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… but at what cost. Going outside to play some basketball now…

Break time! Catch up on celebrity gossip! OMG it’s the New Scientific Method!

Some satire from yours truly. Sad that for some, it’s close to the truth.

“Make an observation.

Take a photo of it with your phone. Apply cool looking image filter, tweak with selective blurring, and then share via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, your blog, etc.

Provide a trite but punchy comment that explains your observation. This is your hypothesis. OMG!”

Read on at McSweeney’s.

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Beautiful carpet made from computer parts

By Federico Uribe, via Colossal.

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In which Minecraft is used to create a working neuron. #whoa

Here is a close-up of the voltage-gated Sodium Channel…

By AllUpInHyuh. See details here (click – this is very cool).

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Biodiversity caught on Google’s Street View #mesmerizing

There might not be a truer visual representation of our contemporary wired world than Jon Rafman’s web-based “9 Eyes” project, for which he culled the most bizarre, haunting, and stunning images frozen in Google’s “Street View” mapping project to create a truly amazing work of digital art that is both innately appealing and strangely, darkly poetic. (From Blouin Art Info)

From the 9 Eyes of Google Street View by Jon Rafman. Definitely click on the 9 Eyes links – some of the screen captures are quite haunting.

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June 18, 2012

Deep fried Apple (Computer) products

For use in commentary where too much of a good thing (as in too much time spent on these devices) is maybe not so good after all?

By Henry Hargreaves.

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May 26, 2012

Radiohead’s “O.K. Computer” in glorious 8 bit. #song4mixtape #whoa

Very cool… Plus, I can’t get Airbag out of my head now.

By Quinton Sung, and full track listing at the YouTube page. Bonus is that you can download the entire album as well. (There’s also Kid A treatment as well).