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I’m not sure that I get David Gaddis’ comic Piercing. There aren’t any words, but the images are so remarkably expressive, you don’t miss much. It starts out georgious and then takes a turn for the bizarre. I’d love to see more without the strange twist, but I’ll take whatever I can get. Truly beautiful.

I think I may have pulled out a few stitches* (recent experiment in dental torture) laughing at this clip of Ali G interviewing Posh Spice and some Soccer Player. Curse you Milk and Cookies!

*No mom, I’m almost certain I didn’t actually rip out any stitches. You can put down the phone or stop composing the worried e-mail now.

I was just talking about some of the stupid stuff we did as kids with fireworks and bb guns. We never got this insane (WMV Movie of guy acting as human target for roman candles). It’s nice to see that shows like Jackass are having a positive effect and pushing people to do dumber and dumber things.

It’s silly I know, but I can’t seem to stop playing Tower Blaster.

wordPhoto.org could be kind of cool:

This site presents photographers with a challenge - take a new photograph specifically for the word of the day, and post it for the rest of us to see. The only description and caption you get to include with your image is the word of the day (which the site does for you).

I did something similar for the 26 Things project, and I enjoyed it a bunch. I may have to do a few words and see how it goes. I haven’t looked through any of the photos on the site yet, but plan to soon. via

The Photography of Bill Brandt

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…in which the snake eats its own tail.

Sometimes the web is so cool and connected. A while ago, I posted an entry about the History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less.

Tonight, Eric Schulman dropped by that entry to answer one of my questions, and let me know that he had revised it down to a mere 100 words (greatly improving it I might add), and that it had become the basis for a book, A Briefer History of Time which you can now download or buy. I’m a few pages into reading it, and it’s great. Well worth your consideration.

I’m sorry to say the answer seems to be not very. I only got six out of ten on this BBC Book Quiz, and two of those were guesses.

I’m just setting an anchor for Email Roulette. I haven’t tried it, and I probably won’t, but just in case…

I almost signed up tonight, but then I realized I don’t have anything worthwhile or weird I want to say to a total stranger, and I probably don’t want to get mail from total strangers either. Since that’s kind of Email Roulette’s raison d’etre it didn’t make sense to start an account. Still, I guess it’s an interesting idea, so if you’re into that kind of thing it might be cool/fun/better than a stick in the eye.

Let me know how it works out for you.

It’s a little too what if we’re just an atom in the fingernail of some god to my sensibilities, but this page over on disenchanted.com provides some interesting background on the history of Pi, Phi, Chaos Theory, Strange Attractors, Mandelbrot Sets and Cellular Automata. via