tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116488372011-08-24T06:23:08.283-07:00We live in an age in which we are inundated with way more information than any individual person can possibly handle or digest. There is an increasing amount of knowledge that most people never know about because it escapes their rather tight radar scan. Here are a few knowledge odds and ends lying around from my own journeys which I offer. I welcome the sea shells, pretty rocks, and shiny glass that other readers have found that can contribute to this cross-border archive.tintinsnowyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02267342318011552924noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11648837.post-1153998319350640442006-07-27T04:00:00.000-07:002006-10-17T07:58:14.076-07:00

I’ve always been a big fan of anomalies because they provide a little glimpse into a Universe that we know so little about. And yet delude ourselves into thinking we know a lot about. I mean, why is an image of a stegosaurus carved into a Cambodian temple? Did a stone carver see a diorama in a museum somewhere? 2000 years ago? Or did he see one in the jungle, talk about it with his friends, and

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This site made me want to get on a plane and head out to Mejico and spend a month exploring the capital. Amazing photos taken by a helicopter pilot. I really had to study the photo on the left...it looks like a digital photo, in fact, it looks like a bad digital photo. But it’s a real live housing complex in Mexico.http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html

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Interesting article on a British savant who is able to explain (to a certain degree) how his mind works.http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1409903,00.html

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This is a very interesting web site by a screen writer, John August, and this is a rather compelling lecture he gave on how writing on the Internet is blurring the distinction between professional and amateur, and that perhaps that distinction should be firmed up. Worth reading.http://johnaugust.com/archives/2006/professional-writing-and-the-rise-of-the-amateur

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I enjoy this web page a lot because it has a lot of funky ideas for being creative, most of them potently oxymoronic. http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html

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This lovely lady was not getting the results she was hoping for on the online personals so she used her smartass feminine wiles to construct a little reverse psychology:First, the ad:25 yar ole short fat eye meen skinnie unemployd woomin wit 10 kidz seeks yung hottiey. Mhy hare wuz brite red but has sum gray in it naow. Muh eyes is blu. Eyes growin har outta muh ears an nose but eye is a hunk

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According to a computational study conducted by a group of physicists at Washington University in St. Louis, one may create order by introducing disorder. I love stories like this because it involves something simple (chaos leads to order), fundamental, and paradigm shifting. Plus the spill-over ramifications for other fields (chemistry, statistics, music, ballet, architecture, etc.) are

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Reminiscent of Fuller's vision for the Dymaxion House and advanced mass producible autonomous dwellings, Architect Marcin Panpuch has designed a high tech spherical house which can either float on water or be lifted by crane and fixed to a tower beside other such spheres. I love the idea of completely re-thinking the idea of habitat. Of course, if there were thousands of the bucky ball houses

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Clifford and his wonder dog, Champs.

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We live in an age in which we are inundated with way more information than any individual person can possible handle or digest. One result of this is the trend towards specialization...medicine, law, computer science, engineering, etc. Another result of this, which encompasses MY interest, is that there is an increasing amount of knowledge that most people never know about because it escapes

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