The Art of Vogue Covers – Mostly rather ridiculous looking fashion art.
Binary System – fascinating
Victorian astronomy and nudity – Not what you would expect from the “prudish” Victorian era.
Clutter – My problem isn’t only that I have clutter; it’s that I have the wrong kind of clutter. Too many tools and cat toys and not enough books and fabric.
IT Knight – Ha! Sometimes those seem like good solutions.
ZomBees – What happened to all the honeybees
Rules of Thumb – That sounds right and those two guys would know.
DNA Storage – Wow. Think of the possibilities.
Book of Joe – I need to add this blog to my list. Lots of really nifty stuff there.
Spiegel 1943 – It’s funny… 40′s fashions don’t look all that dated to me. I know I’m a bit dated myself but not that dated.
Velveeta and medievalism – Interesting. Metaphors can become creepy when you learn a little history.
Strange things on Google Streetview
Melting – Lots of nifty, melty-looking things
The Ninety-Nine Draft – Weird art and poetry
August 30th, 2012 - 10:03 am
Hah, I’ve seen the Velveeta ad referenced in that “eat liquid gold” link (the one with the dude working in the mall). They actually have the audacity to claim that his life is the result of “dreaming big.” I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
August 30th, 2012 - 2:02 pm
Glad you enjoyed the Velveeta post, Lynn. I kind of hated researching it, because it’s a rather grisly thing to contemplate…
August 30th, 2012 - 10:21 pm
I had wondered if anyone caught the “eat liquid gold” velveeta thing. I had heard that such things as molten lead were used for torture. (Not sure about molten copper, with a melting point of 1984.32 F you couldn’t use much) Gold has a melting point almost as high as copper, at 1947.52 F, not to mention being awfully expensive just to torture someone. Lead has a reasonably low melting point, at 621.43 F and it would have been common enough to be used for such a terrible purpose. And if for some reason you were to survive it, you’d still have to worry about pretty bad lead poisoning. Another metal with an even lower melting point than lead would be Bismuth, but since it wasn’t really known until 1660 or so, it would have been a bit late for our hypothetical medieval torturer, who in any case would probably first use boiling water or oil instead of metal.