Instant Expert: Human Evolution
This awesome article, with copious hyperlinks, will make you an instant expert on Human Evolution.
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This awesome article, with copious hyperlinks, will make you an instant expert on Human Evolution.
For Pam and Sabino and Marcela: research into language acquisition in children, particularly in bilingual children. Fascinating science!
The Radius 320, a 4800x1200 flat-panel monitor. Lovely. [thanks, Dave!]
Pride and Prejudice re-enacted with dolls is very funny, if you're a P&P fan.
Local costs of the Iraq War [via Dave]
The eggcorn database [via lisa]
8-bit opera [via scrubbles]
Joel Stein says what I've been saying for years: Elmo is evil. I hate that little red rag. [via scrubbles]
Web-hosting's dirty laundry You know those sites with "unbiased" reviews of webhosts? Surprise: they're simply large advertising venues.
Americans don't believe in evolution (but it makes no difference, really, in my opinion — evolution occurs whether we believe in it or not)
I'm back from San Francisco, which means more flotch for you. You've probably seen most of these already, though...
Goggles, the Google Maps flight-sim, is pretty darn nifty
These Star Trek inspirational posters are all the rage on the net, and with good reason. They're funny! [via rich]
Skyacht, the world's first practical personal blimp. Buy one for me, won't you? [via Dave, of course]
This is amazing: the time fountain.
Most of you know that Cold Mountain is my favorite book. (Well, after Proust, of course.) Charles Frazier's second novel, Thirteen Moons, will be released in a few weeks. The first review calls it one of the great American books. I cannot wait. I cannot wait.
This is awesome. Hating America isn't really about hating America, but about the cultural adaptations one makes after spending a long time in a third-world country and then returning to the U.S. Why is it that everyone who comes back finds the U.S. more foreign than the country they're returning from? Excellent reading.
The biology of B-movie monsters is great fun and it's science.
In the company of Zen, a conversation with Robert Pirsig
The Book of Current Superstitions (from 1896)
For Kris: Jitterbug — a deleted scene from The Wizard of Oz
Very handy - for me, anyhow: Cricket Explained (an American viewpoint)
Van Gogh's Starry Night. From LEGO.
The customer is NOT always right — I've been saying this for years, though not in the context that is discussed here (that employee morale is more important than customer morale)
Funny! Friends list — social networks and hyper-links revenge c. 2006 (I didn't know that Gina, who is one of the editors at lifehacker, had a blog...)
Frykitty points to a trailer for The Prestige, a film that looks quite good (and perhaps a little Jonathan Strange-esque?)
There's hope for me yet! Scientists take step toward obesity vaccine — "A vaccine that slows down a key hunger hormone kept rats from gaining weight, even when they over ate, U.S. researchers reported on Monday." [via Dave]