Wednesday the First of February, 2012

The Goon Who Saved 'Manos'!
"A common refrain I've heard is that without Joel and the Bots, the movie is 'unwatchable,' but I suspect a big part of that is the bad visual presentation that the movie has always had. [...] Though it's doubtful I will change anyone's mind about Manos, I would like to send a message that every film, regardless of the place it holds in movie history, deserves a fair shot to be maintained and presented in the best way possible." (filed under: films history) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: BBC Newsbeat and use of dodgy statistics - szlwzl's posterousGiorgio loves Sonic. - YouTubeBlue balls mystery close to being solved | UK news | The GuardianGold Rush Alaska Supercut (Season 2 Recap) - YouTubeLondons Oddest Shop Names: A Few Additions | LondonistDavid Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve | Video on TED.comCurious dice | plus.maths.org
"Annoyed to realise that painkiller advertising can lessen the placebo effect of rival brands." 2 days ago on Twitter
Recently listened to:
On Some Faraway Beach Brian Eno
Refrigerator Patrick Duff
This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (live) Talking Heads
Bad Losers on Yahoo Chess Half Man Half Biscuit
I Am Catweazle Luke Haines
Don't Be Afraid Salako
Ordinary to Enschede Half Man Half Biscuit
Reno Dakota The Magnetic Fields
Let Me Tell You Something The Durutti Column
Giant David Devant & His Spirit Wife

Tuesday the Thirty-First of January

How Far Can You Walk From Trafalgar Square Without Crossing A Road? | Londonist
"A couple of years ago, as a test of the walkability of London, I set out from Trafalgar Square — the official centre of the town — one Sunday morning to see how far I could get without crossing a road or going over the same place twice. It was almost 17 miles before I ended up going round in a circle." (filed under: walking london)

Throw Things at FOUND | Flickr - Photo Sharing!IMG_0775 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!White | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: PulseSensor - Pulse Sensor [5 Volt]Bookshelf Porn, Slanted Bookshelf in the library of PROGRAMs...Ronald Searle Pop Up Exhibition At Science Museum - ArtLystLondon | Get Ahead of the Games1,000 reasons we Instagrammers Now. Here. This. Time Out LondonBellbot - Play a sound when you have new usersFresh Impressions on Brandmarks (from my 5-year-old) - YouTubeMURK AVENUE, I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'Janet Howell, Virginia State Senator, Attaches Rectal Exam Amendment To Anti-Abortion BillCage Match : Daily MTG : Magic: The GatheringA Basic Mistake That Trashed a JSTARS | Defense TechThe Front LineYosemite Firefall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMike Oldfield - Sailor's Hornpipe Full Version - YouTube

Monday the Thirtieth

Pirate Bay Hosts Physical Objects - And Is Accused Of Infringing Games Workshop Copyright?
"The model, an official version of which costs £28 from Games Workshop, has been previously listed on a 3D printing community website, but the plans were reportedly pulled after a takedown notice was issued." (filed under: plastic crime future)
Beware of Malicious QR Codes | PCWorld
"Cyber criminals have taken advantage of the proliferation of quick response (QR) codes on posters and marketing material by putting their own malicious stickers over the top of legitimate ones." I did wonder how long this would take. (filed under: barcodes crime lies) (via: zarba)

LES | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Blurry picture of a fox | Flickr - Photo Sharing!War Elephant | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Mick Mountz: The hidden world of box-packing | Video on TED.comAll our Web casts - royalsociety.tv | Royal SocietyR.Science podcast | Royal SocietyWhat Am I Doing Here? | Athene Donald's BlogBBC News - The world's biggest cities: How do you measure them?British news outlets fabricated quotes to support anti-gaming story [UPDATED] << BeefJack - The Gamer's SauceIslamic science has come to this pitiful end | PharyngulaCity braced for rubbish news - Citywire Money

Friday the Twenty-Seventh

Statistics and Scrabble, Together At Last - A.C. Thomas, Scientist
"One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty." (filed under: games scrabble maths) (via: mattgreen)

This And That | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Like treacle off a spoon | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Twitter able to censor tweets in individual countries | Technology | guardian.co.ukDont Be That Guy ad campaign cuts Vancouver sex assaults by 10 per cent in 2011 - The Globe and MailLargest Container Ship In The World - YouTubeYarnstormed bike in Adelaide on TwitpicWhy did Psychic Sally lose her powers in September 2011? - slsingh's posterousGoogle's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil"Kermode & Mayo's Photo | LockerzTerminator vs Robocop vs Predator - YouTubeLetters of Note: To the next BurglarDavid McKie: Why I ate the Haitch mob | Comment is free | The GuardianPac-Man Proved NP-Hard By Computational Complexity Theory - Technology ReviewMichael Rosen: The Politics (and lies) of the ApostropheTwitter / @SkyrimMom: "Before every quest I chan ...

