You’re stuck with ‘em for now, I can’t be bothered.
It’s Sea Monster Week at Tetrapod Zoology.
Caenorhabditis elegans lacks eyes, yet sees, per The Other 95%.
A Neatorama trifecta, as they bring us the giant rubber energy-crisis-solving snake, the Nietzsche Family Circus, and I Met the Walrus.
But first print out this Atlantic article about what the internet is doing to our brains and go read it outside under a tree or something. Then talk about it with someone- in meatspace, using your vocal chords.
See if you can tell. I got them all right except for the Spanish tickler.
Why We’re Powerless to Resist Grazing on Endless Web Data by Lee Gomes for the Wall Street Journal. See, it’s not even our fault.
Comcast paid a bunch of shills to cheer for their guy, and to occupy seats that could may otherwise have gone to journalists or the actual public, at the FCC hearings on net neutrality. Consumerist, Save the Internet Blog (via BoingBoing), ZDNet, Portfolio dot com (via /.), Valleywag.
According to the bloggotubes, it was an ancient roman mechanical astronomical computer. It looks like this:
(wikimedia)
…and here’s a reconstruction:
(photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty, from news article)
Here’s the Guardian article, wikipedia, an informative link, and another informative link.
Ainsley’s two posters for the Darwin Day celebration at the Essig Museum today. Click the fragments for full size/full concept.
Edit 20080221: Now with emblogification.
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