Seen via Suzanne: this intro video for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks’s hockey team.
Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro from Szymon Weglarski on Vimeo.
Via Suzanne, this post on BoingBoing about hair ice.
While the term frost is used frequently as part of such names, these ice formations are not a product of frost. Frost comes about by moisture from the air being deposited on surfaces. As such frost is quite amorphous and would never appear as fine needles like we see here. Hair Ice is ice that grows outward from the surface of the wood, as super-cooled water emerges from the wood, freezes and adds to the hairs from the base.
I heartily recommend the short story Searching for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder, published the other day on Tor.com. Four pages. Ten minutes of reading, fifteen max. You won’t regret it.
Ten years after my parents died, my therabot, Bob, informed me that I should seek help elsewhere. I blinked at his suggestion.
"I’ve already tried chemical intervention," I told his plastic grin. "It didn’t work." I scowled, but that did nothing to de-brighten his soothing, chipper voice.
Seen on True Chip Till Death: Shnabubula covers Bit Shifter’s "Reformat the Planet" on piano.
Normally I don’t care much for covers, nor for analog instruments covering digital songs, but this is really good.
Via Suzanne: check out these awesome cupcakes.
Every year, we throw a big, game party to ring in the new year. This year (2010) is our house’s 100-year birthday, so we celebrated with cupcakes… … and the cupcakes were a game. Here they are in random order – see how many you can guess! Mouse over the question mark to reveal the answer.
The goal is to guess as many of the games depicted by cupcakes as you can. Some of these are amazingly evocative, either through amazingly photographic reproduction, or by hitting on strongly quintessential themes.
On 8bit today, a gallery of pixel-art to varying extents and with varying styles. My favorite:
Seen via Suzanne: Edie’s Big Adventure, a series of photos where a hamster "rides" a model subway.
