Happy Hallow's Eve

Happy halloween everybody. Get out there and try to catch some ghosts! But if you fail, don't despair, there's always plenty of candy around to cheer you up.

Lil' Drawing Seventy Seven

This is the 77th entry in the series of lil' drawings that I am continuing to post here on a random basis. Enjoy. It's called 'sodium 2.'

Drawings; Lil'

Here is the latest lil' drawing in the lil' drawing series. It's called 'ran dumb.'

Beastie Boys - Off The Grid

A video from the Beastie Boys' new all-instrumental album, The Mix-Up. Very cool...

Take That

For everyone who's ever wanted to see wizards dueling with Photoshop filters... your day has come. Just click the word 'crappiest' at the end of the latest StrongBad email.

Pretty lil' things

Once again science meets art in the realm of little bitty things; it's the Nikon Small World Photomicrography 2007 contest winners. Check out the giant unilamellar and multilamellar vesicles. Put the who in the what now?

Don't conceal your tragic flaw… give the Doctor Rock a call

Dr. Rock, by Ween, live in Chicago. This was orignally a really sludgy lo-fi song from the album The Pod, just Dean and Gene and a drum machine. Very cool to see it as a totally loud, rockin out crowd pleaser.

(Don't) Give Up The Sheep

The classic Looney Tunes cartoon.

Nano thoughts: A nitpick and a gush

Apple's third generation iPod Nano is a wonderful little music and video player. One thing bugs me. Look how the text is cut off on the 'now playing' screen:



There's really no reason that the song and album names need to be truncated like that; there's plenty of room to let the text flow to another line.

Obviously it's not a fatal flaw, just irritating.

The video playback on this device is amazing, smooth as silk and surprisingly watchable for such a small screen. In fact it's very forgiving for videos downloaded from YouTube — it helps hide the artifacts of low resolution encoding. (Hint to Mac users: step 1, step 2.)



It happies me.

Short Movie: Evil Bee

It's nice to see high quality computer animation like this that isn't packed full of saccharine, like movies from Pixar or Dreamworks. No nutrasweet here, just thick globs of regurgitated honey. It's Evil Bee, by PF Flyers.

Art... In... Spaaaaace!

Here's another beautiful image. It's a Hubble view of the Great Nebula in Carina. 6500 - 10000 light years from Earth, this composite image is 50 light years across and contains at least a dozen stars that are 50 to 100 times the size of our sun.

More info at Wikipedia, of course.

Grey Abstraction

Here's a great abstract artwork.... mostly pufferfish and coffee beans. OK, actually it's a high resolution scan of pollen.

Evolution 101

Evolution 101, a very short comic covering a very long time period.

From Mr. Oblivious.