Randomness for 4/8

1) Homemade “Romance Pants”. Has to be seen to be believed.

2) Ten of the Most Beautiful Libraries Ever Built (in Minecraft).

3) The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics. I dunno how I feel about the title but the article is cool.

4) “Are you a ‘Single Interested in Michael Crichton?’ Meet the love raptors stalking OkCupid.”

5) 15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes that will Kill Your Children. Via James Nicoll

6) An anti-drone hoodie designed to hide your thermal signature from above.

7) Plewds, Hites, and Indotherms: Terms for the graphic language of cartooning. I’d heard of grawlixes before, but the others were names for things I didn’t even know had names. Very cool.

Randomness for 3/23

1) This Lego machine makes and launches paper airplanes. Video.

2) The future of hi-rise demolition comes from Japan.

3) Legobombing and the art of infrastructure.

4) How funny are you? A chart.

5) Pictures we didn’t take before digital cameras.

6) Close up photos of elements from the periodic table.

7) Class project: designing costumes for a film adaptation of The Lies of Locke Lamora

Randomness for 3/5

1) The 18 officially-sanctioned hair styles of North Korea.

2) “Dead giraffe. Bars of silver. Robot hand.” Thinks found underwater in New York.

3) al-Qaeda’s 22 Tips for Avoiding a Drone Attack.

4) Lego Hogwarts. Hundreds of thousands of pieces. Months to build.

5) The Urbee 2: a 3d printed car.

6) A really excellent book cover.

7) Gender inequality in publishing: Some actual numbers. via @jodipicoult

Randomness for 2/22

1) How a web designer got revenge on a company that wouldn’t pay its bills.

2) Okc_ebooks: Pick-up artists trying to chat up a robot horse.

3) Finding optimal marriage pairings using the assignment problem.

4) Forbes posts an infographic showing the effects of vaccines on morbidity.

5) “Invisible Man” artist has himself painted to camouflage himself into his environment.

6) The Venn Piagram

7) You, too, can become a robot!

Randomness for 2/12

1) The Galactic Empire responds to the White House refusal to build a Death Star.

2) Goodreads review in 2250 of a historical novel set in the present time: “Most of the details were correct, but the author forgot that, in the early 21st century, people had to wear special clothes in the rain because their clothes were not yet water- mud- and oil-proof.” Video.

3) An index to fantasy maps. Would it be ungrateful of me to suggest that this seems thin?

4) Walter Cronkite describes the space age kitchen of the far-distant future of 2001. Video included but no auto-play.

5) A chart to demonstrate that fantasy series get longer with each book.

6) “Game of Thrones” Valentines

7) OH MY DAYUM. Video. Normally I’m not big on autotuning normal dialog but this is brilliant.