Galloway versus Paxton

Galloway: The Industrial Mix
(Don't panic, it's not really 45 minutes long.)

Gosh I'm easily amused.

Just got the two:

Hiding Alarm Clock

When the alarm clock goes off and the snooze button is pressed, Clocky will roll off the bedside table and wheel away, bumping mindlessly into objects on the floor until it eventually finds a spot to rest. Minutes later, when the alarm sounds again, the sleeper must get up out of bed and search for Clocky. This ensures that the person is fully awake before turning it off. Small wheels that are concealed by Clocky's shag enable it to move and reposition itself, and an internal processor helps it find a new hiding spot every day.

The Art of Science

I'm pretty sure I've posted a few of these before, but not in such a comprehensive list.

Royal Society of Chemistry Visual Periodic Table (Flash)

The Periodic Table Table

Michael Swanwick's Periodic Table

Flash Animation of The Elements by Tom Lehrer

Periodic Table of Rejected Elements

A Freakin' Huge List of Web Resources - See especially Non-Chemical Periodic Tables

This One's Simple and Efficient

And some Flash fun from France: Zanorg

An April First story we missed.

There has been a small outbreak of “zombism” in a small town near the border of Laos in North-Eastern Cambodia.

The culprit was discovered to be mosquitoes native to that region carrying a new strain of Malaria which thus far has a 100 percent mortality rate and kills victims in fewer than 2 days.

After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”

Cambodian officials say that the outbreak has been contained and the public has no need to worry.

Also -

666 the number of the beast
Hell and fire was spawned to be released

Erm, apparently not.

A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616...

Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."

Pffft. Eggheads, whadda they know?

See you at the Time Travellers' Convention.

Guess-the-Google
Another Google retrofit - here we guess the keyword search that generated the selection of images.

First off, go look at this optical illusion.

Cool, eh?

Anyhoo, while searching for museums of medical history I compiled this list of somewhat interesting sites:

Anatomia
Anatomical plates from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

The Brain Museum
Images and information from one of the world's largest collection of well-preserved, sectioned and stained brains of mammals.

Ingenious.org.uk
Images exploring the Relationship of Science and Culture

The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online

Museum of the History of Science (Florence)

Museum of the History of Science (Oxford)

Museum of Hoaxes

Smithsonian Institution

Index of Medieval Medical Images

History of Ancient Medicine

National Library of Medicine
Some great exhibitions including Visual Culture and Public Health Posters. (This last via the Nonist, which is why I was looking in the first place.)

Panorama - The Mescalin Experiment
From the Hidden Archive of ... some of the corpses are amusing, here's the transcript of staid British MP Christopher Mayhew taking mescaline for a never broadcast Panorama documentary from the '50s.

The Prophecy of St Malachy

May give some insight into why the new Pope took the name of Benedict, bizarrely enough.

www.kokogiak.com

I think we mentioned this chap some time ago in reference to the megapenny project, but he has a lot of other even cooler stuff; e.g. the Seattle Waterfront Wipe and Mars Stereo Imagery.

Have we directed your attention to Tokyo Plastic and their innovative use of flash before? If not, how remiss of us. If so, feh.

Check out the Taiko Drummers - who seem to be more easily accessed here.

Interesting stuff:

The Wooster Collective - "A Celebration of Street Art"

Beneath My Feet - "An (Almost) Daily Catalogue of the Textures Beneath My Feet"

The Star Wars Holiday Special
A more in-depth site than the one we linked to at Christmas. "Enjoy".

Barista has a more substantial list of this year's April Fool's news-stories, and Foolish Internet supplies a handy retrospective.

Stick Work
Large sculpture installations woven from twigs and branches. Nice and eerie.

Yesterday was like an old Simpsons joke rewritten by Satanists.

"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No"
"Is the Pope dead yet?"
"No - oh, wait... nnnnow he is."

Time to read up on the legacy (via Buck Hill). And pick a successor.

BoringBoring.org

April Fools' Day Weblog Parody (and don't I wish there really was a website called StudiousGirls) - there were others but you'd need to read blogs 24/7 to get the jokes.

I can't believe I've been doing this shit for two years.

The March of the Sinister Ducks

Being a strange bit of English rock history by The Sinister Ducks, featuring Alex Green, David J. (better known for his work with Bauhaus) and Alan Moore (better known for his graphic novels).

A recent Flash Animation interpretation

Mp3 courtesy of Neil Gaiman

Interview with Alex Green

Old Gangsters Never Die
Sleevenote material from the record; story by Alan Moore, art by Lloyd Thatcher

Maps

Historical Maps of European Cities

Map of the Milky Way and the Universe

The Map Room, a weblog about maps

Map of the Internet

Tool for Making Maps Showing All Countries / U.S. States / Canadian Provinces What You Have Visited

Something Interesting

Virtual Zen Garden

QTVR Gallery
Unless you know what QTVR is and have a very fast uplink, you might want to give this a swerve and instead try taking a walk in the sunshine, or doing a crossword, or staring at the ceiling contemplating the futility of existence.

The Solar Death Ray
Point of etiquette: is it "Bwahahahahah!" or "Mwahahahahah!"?

ZoomInfo

An automatic dossier-maker, like a smarter version of googlism.

Broaden your horizons:

The Armour Museum

The Atari Museum

The Bad Album Covers Museum

The Bicycle Museum

The Book Depository Museum

The Bowling Museum

The Cold War Museum

The Computer Museum

The Condiment Packet Museum

The Electronics Museum

The Folk Art Museum

The Jim Crow Museum

The Language Museum

The Shoe Museum

The Synthesiser Museum

The Toaster Museum

The Toaster Museum (another one)

The Unworkable Machine Museum

The UFO Museum

The Web Art Museum

Amaztype
Similar to Toogle, using book images from Amazon. Very cute, very silly.

Science Made Stupid

"Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction."

Zaverio
Makers of finely crafted wooden laptops.

Music Plasma
Another genre-mapping device.

The End is Nigh

Some useful sites for:

Predicting the Apocalypse - The Rapture Index

Preparing for the Apocalypse - Rapture Letters*

Preventing the Apocalypse - World Jump Day

And some background snark - It's the End of the World As We Know It... Again

* as featured on The Daily Show