1) Darkseid is impressed by Thanos’s coffee.
2) 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense Of The World. James Nicoll, some of these are relevant to your interests.
4) How to build a cat fountain in Minecraft. Video. Note: that’s not a fountain for cats to drink from. No, it is not.
5) The Most Important Book on Color Theory Is Now an iPad App.
7) A printer with no paper tray. You just set it on top of a stack of paper and let it go. h/t @KeithCalder
1) A really wonderful webcomic. Seriously. Check it out. You might have to scroll down a little.
3) Whale nearly swallows divers. Video
4) Comedian hides funny/absurd messages in hotel rooms.
5) Ten coolest things you can make with a 3D printer. Yeah, it’s a slide show, but this one’s worth it.
6) Copy machine changes numbers when making copies. h/t Making Light.
7) Very interesting: Husband takes photos to convince wife that her hallucinations aren’t real, but wife sees them in photos, too. After being put on a new drug, the hallucinations mostly go away, except in those photos.
1) Weird Ways To Burn 200 Calories. Video.
2) Excaliber, the world’s tallest (121 feet) free-standing climbing wall.
3) First of all, how do the astronauts was their hair in zero G? Awesome! Second of all, female astronaut. Awesome! Last, hair care tips from the woman on board? Hmph. I hope she gets to play guitar or something next time. Video. (Still, zero g hair-washing.)
4) The terrible and wonderful reasons I run long distances, by The Oatmeal.
5) Favorite movies laid out as vintage treasure maps.
6) Ryan Gosling Won’t Eat His Cereal. This is so simple and absurd. I love it.
7) This is what happens when you try to take video of police in Sweden. Video. (h/t to James Nicoll).
2) How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You’ve Never Done Before.
3) A series of photographs showing various types of rounds cut in the cross-section. Way more interesting than it sounds.
4) Beautiful kinetic sculptures. Video.
5) An offer of free lodging always has some kind of catch to it, right? (People are weird)
6) The Ten Best Superhero RPGs ever. I’m not obsessed with them like the author of this article and I certainly haven’t played all the games on this list, but I agree with his top two.
1) Criminals brag about their crimes on social media.
2) Disruptive technology is disruptive, Hollywood movie studio edition.
3) Super slo-mo video of a crossbow bolt passing through some very shaken-up soda bottles. Video.
4) What kind of person would do this to their dog? (Ridiculous but not heart-breaking)
5) A flying bicycle you would not want anyone to own.
6) A bank heist planned as an art project, on Kickstarter.
7) Brain science explains why police often don’t believe rape victims.
1) Father photoshops infant baby into crazy, magical pictures.
2) Put sand on metal plate. Add pitch vibrations to metal plate. At certain frequencies, the sand will form beautiful geometric patterns. Video.
3) How common is your birthday?
4) The smelliest places in New York (and other cities), a chart.
5) Writing advice from John Green, in cartoon form.
6) Ten Famous Filmmakers Pick Their Favorite Overlooked Movies.
1) An innovative student project for simplifying fast food packaging. Me, I hate having to carry the cup separately from the food.
2) 7 Awesome Moments in the Greatest Police Training Video Ever via Chris Sims
3) Making a laser-cut LP out of a disc of wood.
4) The Palme d’Awful: worst films for sale at Cannes. NSFW due to a naked male butt in one of the posters. Wow, do these movies look terrible (except for FDR: AMERICAN BADASS) and every actor whose name I recognize makes me cringe with embarrassment for them. Sharknado, dude? Really? I guess it beats selling air conditioners. via @BarrSteve
5) Public spaces that appear to be private.
6) Fun fantasy chimeras created by Photoshop.
7) Social Media Fails from 19 companies. I love these.
1) Decoding the Range: The Secret Language Of Cattle Branding.
2) If you’re going to deface a textbook, this is how to do it. (Although I’m dubious about the adverb “geniously”)
3) Funny, mean reviews of Dan Brown’s Inferno.
5) Girl makes jacket out of Ziploc bags, wears sandwich and snacks where ever she goes.
6) Why Manhattan’s Green Roofs Don’t Work–and How to Fix Them
7) Theres a Question Mark Hanging Over the Apostrophes Future. (I see what you did there.)
My wife is on the steering committee for the 2013 Seattle Science Festival, which starts on June 6th. This is only the second year they’ve run one, and last year was pretty cool. I took my son to a physics demonstration at the UW (I thought I’d blogged about it but now I can’t find the link) and he loved it.
This year will be even bigger. On June 8th there’s going to be a huge expo at the Seattle Center, and from the 6th to the 11th there will be events happening all over the Puget Sound area, from presentations on becoming a game creator at the Microsoft store to
Anyway, I’ve copy and pasted a note the festival organizers have asked me to share letting folks know briefly about what’s on the schedule and how you can get involved, if you feel so moved.
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your organization to the second annual Seattle Science Festival. This year, the region’s largest celebration of science will take place June 6-16, 2013 to celebrate the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to our community’s culture and to its continued growth and prosperity. The Seattle Science Festival will consist of the following components:
These high profile events will present some of the greatest scientific and creative minds of our time and weave together science, music, art and philosophy for two inspiring, thought-provoking and engaging evenings.
How can you get involved?
Visit www.seattlesciencefestival.org to learn more about how you can get involved and I hope to see you there!
1) The annual Shorty Awards have chosen the Best Quora Answer of the Year: “What does the first day of a 5+ year prison sentence feel like?” The answers that made the list of finalists are at that link as well.
2) If Facebook made a Facebook house.
3) “Tie” Chi: knotting a Windsor as a martial arts kata.
4) Chemical-free “natural” swimming pools that are cleaned by plants. This looks a) awesome b) a lot of work and c) inappropriate for Florida. Still, it’s green and gorgeous.
5) From College Humor, Batman vs. The Penguin (played by Patton Oswalt). Video.
6) 27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012
7) Seattle’s King Street Train Station has finally received its finishing touches and is ready for a Grand Opening. And it’s gorgeous. I’m tempted to take a train trip just so I have an excuse to go down there.