Mad Quickies 12.12.12
Today is brought to you by the Number Twelve!
- Dear Crazy People, this site from NASA is just for you!
- Dramatic, minimalist black-and-white science imagery by Berenice Abbott, 1958-1960.
- Otto Neurath’s vintage infographic How Long Do Animals Live?
- In which Matt Inman responds to “writer” Jack Stuef and melts my computer screen. {via Surly Amy}
- Jim C. Hines challenges Scalzi to a pose-off for charity. Warning: what is seen can never be unseen. {via Brian G.}
- Belladonna, verdigris, saltpetre and other Poisons and Antidotes from Godey’s Lady’s Book 1854. {via @biblioteq_tress}
- Bec Crew reports on the first photo of rare, wild New Guinea singing dog in 23 years.
- At Design Observer: Dom Sylvester Houédard’s Cosmic Typewriter.
Cats imitating art and other reasons to click…
- Plant Anatomy Charts. That’s hot.
- In 2006, the Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories created a plasma that was arguably the hottest human-made thing ever.
- Carry on, X-Men. {via Steve D.}
- EARTHQUAKE ART! Make art using seismograph data. Vid.
- At Google Books in its entirety: The Natural History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions, 1799.
- The “Grande Odalisque” and the rest of the 21 cats imitating art.
- I was supposed to pick up Carl.
- And… straight from literature’s Hall of Shame: the winners have been announced for this year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
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Artist Robert Wechsler created the
Penny Matrix
{via Steve D.}
Cubes achieved by notching and joining pennies in perfect orientation.
More of his work at RobertWechsler.com.
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Emily Dickinson on the 182nd anniversary of her birth:
Poem 600 to the tune of Gilligan’s Island
by ScurvyGirl
{via Emily F.}
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In honor of today,I give you…
12 and Pinball Animation
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Featured image is an excerpt of Parabolic Mirror by Berenice Abbott, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, silver gelatin print.
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Penny Matrix makes me want to cry. It’s so impressive. Humans are unbelievable.
The Sesame Street 12 video transports me back in time.