Thursday the Twenty-Sixth

TrackMeNot
"TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines. [...] It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles." (filed under: web surveillance illusions) (via: zarba)

Nepenthe | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Riverside Plane | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Youtube.com/SoufTuts - ImgurAh, that's where that is on TwitpicTiny Tower Rips Off a Flash Game—and SimTowerCopyright Monopoly Goes Insane: Non-Copy Judged As Infringing - Falkvinge on InfopolicyNicholas Hawksmoor: Architect of the Imagination - The Architecture Space - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of ArtsTV psychic Sally Morgan sues Daily Mail for defamation - Press GazetteScientists urge unis to axe alternative medicine coursesMail Online goes top of the world | Media | guardian.co.ukHTML5 Please - Use the new and shiny responsiblyDorkly Bits: Mario is Too Mainstream - Dorkly Videonotes.husk.org. The bath at theLes Cols pavilion, in Olot, Spain.....Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not To Elect Newt Gingrich | The Onion - America's Finest News SourceGettysburg: Armored Warfare Cinemotions | Rock, Paper, Shotgun...::: FRIZION :::...Gallery - Frizions: Making art from ice and polarised light - Image 1 - New ScientistBehavior of Light in MineralsNYPL Labs : StereogranimatorDesign Perfectionists at Home - NYTimes.comJgKda.jpg (JPEG Image, 5471711 pixels)

Tuesday the Twenty-Fourth

The New French Hacker-Artist Underground | Magazine
"There is no law in France, it turns out, against the improvement of clocks." (filed under: secrets time paris hacking art) (via: mugla)

Glanced at: BKIxW.jpg (JPEG Image, 800533 pixels)London Designer Has A New Take On Cycle Wayfinding | Londonist'Don't be evil' code exposes Google's Plus bias | ZDNet UKBBC News - Soloist Lukas Kmit hits right note on phone intrusionMindsets online - Mini Light Datalogger (Data logger) - Mini DataloggersShauna Myers - Google+ - Why was MegaUpload really shut down? In December of 2011,Level With Me | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Making January HAPPENThis Is My Jam - The Future Of Music Sharing Online? - NME Blogs - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to winCanadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program | Naked SecurityPublic library turkey | ksdk.com

Saturday the Fourteenth

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 on Vimeo
"search by image, recursively. starting with a transparent png (400×225px). 2951 images, 12fps." (filed under: videos images web) (via: waxy)
Ronald Searle | The Economist
"Ronald Searle, artist, limner of St Trinian’s and St Custard’s, died on December 30th, aged 91. Nigel Molesworth of St Custard’s writes." (filed under: art death)

Glanced at: A trailer for the new Wes Anderson movie, mirrored down the centrePaleofuture - Paleofuture Blog - Your Own Wireless Telephone(1910)Caisson lock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLetters From Schwarzville: Circle Rules Football and CitydashCaptain arrested amid growing anger after Italian cruise ship runs aground | World news | The ObserverThe Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.comrollsquarepaint.gif (GIF Image, 320320 pixels)

Friday the Thirteenth

Return of the super ants : Nature News & Comment
"By dabbing larvae with methoprene, a chemical that mimics juvenile hormone, Abouheif and his team could induce supersoldiers in species that normally lack them." (filed under: ants genetics evolution war) (via: ole)

_DSC5743 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Samuel Hahnemann Monument | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: BBC News - In pictures: Metropolis II sculpture by Chris BurdenIt's Official: Stonehenge Stones Were Moved 160 Milesnotes.husk.org. Q. This is the much-talked-about photo, on Page....Why People Get the Wrong Number in Polls - The Numbers Guy - WSJGoogle, what were you thinking? Mocality KenyaIllegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaComputerised Board Games in QbasicLoper OS >> Why Hypercard Had to DieDNA/Frank The VandalWhy Can't We Put a BASIC On the Phone? - SlashdotThe Thing | Board Game | BoardGameGeekInfovore >> Raymond Chandler on the value of copyingImagine Publishings Competition To Get Unpaid Writers - BothererBy popular request, the automated numbering stamp:How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New YorkerLittle People - a tiny street art project: Dead LeavesBBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog - Should journalists want Google to get personal?Twitter / @simontreanor: I win on the spam-follower ...BBC News - Mitt Romney lambasted in attack ad for speaking FrenchWhy is Homeopathy Successful? | The QuackometerTwitter / @SkyrimMom: When my mom made this spoo ...Skyrim Mom (skyrimmom) on TwitterBoardGameDadaistGlobal Warming May Trigger Winter Cooling - ScienceNOW

Thursday the Twelfth

Language Log >> The unbearable loss of words
"Since aphasics often produce nonsense words without realizing that they aren't real words, one of the goals of therapy is to give the patient feedback on which words are real. But West would often produce bona fide words that were unknown to the therapist." (filed under: language pestilence) (via: newsmary)
Parahawking | Frequently Asked Questions
"Parahawking is a fusion between Falconry and Paragliding. [Our] birds of prey are trained to fly with Paragliders and to guide them to the thermals." (filed under: birds sport) (via: mugla)

Glanced at: Tim Harford Article To tweet or not to tweet? - Seth's Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer - motesinajar | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Shop Window | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Blackwell Legacy - Twitter / @jamiecraven: Someone's probably getting ... - Caution: High Speed Balls Tom Scott - SEO is dead. Again. - Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas - Core77 - IndieGames.com - The Weblog Preview: Storyteller (Daniel Benmergui) - FlirtOff - SCRAPPBLE!!!!!!! - MST3K Shorts - Century 21 Calling - Mark Lancaster MP and his terrifying drug scare: the UK imports 200kg of khat per person per week. Bullshit. - bengoldacre - secondary blog - It's not really that blue... | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Look! Food Flags For The Sydney International Food Festival | The Kitchn - Spooling | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Green Dragon Activities >> Blog Archive >> 2012/01 MTB Chariot Race 14th January -
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