August 2010
13 posts
Pareidolia →
readmorewikipedia:
Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse.
submitted by why-everything-is-beautiful
July 2010
21 posts
Everything-ism →
bobulate:
David Sedaris uses, not a real stove but, a stove metaphor to talk about work-life balance:
One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work. The gist … was that in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two.
James Franco seems to defy...
Bobulate: Proposals for busy people →
The butcher block was central for family communication. This wooden slab in the kitchen was the primary transmission device, long before mobile phones and email. “Options for dinner: A) BBQ on the patio, 6 p.m. B) chicken in the kitchen, 6 p.m. C) Nina’s pizza, 8 p.m.,” a note would read, and…
Coyote Tracks: The Emperor's New Antenna →
marco:
Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no clothes. And ultimately this is what’s so infuriating about Apple: that’s...
The Lake Wobegon Effect →
bobulate:
Experiments into human behavior use games and simplified decision situations to identify patterns of behavior that are likely to mirror real-life decision-making, or at least fictional life in Minnesota:
[M]ost drivers in repeated studies rate their skills as better than average (sometimes referred to as the “Lake Woebegone Effect,” [sic] after radio personality Garrison Keillor’s...
venomous porridge: A conversation I have every... →
Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone) Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off. Me: I just want to know how late you’re open. Website: Nope. Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something? Website: I’m ignoring…
“The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead...”
– Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style (via viafrank)
“But I remember Drew saying something really interesting in London. I asked him...”
– Nick Zammuto of the Books is writing about the new album track-by-track. Pick up the new album, The Way Out, (★★★★★) and follow along on Tumblr. Favorite bit:
There are also a few shaving cream sounds and a sliding glass door in there. And a toy that I found for Sepp that consists of an aluminum...
Marco Arment Took It Up A Notch
marco:
Know why the iPhone 4’s antenna grip got tons of attention but there aren’t stories about the same sorts of minor flaws on other phones?
Because if there’s a minor flaw with whichever Droid Xtreme Edition or HTC Whatever is being hyped by the gadget blogs this month, who cares?
Lost Cosmonauts →
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The Lost Cosmonauts, or Phantom Cosmonauts, are cosmonauts who allegedly entered outer space, but whose existence has never been acknowledged by either the Soviet or Russian space authorities.
Alexey Belokonev is reportedly one of three (two men and a woman) cosmonauts aboard a November, 1962 flight. The Torre Bert tower in Italy allegedly picked up a frantic set of messages...
Poon Lim →
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Poon Lim or Lim Poon BEM (March 8, 1918 – January 4, 1991) was a Chinese sailor who survived 133 days alone in the South Atlantic.
When told no one had ever survived longer on a raft at sea, Poon Lim replied, “”I hope no one will ever have to break that record.” People have lived longer lost at sea, the current record being ten months for three Mexican sailors in a...
Inception Trailer Music - Mind Heist by Newcomer...
Who is this kid? More plz.
“Among all of Apple’s iPhone marketing efforts, these [FaceTime] commercials in...”
– http://www.subtraction.com/2010/07/13/facetime-means-crying-time