Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 11.23
It’s the Friday Quickies. Surf’s up!
- Remember the Quietus commercial from Children of Men? Watch it and other commercials from sci-fi flicks here.
- This is my favorite Thanksgiving post this year: works of art inspired by the Wishbone.
- Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner creates 3D art with soundwaves.
- Very happy to see this: Morbid Anatomy gets some love from Animal New York.
- At Symbiaritic: A handy dandy guide to candy.
- Alexandra Baker does beautiful medical editorial illustrations.
- Some animal shelters are making “Black Friday” literal and are waving adoption fees on black or mostly black cats and dogs.
- OMIGODZ DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME! Circle the Cat.
Want more Vi Hart awesomeness? Then jump!
- Discovering Australia: 19-century watercolors by John Lewin.
- Five historical manias that gripped societies and then disappeared.
- Breat Black Friday deals on Science Fiction and Fantasy merch.
- TARDIS minifridge.
- Just because this is hilarious. I think I lost it at “Item #02-759472 Reclaimed rustic chicken coop” … The Hater’s Guide to the Willams-Sonoma Catalog. {via @akd209}
- Humorously imagined lamps trying to escape. Humorous? Dunno. Lynchian is more like it.
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More from Vi Hart’s Thanksgiving Feast series
{via Steve D.}
Thanksgiving Turduckenen-duckenen
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Top your Green Bean Matherole with…
Borromean Onion Rings
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American TinType
After a personal tragedy, Harry Taylor discovered a passion for the 150-year-old craft of tintype photography.
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The BIBLIO-MAT
Found at Flavorwire.
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Featured image is and excerpt of Brood by Kate MccGwire. Photo by Jonty Wilde.
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Oooh, that cat! (shakes fist)
Can anyone actually win at this thing?
Got it:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/100555960/FireShot%20Screen%20Capture%20%23001%20-%20'Circle%20the%20Cat%20~%20Grandma%20Faith's'%20-%20www_members_shaw_ca_gf3_circle-the-cat_html.png
Managed it three times now so I think I’ve found the trick to it.
Lies and hubris. Much depends on the placement of the initial dots.
I managed to trap the cat twice. Uh-dictive!