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Visual Hiphopendia

"Differentiation of Fat Joe's Liquid-based Promiscuity" and other charts and graphics of rap lyrics.

Eye Candy

Gorgeous video from Flight 404.

More nature inspired art, photography and mathematics stuff:
Collective Perception

FAA Flight Pattern Art

More artful interpretations of flight pattern data here.

Mutual Replication

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything

Garrett Lisi, surfer guy and physicist extraordinaire, thinks he has a better theory of everything: wrapping up gravity, the general theory of relativity and the standard model of particle physics into one model he describes as “Exceptionally Simple.” I read his abstract, and don’t have a clue what the fuck it’s talking about, but it is pretty cool he was able to raise a hell of a lot of establishment eyebrows while being an outsider... as well as come up with an apparently plausible theory that doesn’t require extra dimensions beyond 1 of time and 3 of space (although he needed a 248 dimensional model to do it). Anyway, some folks are saying this might be bullshit, or at least not very useful, but it’s pretty and has successfully distracted me from what I'm supposed to be doing right now.

Gorgeous Animations:
http://deferentialgeometry.org/anim/

Articles:
http://www.newscientist.com/...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/e...

Update

There's a better explanation of this model at Slashdot.

I also found a nice video from New Scientist.

RESOLVED:

WE RECOGNIZE THAT VERY LITTLE IS IMPORTANT TO US RIGHT NOW EXCEPT FOR MAKING RAD THINGS AND SO WE WILL MAKE RAD THINGS.

WE WILL SURROUND OURSELVES WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS WHO DESIRE TO SPEND THEIR TIME MAKING RAD THINGS.

WE WILL SUPPORT EFFORTS TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTS WHICH NURTURE THE RAD AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ITS FOUNDATION.

WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS RENEWED FOCUS ON MAKING AND SUPPORTING RAD THINGS MAY CONFLICT WITH PATTERNING WHICH HAS BEEN DEEPLY IMPRINTED ON OUR SELVES DUE TO OUR INHERENT LAMENESSES. THIS FACT SHALL NOT CONFLICT WITH PREVIOUSLY STATED RESOLUTIONS.

WE WILL ALLOW BEHAVIORS WHICH DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO RADNESS TO NATURALLY DESELECT THEMSELVES AND WE WILL ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE THE BETTER FOR IT.

FOLLOWING THIS STATEMENT OF RESOLUTION, WE WILL TRY NOT TO SAY "RAD" ANYMORE, BUT WE WILL BE THINKING IT.

Death by Tray - Eddie Izzard interpreted in Star Wars Legos

This video provides further proof that all of the things I love in the world sneak into each others' bedrooms late at night and fornicate to the point of conception in other people's heads too.

The unicorns cometh

Rainbow Test, originally uploaded by joygantic.

I'm working on constructing a unicorn photo opportunity with Mark and Amani. My roommate is making a zombie movie. Clearly the stacks of Stephen King and Piers Anthony books I read in middle school are starting to feedback into my life in strange and interesting ways.