Octopus are truly the closest thing to alien intelligences that exists on this planet. If we ever do meet creatures from another world, the experience will be less like trying to communicate with someone from another country or even like trying to communicate with an elephant or a dolphin, and much more like trying to get inside the squishy, gelatinous head of an octopus.
from Scientist from an excellent discussion of Octopi.
The 2012 discretionary federal budget, in handy infographic format. Perfect when someone wants to shut down NPR to balance the budget, and you wonder, wait a second, would that even matter? The answer is no. No it wouldn’t.
Time Lapseof the Snowy Range Perseids Meteor Shower. by David Kingham.
You really get the sense that earth is hurtling through space at incredible speeds.
(Actually velocity of the earth through space is somewhere around 1 kilometer per second)
Hands down, Backwpup wins.
Supports WordPress network, backs up to multiple different endpoints (dropbox, s3, rackspace, ftp, filesystem, email), and most importantly backs up everything, files, uploads, themes and the whole database.
So full of win.
Fabian Oefner creates these arresting images by combining ferrofluids with watercolors. Magnetizing the ferrofluid forms channels along the magnetic field lines, pooling the colors in patterns that look much like psychedelic brains. Find out more about the project at itsnicethat.com.
FF Chartwell is a tool for easily creating graphs, disguised as a font. It utilizes OpenType to interpret and visualize the data. The data also remains editable, allowing for painless updates.
Unfortunately, webfonts are not supported. Aside from that, this is absolutely brilliant.
Sometimes, after you open a beer bottle, you wish you could reseal it. For those moments, the Hermetus Bottle Opener & Resealer might perfectly suit your purposes.
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