to pass up though. It focuses on Intelligent Design, but also touches on the broader dumbing down of America.
The Creation Museum ranks up there as one of my favourites from this whole debacle. This is a photo of one of their displays, featuring a giraffe and Adam naming a Sabertooth tiger. Nice kitty.
Origami Earth
The NGDC has some interesting global relief and mapping materials available including an origami earth (and dodecahedron).
The Great Everyday Red
An article describing a recent push of wines from the Rhone Valley. I spent a couple weeks there in high-school, that’s when I started to enjoy wine. Picked up a bottle of the Perrin Reserve last night, it’s damn good.
Egg McMuffin maker
Egg & Muffin 2-Slice Toaster and Egg Poacher. Oh god, I want one.
50 Greatest Independent Films
Empire’s list of the 50 greatest independent films. I’ve seen 17 out of 50.
The world as a palette
The I/O Brush out of MIT is a amazing to watch. It uses a ccd embedded in the brush to record video images that are used as the palette for subsequent strokes. Just watch the video is mind-blowing; it would be awesome to see a room full of kids using it.
5Q with Paul B. Drohan
Piero has posted a new 5Q interview with Paul B. Drohan of D5ive for Seal Club.
5 Things about the next Transformers movie
Talking the tawk
The Atlas of North American English is a new book by Dr. William Labov, that constitutes the first coast-to-coast mapping of the major dialects spoken in the US and Canada. There is a draft chapter and a number of maps available at the UPenn site.
Girls don’t exist on the intarweb
It’s worth reading girls don’t exist on the intarweb, a take on online gaming from a woman’s perspective. I’m not surprised by the negative reception she gets, it’s kind of sad though. The rest of the issue also deals with women in gaming. Alanah schools me in most of the games that we play; I have no doubts about female gaming ability. Guys would probably notice their asses getting kicked more often if they produced games that women actually wanted to play.
Also known as
Some famous people who are known for other things. Bruce Dickinson is the frontman for Iron Maiden. He also flies commercial jets, is a novelist and a fencing expert.