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Your NPR name : insert your middle initial somewhere into your first name, then add the name of the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.Photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope silhouetted against the sun .Here’s the list of singers on the Kidney Now! episode.
Bald currency . (Everyone looks better bald!)How to pamper different types of batteries.The Beauty Of Rotting Fruit And A Taxidermied Crow .Audio recording of Marcel Duchamp talking about art . (The art stuff is via ArtFagCity , probably.)
I wanted to write something about Sometimes Goals Backfire , but then I forgot.
Cory Arcangel makes pretty things. (Gradients?)That’s right, folks, the Wolfram Alpha it are live, and the hills are dewy with things you can do with it.
Remember the list of books that are good introductions to the recommender’s fields ? Well, there’s a great alphabetical list by subject now.
Here’s a smart and sassy totebag for all you clever types .Have I linked to Scanwiches before? These make great desktop background images (use ‘center’ and set the BG color to black). Here is a little more sandwich porn, but to all my pals outside Miami, you do NOT make a Cuban sandwich in a panini press. You use a plancha (or even a skillet with an aluminum-wrapped brick for a press (make sure the brick is hot)).
Blue whales are returning to some historical hunting areas from which they were driven by whaling. So, we’ve got that going for us.
Also, I apparently do not link to this often enough: Dance Dance Immolation , brought to you by the fine people at Survival Research Labs , makers of super-neat-o toys.
I’ll send you off with a few casual covers: Radiohead v. Portishead , Of Montreal v. Gnarls Barkley , Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy v. Dolly Parton , Blue Ribbon Glee Club v. David Bowie , Antony and the Johnsons v. Gloria Gaynor , Jens Lekman v. Paul Simon , Vampire Weekend v. Fleetwood Mac .
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