A Virtual Funhouse

Gaddafi has lost it ... - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

2011-02-24T08:58:00.000-08:00

Gaddafi has lost it ... - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Stupid Human Tricks:

2009-02-07T17:02:00.000-08:00

"It's all about promoting awareness of alligator conservation..." Sure it is, Bud.

The Essential Collection

2009-02-06T18:13:00.000-08:00

Say Hello to Einstein

2009-02-05T00:23:00.000-08:00

The Evolution Revolution

2009-02-02T23:15:00.000-08:00

http://ovablastic.blogspot.com/2009/01/susan-savage-rumbaugh-apes-that-write.html

Keep on Truckin'

2009-01-21T21:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/weird/Trucking_Duck_All__National_.html

The Victorian Sideshow

2009-01-17T22:27:00.000-08:00

From the very creative people at il mondo del Fubbs (and without further explanation), I give you
the Victorian Sideshow. It's interactive, fascinating and refreshingly bizarre in a Monty Python kind of way.

Your amusement begins here: http://www.fubbs.net/

The human brain: still working out the kinks

2009-01-16T18:40:00.000-08:00

The brain is among the body's more intimidating pieces of anatomy, but a child psychiatrist has made it warm and fuzzy — by knitting a copy.

The full article is here: http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=abby-normal-nope-psychiatrist-knits-2009-01-16

To the person who had this inspiration: Thank you!

2009-01-14T21:56:00.000-08:00

http://www.cubworld.com/category/a_cubworld_cam

The New World (dis)Order

2009-01-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

But last week in Paris, Mr. Sarkozy and the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair hosted a conference of political leaders and Nobel Prize-winning economists to find ways to instill moral values into the global economy. The old financial order had been “perverted” by “amoral” and uncontrolled capitalism, Mr. Sarkozy said, deploring the fact that, “the signs of wealth count more than wealth itself [a concept known as simulacrum].”

The full article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/fashion/15paris.html

A more urgent tone is taken here: http://www.minyanville.com/articles/consumers-farmers-labor-depression-politicians-crisis/index/a/20692/from/yahoo

An expanded discussion of simulacrum is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum

World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska

2009-01-14T00:29:00.000-08:00

The 2009 World Ice Art Championships are quickly approaching (just ask Al Gore).
Until then enjoy the chill and chiseling of a previous year (2007).

http://www.icealaska.com/phototours/07PhotoTours/walks/walk02.html

http://www.icealaska.com/index.html

Laugh and (sometimes) the world laughs with you...

2009-01-13T09:03:00.000-08:00

A new art installation going on display at the European Council building in Brussels has angered EU members with its lampoons of national stereotypes. "We knew the truth would come out," said Mr Cerny [the artist]. "But before that we wanted to find out if Europe is able to laugh at itself."

A slideshow of the sideshow is in the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7827738.stm