Snicker

Sauce, goose, gander. Courtesy of xkcd.

Belated - Support Corrente!

Wading through my backlog of emails, I was embarrassed to find out that I totally missed Corrente's recent fund raising campaign.

Please visit Corrente and read up on all the incredible things the insightful and fearless crew over there provide on a daily basis.

Better yet, throw some spare change in the donate bin and, if your finances allow, consider subscribing.

Anglachel

Hubble Telescope Advent Calendar

Big Picture at Boston.com is doing a very fun picture show - a celestial "advent" calendar where a new Hubble telescope image is posted each day:

Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2008

I love the Hubble images and my computer at work always has some beautiful vision of the galaxy, so this is a very fun online present to unwrap, so to speak.

Keep it bookmarked on your desktop and visit every morning.

Anglachel

I Figured it Out

Can you?

Abstruse Goose presents a story in mixed up panels and asks readers to put them into order.

If you figure out the key, it's very simple, but even without it you can probably put things more or less in order.

Anglachel

The things you can do with a pumpkin

h/t to Nath.

Check out the pumpkin page at Villafane Studios run by artist Ray Villafane for more pictures of pumpkins carved like this, plus a tutorial on how to carve your own pumpkins. They run the gamut from goofy to ghoulish.

Anglachel

Here Comes the Sun

Courtesy of Big Picture at the Boston Globe, here is a collection of 21 spectacular photos of the sun:

The Sun

They are incredible. I especially like photos number 1, 7, 11, 16, 17 and 19. A link in the comments led to this page, High resolution image of solar corona, which shows the moon in full eclipse of the sun. You can see the details of the moon and the corona.

Anglachel

The Meaning of Life

I am gathering thoughts and links for posts, and came across this, an intersection of GraphJam and Indexed:

Le Grand Content

It's... odd. Yet appealing.

Anglachel

Creepy Crawly

No, I'm not talking about Dick Cheney.

Cool Flash site where you get to play with a spider. I love the entrance it makes.

Play With Spider

Anglachel

Real 'bots

Enough with politics, this site is FUN!

BotJunkie

Look for the tennis ball throwing machine and for "BigDog".

The Mysterious Rocks of Racetrack Playa

I have seen photos of this place and phenomenon before, but never so many in one place. The first time I saw one, I was sure it was photoshopped:

The Mysterious Rocks of Racetrack Playa

Anglachel

19.20.21

A site about cities - 19 cities of 20 million people in the 21st century:

19.20.21

A bit of a marketing gimmick, but not a bad one. I really like the chronology they show about how the populations fo cities has risen and fallen over the centuries.

Box Lunch

From one of my favorite food writers, a new web site:

Just Bento

Great recipies/assembly instructions for Bento box lunches that are fast and easy to make. Hmm, I migfht do a few of these for dinner...

Anglachel

It's in the Cards

All of life on a 3x5.

Indexed

Anglachel

Cool Maps of the World and US

Looking for a little relief from the smoke and heat, I came across this site:

Shaded Relief

Here you can find some incredible relief maps of the world, including a knock out focus on the US. There are also a bunch of articles and resources for cartographers who do relief maps.

Anglachel

Wild Optical Illusion

Which way is the woman turning?

I can see her spin both directions, but I mostly see her turn clockwise (i.e., right-brain), which totally shocks me, given that I think I'm better described by the left-brain function list.

Shrill and Unholy Madness

For when you need your ancient gods to lighten up:

LOLTHULHU

It will drive you insane, but in a happy sort of way.

Anglachel

Splitting the Difference

Freaking News is a great site where Photshop fanatics are asked to create wild and wonderful (and sometimes disgusting and borderline obscene - browse with caution) images that take their cues from something in the news that day. Turtles, Elvis, Osama Bin Laden, Sen. Larry Craig, airplanes - if you can think of it, they probably have a photo gallery on it.

I am utterly impressed by this one - Partial Face Transplants.

Just go look then come back and vote for your favorite.

Anglachel

Just Wow

I don't even want to try to describe what is on this site. 100% work safe and incredibly gorgeous:

Student Flotsom and Origami Jetsam

I can't even fold a letter neatly to stick into an envelope...

Anglachel

Strange Maps

I found this site from a link on Kottke.org. It collects all the strange maps you can imagine. Or never thought to.

Just check it out.

Anglachel