To start off: popped a separate Wordpress install onto this domain that’s basically just acting like a dream log, because I have some fascinatingly weird and involved dreams. You can find it here, if you’re interested. OK Go has a fantastic music video featuring a Rube Goldberg machine, if you haven’t seen it. The journal Psychology...
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Author William Gibson commenting on his wife: She gets me out of my comfort zone. Essential, really. One of the sweetest things I’ve ever seen anyone say about a loved one. I dunno. Maybe I’m weird.
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Or more precisely, wants you to go vote for her profile here: http://www.artistswanted.org/KatieWest (the page loads somewhat slowly, but please be patient with it!). Preferably five stars, if you’re so inclined. Katie’s an incredible photographer (especially with her self-portrait work) and great writer, and all-around awesome person, and I’d appreciate it muchly. You’ll get a...
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So, New Year’s Eve (and consequently, the moon that took us into 2010) was a blue moon. According to Philip Hiscock, one of the earliest known references to blue moons connects them directly to absurdities and impossibilities. The earliest references to a blue moon are in a phrase remarkably like early references to the moon’s...
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From the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology comes a study based around the question “Why are narcissists so charming at first sight?”: First, narcissism leads to popularity at first sight. Second, the aspects of narcissism that are most maladaptive in the long run (exploitativeness/entitlement) proved to be most attractive at zero acquaintance. Third, an...
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Mind Hacks relayed some stunning graphics from the American Journal of Roentgenology, MRI images from a patient whose hairstyle was bound into a bunch of separate twists and coated in beeswax. The beeswax had iron oxide in it, which the MRI reacted to and showed this incredible flame-aura around his head. I’m gonna stare...
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Break yourself, and use your shards to cut the universe. Full size.
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Full size.
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Cross-posting this everywhere I bloody well can. The Westboro Baptist Church (the “God Hates Fags” church) is planning to protest the World Aids Day Conference at UMass. The Phelps-a-thon is accepting pledges to go to AIDS research for every minute they’re protesting, or a flat rate for the entire event. Let’s turn hate into positive...
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