I came across this article from another blog. It’s about the sex life of marine animals, written to get people involved with and caring about marine life/conservation. There are numerous anecdotes in the article itself, although the full book is on its way (best seller?). Who could not be curious about marine sex?
http://tinyurl.com/2s9cf7
Extreme Sex Under [...]
I just learned that “impact” has only recently been used as a verb. The Dictionary program on my MacBook reports:
Impact has traditionally been only a noun. In recent years, however, it has undergone a semantic shift that has allowed it to act as a verb. Such use has become widespread (and also widely condemned by [...]
I’m back in San Diego after leaving mid-week when UCSD closed as a result of bad air quality from the wildfires. UCSD, La Jolla, and downtown were untouched by the fires, and only indirectly affected due to campus and road closures, and concern for those who were evacuating. Sadly, the community-supported agriculture program where I [...]
Rouxbe - The Recipe to Better Cooking
This website has excellent videos that accompany their recipes. - post by bmevans
What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?
This is an amusing illustration of how Google might design its webpage to get high page rank. - post by bmevans
Icastic - visualizing time
There are some interesting drawings of people’s perception of time in this collection! Some themes appear to be circular, cyclical, spiraling, progressing down a path, and being modified (apple getting eaten). What would you draw?
- post by bmevans
Twine Annotated
Twine is a new service for sharing, organizing and finding information with [...]
