Hi-ho ... "Dino" ... ?

The Image You've Slogged Through the Whole Set to See
Originally uploaded by John Scalzi

John Scalzi's deliciously snark-tastic photoset of his visit to the Creationist Museum. Start out by reading his short essay about the experience, and then go on to check out the complete photoset.

[via Whatever and BoingBoing]

On the care and feeding of your nerd

A wonderful post - "The Nerd Handbook" - it's both funny and so terribly true. Finally I can point non-nerd friends and loved ones to an astute explanation of the benefits of monospaced text.

Map the things he's bad at to the things he loves. You love to travel, but your nerd would prefer to hide in his cave for hours on end chasing The High. You need to convince him of two things. First, you need to convince him that you're going to do your best to recreate his cave in his new surrounding. You're going to create a quiet, dark place here he can orient himself and figure out which way the water flushes down the toilet. Traveling internationally? Carve out three days somewhere quiet at the beginning of the trip. Traveling across the US? How about letting him chill on the bed for a half-day before you drag him out to see the Golden Gate Bridge?

[via Rands In Repose].

The trouble with the trouble with tribbles

... is deciding whether to recap it through Edward Gorey-vision, or LOL-vision. I can has both?






[Images from Live Granades and shaenon: New Smithson!]

Heroes and the iBook ad

Is this a young "Peter Petrelli" in an old iBook ad called "Middle Seat?" And if this is how the Heroes character behaves on flights, could this help explain how he wound up in that shipping container?


[via YouTube via Macenstein]

Pixilation or Metapixilation ... it's still old-school cool

The two videos below are great examples of pixilation or more precisely "meta-pixilation" as pointed out by Adam on Drawn!.

The first video below is called "Flâneur" (via YouTube), and it's important to point out that there's no digital manipulation going on, it was all done with wheatpaste.


While the first video use polaroids, the second video is called "Process Enacted" (via Drawn!), and uses manipulated polaroids as its main medium.


As with the letter-press printing, there's something very charming and warm about achieving the desired aesthetic via a substantial mechanical component.

Letter-Press Printing

A beautiful video of Massachusetts' Firefly Press demonstrating the beautiful mechanical printing they perform. It's sad to hear the proprietor talk of the craft dying out eventually. I think I'd miss it greatly.

[via YouTube]

Punched again - the SNL short revisited

I'm reposting the SNL "punched" skit, as it has apparently been removed from YouTube. Fortunately there appears to be a second copy of it.

Nothing more worthy of comic ridicule than what strikes me (no pun intended) as a very stupid fad. And this is a truly brilliant send-up. Though I felt bad for the Foo Fighters, and am pleased to hear of Jon Bon Jovi's recovery :)

[via YouTube]

UPDATE: The YouTube links keep getting taken down, so here's a link to NBC instead.