http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFMIYz0TZ-U ...due, I can only assume, to the strict "Beards Only" policy at the Banhart Compound.
Category: What I’m Looking At
Things I find and squirrel away.
Clockwork Insects
Good gravy, these are neat. Insects rendered as automata.
Free Bill Stickers
This has been making the rounds the last couple days. It appears that
everything old is new again.
Matt Stuart: Design or Luck?
Matt Stuart proves that excellent design is indistinguishable from perfect luck.
Copyright Creates a Nation of Criminals
John Tehranian calculates his total copyright violation liability: $12.5 million a day.
What better way could there be to create a nation of constant lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own laws? And what better way to instill contempt than to hand out rights so broad that most Americans simply find them absurd?[Ars Technica]
Ethiopian Codex as Comix
These seem childish or primitive, and then seem ironic and modern, like something from R. Crumb.
[via Bibliodyssey]
IKEA catalogue, averaged
Moebius Transformations, Explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness at University of Minnesota provide an explanation for Moebius transformations that is elegant and clear, with the rare but crucial "ah-ha" moment. I get it.
Taliban Portrait Sittings
A really interesting photoessay and examination of the surprisingly effeminate culture of southern Afghanistan and the unsurprising results when Taliban soldiers sit for photos.
[Thomas Dworzak via Andrew Sullivan]
Update on the state of public discourse
a technology job is no excuse 