For your reading pleasure:
- Bathtime In Clerkenwell, an astonishing, hypnotic short video with music by The Real Tuesday Weld and animation by Alex Budovsky. More videos are available on the various sites. Originally found at Rocketboom.
- Really creepy installation art. It involves pigeons.
- David Weinberger suggests a standardized disclosure form for bloggers.
- Babycage.net: Infant Confinement Specialists Since 2001. I really have nothing to say about this.
- Wired looks at absinthe.
- Wind, dirt, grass, snow, rain, mud, domes: NFL kickers and how to handle the elements.
- The Boston Pilgrims never existed as a baseball team.
- As part of the war effort, and an an attempt to make ‘socially conscious’ photographs, Ansel Adams went to visit the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar. He was, of course, roundly criticized for his efforts.
- HowStuffWorks examines the Death Star.
- Yahoo Maps responds to Google Maps. It’s still a beta, requires Flash, and has no satellite photos (yet). Still, pretty interesting.
- And finally, a tip: have an entry in your cell phone marked “Home”. That way, should your cell phone fall out of your pocket in a cab, the good samaritan who finds it will know what contact entry to call to return the errant device.
Did you leave your phone behind the same night the cabbie let you pay $10 for your $13 fare?
I do have a "Home" listing on my phone, but that's because I do actually call home sometimes. But yes, also a good idea for someone who finds your phone and wants to return it.
No, I didn't do that.
Love the new way to mitigate intentional jerkiness:
[insert intentional jerky activity here] but SUPPORT THE TROOPS!
Thanks, baby-cagers. Those SUV's may poot and pollute down the freeway, but their cold black engines support the troops the whole time.
Oddly enough, on the day you posted this, I found a lost cell phone. And promptly returned it.