Archive for June, 2007

math check

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

did this get cashed?

crazy

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

damn, that boy can play [the theremin]

amazing

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

rube goldberg is looking down on this video and smiling

If Fire Was Made Of Water…

Monday, June 25th, 2007

…it would look like this, duh

top 100 american films, new versus old

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

top 100 films, as decided by the American Film Institute by votes from people in the industry.

what?!?!!? swing time (90) should totally top sunrise (82)! Other than that, I agree totally with this list, and proclaim it definitive. All comments disagreeing will be deleted.

it’s a living…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

tybor recommends: The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer

Slate: Why wine writers talk that way

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

from z-dog: Check out this Seidner-esque description of a wine quoted in the Slate.com article “Cherries, Berries, Asphalt and Jam: Why Wine Writers Talk that Way”

. . . Of course, the line between incisive and overwrought can be a fine one. British wine expert Michael Broadbent once likened a wine’s bouquet to the smell of schoolgirls’ uniforms (no, he wasn’t arrested). And the late Auberon (son of Evelyn) Waugh, in his wine column for Britain’s Tatler, described one wine as smelling of “a dead chrysanthemum on the grave of a still-born West Indian baby” (no, he wasn’t fired, but he and his editor, Tina Brown, were brought before the Press Council to answer charges of insensitivity).

[Actually sounds more like z. to me. Ed.]

Presidential approval ratings

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

notice a pattern? (via Kottke)

sad times

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

mr. wizard died yesterday.

amazing high speed milk

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

High-Speed Camera Captures Milk Droplet Splashing on Coffee