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Perfect animation
Unknown Pleasures: fantastic album, fantastic graphic design work by Peter Saville. It turns out it makes for a fantastic animated GIF as well from the Imaginary Foundation. Mesmerising For those of...
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Standards
So true. It’s not unlike the situation with bugs: you solve one, and 14 new ones pop up.
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Bachmann-eyezed
Random pop culture picture + Michelle Bachmann’s eyes = comedy! Uncanny Unfortunately for comedy, the site is as defunct as Bachmann’s career. I mean, it’s not like the neocons & other assorted...
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Gallery of dull book covers
I love book covers. But there are a lot of unfortunate examples out there, particularly from academic presses. Here are some pages that collects them! Not enough philosophy covers, in my opinion
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“That’s right, Iceman. I am dangerous.” Ah, Kate Beaton, if only your success didn’t stop you from posting such fantastic comics.
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I’m sure we can put a carpet over that
This reminds me of searching for a flat to rent in Sheffield when we first moved here. It’s hard not to come up with the worst possible conclusion here Luckily, there were no body-shaped stains on the...
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It’s expected
I did much the same thing when I visited. From the glorious Winning at Everything
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Medical Illustrations
(That break was refreshing.) Over at Thought Catalog, Mark Dery interviews Kim Carsons about 19th-century medical illustrations. It’s a fascinating subject, and particularly interesting when you see...
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Ye Olde Sheffield Trams
Happy New Year! I rather enjoyed my rest—including my extended rest from blogging—and got rather a lot done. A new year sparks new resolutions, however, and one of mine is to start blogging again. To...
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Leather Jackets and Children
From The Onion: “Study Finds Owning Cool Leather Jacket More Rewarding than Raising Children” A study released Thursday by the Pacific Parenting Institute found that owning a seriously cool leather...
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This Charming Charlie
Over the Christmas break, we watched the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special from our childhoods. I loved Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip. Having watched the TV show again, though, wow! How...
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Sublimation
Over Christmas break, we had a bit of snow. Once the sun appeared, it of course started melting. Fascinatingly, the sun was burning the ice right off the trees on our street. The rising steam made it...
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Optical illusions are fascinating. It’s remarkably easy to trick your eyes into seeing something that isn’t there. This video shows what happens when you simply put M&smp;Ms on a a chessboard—your...
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Separated At Birth?
(Found on Boing Boing.) This slightly Photoshopped image of Justin Bieber; and… The Sensory Homunculus?
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Favourite Songs
Tom Waits’ “Altar Boy”, a minor classic that the artist deems an “orphan bastard”. How glorious:
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I understood this immediately, and I blame a friend of mine who, when I was an impressionable 18-year-old, demanded that we see this movie 10 times one Summer. So there’s this guy up on stage with...
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