$Quid: Don't Go Boating If You Owe Money to a Giant Squid

This is great.

Are you peeling bananas wrong? - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine

My friend Chris reckons that bananas ripen from the end furthest from the stem. But I just ate one that was clearly ripest at the stem end. This article is inconclusive.

Dennis' Whiskey Corner: Rye

"The sky is free, but the earth lives. The earth brings all our needs, but the sky contains our dreams. Ultimately earth cannot not prevent our desires from going where we cannot walk. Old Overholt is of the earth, yet from there it leads my spirit far away."

IMG_2800 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Sweet dress made from eyeball yarn

Insubordiknit Handspun Yarn Shop: Vitreous humor

Yarn with eyeballs!

Baby's First Teratoma

More things for Catie to knit

YouTube - Robot helping Human - correcting human error

It's condescend-o-bot, the humiliator! The best part is the way he makes almost a complete circle with his arm before screwing in the nut, and the meat sack's eyes obligingly follow. (via engadget)

Ostrich Egg | Dead Programmer's Cafe

The baked ostrich egg roll at the end is surely a dailyhfs candidate

Language Log » The Big Penis Book

Starts with "big penis book", ends up talking about why e.g. "penis lengthy article" is unacceptable but "penis indigenous nudity" is acceptable. I can't *not* bookmark this.

The Tombs of Asciiroth

This is a really impressive Web-based rougelike. Actually it seems like a pretty great roguelike and the Web part is incidental, which is itself quite an accomplishment imo

GoNintendo » Blog Archive » Will Wright defends Miyamoto ‘games are better than toys’ statement, shares more of his Nintendo love- What are you waiting for?

"The Wii, the way it’s reading the controller, you actually have a lot more bandwidth. It’s still a straw, but it’s a big straw - and for me that’s the really interesting part about the Wii." -- interesting perspective from Will Wright.

Michael J. Totten: The Decline and Fall of Adbusters Magazine

I just bought this magazine, and have learned two things: 1) I am desperately unhip, since according to this guy it jumped the shark in 2004; 2) it hasn't improved since that time.

See-Through Animal Photos, Translucent Creatures Wallpapers, Download, Photos -- National Geographic

Sweet gallery of translucent animals that Bruce Schneier linked to accidentally

EXTERMINUS

A cqqqquuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu a (via Jason)

C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++

Whine whine (but I have whined about these things too, so it must be legitimate whining).

Why licenses don’t matter (and why they do) « Sententia cdsmithus

I'd come to the same conclusions as this guy, but he gets there via a rather different route (though we both used the "computer programmers like to pretend that people behave logically" theory)

Mad Engineering: Five Reasons You Don't Have a Personal Jet Pack Yet

"So why the hell aren't we all flying to work via rocket power? Because you're about as aerodynamic as a potato, my friend." Someone had to say it.

SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.

This is such a great opportunity for b-grade horror-film-style mind control.

The beat issue « Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction

On having characters in interactive fiction react to their environment in a satisfying, illusion-preserving way.

Sexual Math on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This is way better than that Pink Floyd cover (SFW)

Mercurial and Darcs : The Fugue

Hey, I've used about a million RCSes now, I did what this guy did (darcs to mercurial), and most importantly I'm a guy on the Internet with an opinion -- I should blog about this too sometime.

MY COLLECTION OF RECORDED 78 RPM RECORDS - FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS

Pretty great.

Rands In Repose: The Quirkbook

Two M&Ms at a time? Volume evenly divisible by 5? Freaks.

Language Log » Braised enterovirus, anyone?

Mmm, braised enterovirus. Also: fuck the pot, bao zai, water to boil the type. Fuck a bullfrog

google-code-prettify - Google Code

This actually guesses which language to use. That's way cooler than Google's recent reimplementation of ASN.1

Elephas maximus - Racetrack Playa

Dolomite races!

Age 1 to 100 banging on a drum

Awesome!

FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com

Culturally, it's difficult to distinguish SF from "the mainstream" because "the mainstream" *is* SF. But it does not follow intellectual trends, and is morally heterogeneous, so to critics it remains "a genre".

Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

Note to self: don't turn out like these guys

Here's the new Mirror's Edge 2D trailer and some 3D screenshots - Joystiq

This looks like a sweet concept. I love the idea of parkour but am too lazy to actually do it. A game about it would be just the ticket.

We have lost control of the apparatus

"databases suck"

Core77 / design magazine + resource / post

Algae Eating Cyprinids from Thailand and Neighboring

The flying fox-looking fish with the smooth stripe is fine in a community tank. The remarkably-similar-looking fish also known as a flying fox with a slightly bumpy stripe is intensely territorial and hates other fish of the same species

Fake Difficulty - Television Tropes & Idioms

Hide & Seek Festival 2008 : Programme

Looks fun. Partially organised by my favourite LJ stalkee severalbees

Desktop Tower Defense

Interesting genre

Traditional Irish Soda Bread - Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread

NO YEAST

Play ELEPHANT RAVE, a free online game on Kongregate

omg, best game ever! Turn the volume up.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) on Vimeo

Best SBS ad ever.

Video Games: New Video Game About Designing Video Games Is Probably A Sign That No One Will Ever Again Play Outside

Like many well-adjusted nerds, I sometimes fantasise about creating an MMORPG, but don't want the backbreaking deadlines, heartache, and million-dollar losses. Seems like this game's for me!

Super Mario Bros.: blik Surface Graphics

Awesome

St George Aquariums Pty Ltd

Apparently this is the best place in Sydney to buy aquariums :(

Sourdough Bread: How To Begin (easy sourdough for the beginner or novice)

I've had a sourdough starter (named George) in the fridge for several weeks. Now I want to make the bread!

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

I use less than seven habits

Frank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The guy behind the counter translated my order for a "flat white" into "one Frank Williams". Here is Frank Williams.

William Gibson Interview: William Gibson Talks to io9 About Canada, Draft Dodging, and Godzilla

"I don't want people to be completely sucked into the mechanism. They should remember that they're riding on a rollercoaster. But I roll with the human characters."

Coding Horror: Exploring Wide Finder

Terrible benchmark: an trivial, embarrassingly parallel problem. Coding horror guy's right about the real value of the test. That said, the fastest Ruby implementation is slower than the slowest Python implementation. Gosh.

English too hard for students, principal says | NEWS.com.au

Teehee, Shore kids are stupid

Squirrelfish bytecode

New JS backend for Webkit has regexp and getter/setter bytecodes, making x86's BCD support look positively RISC. Now to put it in hardware... ;)

Natascha Kampusch: from darkness to limelight - Times Online

“I believe that one characteristic of being happy is that it is not a constant state. If one were constantly happy, how would one notice the difference when one is unhappy? In that sense, I can say that I am happy, among other things.”