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I must admit to a certain fascination with low-tech housing solutions, so it was interesting to read this article on Boing Boing and the associated links. Architects Nader Khalili and Iliona Outram won the Aga Khan award for their method of using sandbags and barbwire to construct buildings based upon circular courses which are corbelled […]

Bristol Centre for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics | Publications | 2004 | Abstract of preprint 2004.3 This paper explains how one can crochet the Lorenz manifold, the two-dimensional stable manifold of the origin of the Lorenz system. My grandmother taught me to crochet when I was only five or six. I wonder how long it would […]

The classic It’s a Wonderful Life, directed by Frank Capra, but starring bunnies, and taking only 30 seconds. Caution: Didn’t work for me in Firefox.

This website is brilliant. Really brilliant. In case you didn’t know, there are 170 feet of noodles in a packet of ramen. But while you are at cockeyed.com, surf around. Lots of stuff that’s good. Photos of laser tatoo removal. Satan, made from Paper Mache. Costumes. Wow.

Like the pixel art on eboy? Here is The Complete Guide to Isometric Pixel Art, a nifty guide to spelling out how it’s done. Very retro.

Need an inexpensive hobby? Try Rock Balancing. Bill Dan appears to be rather good at it.

Brilliant! Link courtesy of Dan Lyke at Flutterby!.

Wow, Metafilter kindly pointed me to another Pixarian who blogs: Ronnie del Carmen, and damn. Lots of really nice artwork. Sometimes working at Pixar can give you a feeling of intense inadequacy.

Joshua Talley has written a nice little piece on how he achieved artistic insight (and may have gotten laid) by going to the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco. It made me and my wife chuckle. Both of us do enjoy the museum incidentally, since we are members. You’ll have to judge any side […]

Favorite quote: Woah! They are some kind of crazy midge-gets. Link courtesy of Metafilter

I can’t help but marvel at some people’s cleverness in inventing random acts of beautification.

Over the weekend, Julian Gomez informed me of a project that he thought (correctly) that I might be interested in: The L Prize. What is that, you say? Best answer from their website: The L PRIZE is a new and exciting open competition that will be officially launched fall 2004 by an independent team led […]

Ever wonder what happens if you play Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz? Wonder no further.

The Big Picture has an interesting list of post-election maps which seek to demonstrate the oddities of how people voted in the Presidential election. I find this one to be rather interesting, which showed that of the 32 states that receive more in federal tax money than they collect in taxes, 76% ended up voting […]

Enjoy carving those large wintertime vegetables!