Jackson Fusion! Woohoo!

*snerk*

Via Pundit Kitchen

LOLeducation

An educational graphic on the history of lolcat. For the good people at online schools (scroll past the ads that take up the entire top of the page).

Real Men Don't Like Killer Commie Squirrels

I am not sure what the message is I am supposed to be getting [here].

And really ... can be?

Support the Little Guys

If you are going to license music, which is not a bad idea if you are using it for projects, support the little guys at Friendly Music. After all, you're probably a small indie yourself, otherwise your lawyers and publicity agents would be dealing with all this for you.

Wake Up and Smell the Lard

Weight.

Water.

Follow Up

The music in the video in my previous post is by ChouChou, a Second Life band devoted to exploring new frontiers of creating music.

That is awesome. Especially since they seem to be part of a movement. Check out the in-world music store where you can buy real MP3s and AIFFs. It even comes with music previews.

You can get ChouChou's songs on iTunes (though if you buy them through Second Life then Apple can't take most of the money on the sale), and check out their "live" concert images.

The story that disappeared on the earth.

Some truly awesome machinima.

Stop-motion Lego documentary about early microbiologists

via boingboing

The Internet is Over

Yep, the Internet is over. It has nothing left to document. Now go read a book or something. I hear it's good for you.

Terrible Gallery Signals End of Internet via the Awl.

Gnome Defenders

Just in case you thought there were all red point hats and cuteness.

Ninja Gnomes, available at Design Toscano.

via Foolish Gadgets << Nerd Approved.

Distributed Faces

Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network.

The open source alternative brought to you by a group of enterprising college kids.

Powered by Tesla

A blade-free Tesla wind turbine, coming soon to an ecologically friendly location near you.

Volcanic Activity

A very handy little chart via Information is Beautiful.

Awesome Toonage ... on Balloon

Balloon Bass

via boingboing

Record Player

An interesting promo package from an interesting company.

Image via treehugger.

Idea via GGRP Sound.

Awesome Re-Use

Some awesome re-use via SwissMiss.

But it could never happen now ...

Steven Weber assures us this could never happen now ... it is too 19th century.

Ooh! I know! Perhaps the Republicans are playing into some master plan wherein all power is gradually, systematically leeched from the masses and centralized into a snug, capitalistic, corporate version of an aristocracy, keeping The People perpetually strained but entertained by shiny yet easily broken/disposable/replaceable baubles and only minimally involved in the basic running of the country so as to provide the citizenry with an illusion of democratic participation and therefore allowing them to distinguish their lives from that of common, old fashioned serfs.

Read the full-article on the Huffington Post.

Word of the Day

Antiestablishmentdysentarianism
an·ti·es·tab·lish·ment·dys·en·tar·i·an·ism
[an-tee-uh-stab-lish-muhnt-dis-un-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm]
(noun)
1.) Vacuous anti-establishment fear mongering.
2.) What passes for anti-federalist rhetoric these days.

Nerd!

Okay, sort of had to find out because of this handy little diagram.

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Excitement! Drama! Women being good at math!

Historic videos!

Historic Comics!

Historic T-Shirts!

Okay, seriously, a computer used to be a female profession, not a machine. There have been some wonderful histories of computing discussing the images of early computers showing men in uniforms in front of computers who were really the office managers and didn't have a clue as to how the things actually worked. The women were shooed out of the room, or cropped out of the picture because the military thought it would hurt their credibility if computers weren't properly butch. The above linked PDF has one such example. The rise of automated computing removed a significant career path in mathematics from the hands of women and put its tasks in the hands of their (male) managers. And when programming shifted from being the work of mathematicians to the work of engineers, women were not brought along for the ride.

Interesting side note: In the mid-1980s, computer programming was considered a joke degree that you only took because you didn't have what it took to be an engineer. I always wondered how many of those first generation of college-trained programmers were laughing all the way to the bank.

Oh, and links mostly pillaged from boingboing.

Evoking Collaboration

An online game about tackling real problems in the real world collaboratively ... Evoke.

What an awesome concept.

via TreeHugger.

Flow

New animations from CCP, makers of EVE Online, make their new Incarna look very promising.

Not to be greedy or anything, but I want a way to do this in Second Life.

via Massively.

A Wonderful Flavour of Reality

Virtual

Have to say that I kind of find this a little creepy.