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Number Spirals are really cool. There is an elegance in the apparent symmetry that is kind of awe inspiring. Via

Obviously, the characters in the animated movie, Souvenir, never saw that episode of “The Brady Bunch” where they go to Hawaii. If they had, then they would have known to respect the power of the Tiki. Via

Scientific American has an article, The First Nanochips that details some of the challenges and solutions that develop as the semi-conductor industry races to build ever smaller/faster microprocessors.

There are some seriously smart people who are building things that are incredibly small.

I luvs me the random photo links. This One gives you the most recent images posted to LiveJournal (Some Images May be NSFW). Keep hitting refresh. It changes every time. Hours of fun (for those like me who are VERY easily amused).

Why on earth did I ever like the show Electra Woman and Dyna Girl when I was a kid? I mean I know kids have something like zero taste in this kind of stuff, but WOW that show was bad. Seriously, seriously, seriously bad. TV Land was running episodes, so naturally I TiVo’d it in a fit of nostalgia.

It’s obviously supposed to be a female version of the old Adam West Batman series. Batman was campy and self-effacing, so it actually holds up pretty well. I mean, I liked it as a kid a whole bunch too, and I liked it for very different qualities than what I might see in it now. Still, on either level it works pretty well.

Electra Woman and Dyna Girl though feels like really bad fan fiction of Batman, like the star wars kid who was making the internet rounds last year only not as funny/good. It’s like what you might get if you taped a bunch of kids on the playground acting out super hero rolls — except here the writing is worse.

I do dig the secret door though. I always wanted my own secret door that led to my own secret lair.

It took me 74 moves to solve this java sliding puzzle, No-Off. You’re supposed to be able to do it in 44. Now I’ll have to spend the whole weekend trying to do better. Curse you Boing Boing!

On a Mac, it seems to require IE. Don’t know what it requires on a PC.

Somebody took Billy Joel’s history lesson, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, and made an annotated version of the lyrics. Now if only I could find somebody to do the same thing with the theme song from “Cheers”.

Seriously though, I’d never heard of George Santayana before reading this annotation, and I’m genuinely amazed that I hadn’t. He sounds like a profound and influential figure in American thought. My education blew. via

I simply can’t stop playing with Subservient Chicken. I get tired of it, but then I think, I wonder if they thought of…, and I have to try it out. Of course, they haven’t thought of everthing, but this chicken will do a surprising number of things you tell it to.

There’s something about these clothing sculptures that reminds me of the muppets from the movie Labyrinth. I’m not sure what exactly, but I think they’re pretty cool. via

The artwork of Gabrielle de Montmollin is interesting and kind of creepy. Dolls always have this potential to be kind of creepy, and when you shoot it and process it and mess it up the way this artist does, it gets even weirder. I’m not sure what to think of it, but I think I like it. via