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Honestly. She’s just adorable.

Cut from an IRC chat …

[nm]: cvottons not grown … is it?!? I thought they sheered sheep for it • Pixielo shakes her head [nm]: :o Pixielo: [nm] Wool comes from sheep, cotton comes from a plant…. Pixielo: That’s just sad. [nm]: thats gotta be 1 trippy looking plant • [nm] is off to google [nm]: WOW [nm]: [...]

Don’t you just love completely pointless knowledge? [found via fscklog]

Informatiker der Universität des Saarlandes haben unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Michael Backes gezeigt, wie leicht sich die Daten eines PC-Benutzers dank Reflexionen des Bildschirminhaltes etwa in Brillengläsern, Kaffeetassen oder Teekannen entwenden lassen. […]

Die auf den gekrümmten Oberflächen verzerrten Spiegelbilder erfasste man mit einem Teleskop, fotografierte und entzerrte sie. Besonders gute Ergebnisse bekam man bei [...]

… I just love how John Barrowman almost keels over laughing.

The Gomboc is a roundish piece of clear synthetic material with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself.

It leans off to one side, rocks to and fro as if gathering strength and then, presto, tips itself back into [...]

I recently started a culture jamming (Operation Mindfuck for Discordians) campaign that involves recontextualizing ads and signs — or anything that makes a dubious claim — using stickers with the [citation needed] tag found in Wikipedia articles. This blog post describes the project and has the first few pictures.

A brilliant idea found via Boing Boing.

Oh, look, it’s my day! Finally …

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So, I haven’t been the only one to come up with this intriguing idea …

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