Tiff Fehr, a Digital Compendium

Muppet Mashup: Mashups of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street by...

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:33:13 -0700

Muppet Mashup: Mashups of The Muppet Show and Sesame Street by DJ BC. it’s no Santastic, but it is still pretty amusing.

The Technium: The Choice of Cities

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:38 -0700

The Technium: The Choice of Cities

"I’m having communion with Desmond Tutu Friday morning. Eat your hearts out, suckers. I’m..."

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:16:46 -0700

“I’m having communion with Desmond Tutu Friday morning. Eat your hearts out, suckers. I’m secretly hoping for a better picture with him than I got last time, because as you can see, I had kind of Mufasa hair in that picture.”

- Cape Town to Cairo to Cambridge: Random Encounters. My friend @shans being her usual awesome self.

I’m so glad I decided to take a vacation

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:16:16 -0700

I’m so glad I decided to take a vacation

Eliminating the Bottom 5% (Strange Maps)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:09:37 -0700

Eliminating the Bottom 5% (Strange Maps)

The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine)

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:57:45 -0700

The Extinction Oscillator (Seed Magazine):

By looking at the varying contributions of sinusoids of different lengths to the power spectrum, you can reliably make estimations about the trends within a data set. Music is a good example. If you examined the power spectrum of the sound waves of different instruments playing middle C, each would look unique—which is why you could tell the instruments apart. But each would have a big peak at middle C—which is how you could tell they were all playing that note. So power-spectral analysis is a very effective way to search for regularities; one has to wonder why it wasn’t used sooner on the fossil record.

davidkaneda: Kelly Ray / Raphael Saadiq Train music for the...

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:45:45 -0700

davidkaneda:

Kelly Ray / Raphael Saadiq

Train music for the way home.

Airline Routes Predict Pathogen Spread

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:45:44 -0700

Airline Routes Predict Pathogen Spread

After Michael Jackson Died (Said the Gramophone)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:45:00 -0700

After Michael Jackson Died (Said the Gramophone):

And for an instant that lasted ten thousand years he felt the exactly sufficient amount of remorse
because God is a capable mathematician
when it comes to remorse.

sometimesagreatnotion:

…i’m an awe of this, and reminded all over again what poetry can do better than anything else…

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and...

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:29:59 -0700

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a new process to put together nanoparticles directly in the environment that is being studied. Additionally, this technique has led to the creation of tiny “light bulbs” that can be attached to specific proteins, opening a new modality for visualizing biochemical processes. (via Nanotech Leads to The Creation of Tiniest Light Bulbs)

The Not-So-Delicate Art of Shin-Kicking (Microkhan) via...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:21:45 -0700

The Not-So-Delicate Art of Shin-Kicking (Microkhan) via ascendingcoherence’s Reader feed.

Case-Shiller: Anemic Spring Bounce in April (Seattle Bubble)...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:32:26 -0700

Case-Shiller: Anemic Spring Bounce in April (Seattle Bubble) Anemic is the word that best describes the last 12 months and probably the next 12, too.

librarian.net: $5000 for one of the best library ad campaigns...

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:30:46 -0700

librarian.net: $5000 for one of the best library ad campaigns I’ve seen via ascendingcoherence’s Reader feed.

(via fauxmo)

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:29:44 -0700

(via fauxmo)

Why are there 60 minutes in an hour?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:29:44 -0700

Why are there 60 minutes in an hour?:

ascendingcoherence:

To understand the units of time we need to investigate the number systems of ancient civilizations. How did the Sumerians count to 12 on one hand and to 60 on two? What advances did the Babylonians make and how did they use this number system for measurement? And what refinements did the Egyptians make to time measurement to give us the system we still use today?
via Special Ideas Report

The Cost of Life

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:15:04 -0700

The Cost of Life : The Baseline Scenario: “at what point is the cost of medical care to extend life not justified?”

Make Things: Have you always wanted Disney’s head on...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:09:12 -0700

Make Things: Have you always wanted Disney’s head on a platter?. My friend Mike Gee is getting a MakerBot. I now have grand plans for shapes to send him. This just seals the deal. I wonder if you can make a cast from a print, then turn it into jello….

Nearly completed high-rise collapses in Shanghai | World |...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:42:27 -0700

Nearly completed high-rise collapses in Shanghai | World | Reuters

After Michael Jackson, Fame May Never Be the Same

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:46:50 -0700

After Michael Jackson, Fame May Never Be the Same:

But even if nobody achieves album sales on a Jacksonian scale, couldn’t he or she be an artist every bit as popular, every bit as loved, every bit as listened to?

Probably not. The pop-idol field — like every field that can lead to super-fame — is more crowded than it has ever been, and the varietyof routes to stardom keep growing.

Michael Jackson's death hit Glastonbury hard – and the news channels harder (Charlie Brooker)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:41:21 -0700

Michael Jackson's death hit Glastonbury hard – and the news channels harder (Charlie Brooker):

I was at Glastonbury when Jacko died. That’s not a factual statement, but a T-shirt slogan. The day after his death, souvenir tops with “I was at Glasto 09 when Jacko died” printed on them were already on sale around the site. In fact, when Jacko died, I was at home playing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on a Nintendo DSi. I am 38 years old.