Does your iPad have wings?

Wings!

Terror for the Hearing Impaired

Yes,the zombie song, Re: Your Brains, is now available with ZSL (Zombie Sign Language).

Remember! The undead are equal opportunity destro- ermm... employers. Well, okay, except for those snooty, perfectly coiffed, perfectly emo, unholier-than-thou vampires. Ever notice how they never go after ugly people? Elitist bloodsuckers.

QiQi Studios

QiQi Studios is a truly awesome Second Life machinima studio out of China. The art work, the production values, and the ideas are all simply awesome.

See their work, be impressed.

You can also find them in Second Life in China and China West sims.

Want!

The bookbook!

Promotion

Just in case you have any doubts that cats aren't slowly taking over the world, step by step ... cat gets promotion.

Broadacre City is One Step Closer

NASA Unveils All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle

I think I liked Wright's ornithopters better. Well, it will redefine the problems with drunk driving if nothing else.

And when you need to recharge it in the middle of nowhere because you forgot to stop at the station: Eolic: A Foldable, Portable Wind Turbine

Flintstones

Yeah, yeah, looks like a bad Photoshop job, but is a real place.

Details via TreeHugger.

Publish or Perish

Being a book reviewer is beginning to convince me that the publishing industry might be a better place if more academics picked the perish option instead. Can one get tenure for picking the perish option? Maybe schools should give it some thought. Especially those with publishing units.

Think of it as akin to the government paying farmers to leave fields fallow to help prop up the value of agricultural produce. Rewarding faculty for not publishing (just teaching) in order to prop up the value of academic produce, or at least that portion of it that is in print. Particularly because academic produce has a very long shelf life and people are really still working on digesting products that were marketed a century or more ago.

If we don't take such a drastic action, are we at risk of a knowledge bubble collapse? We may already be approaching that point. Certainly, people are throwing new academic produce out there faster than it can be digested by anyone, thus limiting it to smaller and smaller targeted markets. The problem with targeting these small markets is that academic produce, as with all produce, is unhealthy if one consumes too much of one type, instead of consuming a balanced diet of knowledge. This means that the glut of specialized knowledge contributes less and less to the overall health of the knowledge economy and its consumers.

Language Lessons

The true international language of the world!

Well ... you'll just have to click it to find out.

Space, Time, and Archeology

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project

The Third & The Seventh

Some flat out awesome architectural CGI via boingboing, including "making of" videos on Vimeo.

Obsessive Diagnosis Disorder

Is the compulsion to diagnose things other than the statistical mean as aberrant a psychiatric disorder?

You will become mentally ill in 2013 via boingboing.

The Americanization of Mental Illness from the New York Times.

Allow me to communicate at you with my languaging skills

Found on the InterWeb:

"Anyone else who texts me first is at their own risk that I don't really care about what they have to say. If I did, I would have texted them first."

It is to laugh,
It is to cry,
It is to scream and wonder why.

Want!

from schultzeworks via dezeen

via TokyoMango

Fairy Mishmash!

Or something like that.

JP Nataf: Come Tell Me

Some awesome cute via boingboing

The TV Show

via laughing squid

The Best Toys

Wait, since when do environmental activists get to have the best toys?

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Symphony of Science

Science is often a beautiful thing, and sometimes art its own right, but usually not like this ... The Symphony of Science.

Cheese or Font?

Too much time on your hands? Cringe at the sight of Papyrus? Then here is just the thing for you: cheese or font? Perhaps you will then forgive the occasional Papyrus.

L'il Cthulhu

Unreal

Some awesome artwork from the Netherlands. Yes, that really is all just tricks of the light.

via Good Magazine.

Afganisu-tan

War made cute. And oddly enough, it still contains more meaningful information than the evening news on the topic.

Why Insurance Companies are Just Plain Dumb

$300 for a portable device that people might find alternate uses for versus $8000 for a stripped-down, custom-built, big-box PC with all the software removed ... you do the math. Now guess which one is the one the insurance companies are willing to provide to those who need them.

Insurers Fight Speech-Impairment Remedy

Apparently people with serious speech impairments only need to communicate when at home, because, you know, they might get discriminated against if they set foot outside the house or something.