a different kind of spam
another hilarious comic from abstruse goose.
here's a little preview...
click below for the full comic!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
rare photos of famous people
a blog called something beautiful has a great collection of rarely seen photographs of famous people. it took me quite a while to get through the whole collection, but it was worth the journey! here are my favorites:
melanie griffith and don johnson
bob marley
salvador dali
pablo picasso
miss marilyn. 
charles bukowski and mickey rourke, back when rourke was so cute.
alfred hitchcock with his children
i couldnt even tell who this was at first...
sean connery! ha!
george clooney and his teeth
Friday, February 5, 2010
chiang mai, thailand
in april, 2009, i shared the story of traveling for 38 hours to get across thailand. here is the (much delayed) continuation of that story.
once the bus from koh chang ("best waterfight ever") dropped me off in bangkok, i took a tuk-tuk to the train station... 
... where i saw huge (decades old) images of the king everywhere. 
after 17 hours on the train for a trip that was advertised to take 14 hours, i made it to chiang mai, in the northwestern region of thailand.
some parts of the ancient wall still surround the square-shaped old part of the city. 
a canal/moat system also surrounds the old city. 
the region is known for wooden carvings and stone/gem inlays.
i wasnt disappointed! 
there are markets open all over the city selling food and goods all day, and almost all night!
this group sat right in the middle of the the pedestrian path at a night market. all the musicians were blind and their music sounded amazing!
a beautiful place to visit is the flower market.
these are necklaces or bracelets for your buddha statues!
people present impressive offerings at all the many temples throughout the city. this one includes cigar(ette)s in the style of the hill tribes. i found some at a little hidden shop and tried one out of curiosity. yuck!!
this is the view from inside the little hidden shop:
this man sat with his collection on a completely empty road and seemed very pleased when i asked if i could take his photo.
this was a page inside a beginner's thai language book. so the important scenarios to understand: old people yelling at kids, mustached-men beating snakes, life in prison, and liquor...?
i visited an orphanage one afternoon and played with a lot of active two-year-olds.
i'm working on an entire post dedicated to the food i encountered in chiang mai... coming soon!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
isaac newton - the personality
the latest video from the ongoing sixty symbols of physics and astronomy project explores the personality of one of history's greatest scientists: isaac newton.
feel free to suggest topics you'd like to see discussed in a sixty symbols video in the comments.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
IMAX hubble 3D - preview
the IMAX hubble 3D website has been updated including a preview of the film.
check it out!
look for the release at IMAX and IMAX 3D movie theatres on march 19th, 2010!
alka-seltzer in space
we take a lot for granted - including gravity. the way our bodies have naturally evolved to function and the way we've designed nearly everything, assumes that gravity always pulls us towards the center of the earth. so what happens when youre in space, and gravity is weak and doesnt have a preferred direction?
some astronauts decided to add an alka-seltzer pill to a glob of water to see what would happen! it wasnt what i expected...
Monday, February 1, 2010
julia child cooks primordial soup
i'm speechless... she uses a big old knife to point with, and later she uses a mixing spoon! haha!
"Julia Child cooks up a batch of primordial soup and explains how these simple ingredients produce amino acids - the building blocks of life. This video played in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Life in The Universe gallery from 1976 until the gallery closed."
Sunday, January 31, 2010
blast from the past
there is a nice gallery of photos on flickr that show a modern scene with an image of the location from the past superimposed - the effect is really great! here is my favorite, but be sure to check out the whole gallery.
i also like this one by jason e powell.
found via mike's meandering mind.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
star wars cakes
why didnt i think to get a star wars theme cake for my 30th birthday? there's always the 31st to plan for... 
see the whole set at funcrawler.com
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