December 2009
56 posts
Photos from a leech farm →
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Does Philanthrophy Need a Marketing Makeover? →
In this article, Nicholas Kristof talks about what makes people more willing to donate money for charitable causes.
http://www.fwdder.com/static/swf/video-player.swf?t... →
Video of elephant giving birth
Amazingly fast 0_o
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/12/body-... →
On the Reproductive System of the Duck →
Warning: Videos here are NOT LIFE SAFE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexithymia →
P was describing this condition to me.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/agpfh/i_ident... →
When I read this, I was all like “hey, this is just like a Setona Mizushiro manga.”
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2008/03/gorilla-p... →
short blog post on artist’s experience sketching primates
For future reference
ಠ_ಠ the famed look of disapproval
﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿ O’RLY?
๏_๏
☉_☉
reading people's faces →
Review of book on how pro criminals advertise their profession on their bodies.
Hmm, almost time for the new year. It seems that now my blogging is divided into three parts:
ephermeralia: here and Twitter
social media blogging: Dreamwidth
fandom: wp blog, and a bit of LJ, although nowadays I don’t use LJ, basically
I seem to be moving into a new stage w/r/t blogging, anyhow.
Search flickr pictures by color combo →
Very neat.
Mike, the headless chicken →
In my infinite mercy, I have decided to post this as a link rather than as a photo
knitting for psychos →
Aoi Hana
Was talking to P about portrayals of f/f relationships in anime and manga, and she noted that they always seemed to be portrayed as tragic or dramatic or doomed (especially in an aristocratic, decadent manner), a la Oniisama E. So I mentioned to her that Aoi Hana was said to be a yuri manga which didn’t go in the super melodramatics direction, so we decided to check it out.
Aoi Hana...
Teddy and TJ →
Good lord, these two are the most adorable pomeranians in the universe. Must say that cut looks better on them than the usual pomeranian cut. With their hair clipped like that, they look like two little teddy bears.
Zdzislaw Beksinski's art →
Always an inspiration.
Notice I didn’t say “to what”
flavors.me →
Interesting: this site is kind of like making your own online “calling card” in a way (almost said ‘business card’ but it seems more like that would be LinkedIn)
“For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle...”
– Jeff Bezos (via marco)
Astounding. Can this really be true? It seems like there are so few people who have Kindles out there. Maybe the amount of book buyers in this country really is that small or something.
Interesting new research on the nature of... →
Gets sort of abstruse at parts. I wonder why more sci fi doesn’t deal with neuroscience.