A Commonplace Book

Elephant by ~ WillMcLean on deviant ART

CASSINI MISSION from cabbas on Vimeo . Sequential still photos from Cassini edited into a breathtaking short film by Chris Abbas. More on ...

This happened fairly often. There were three main ways this could occur. 1. Thrusting or pushing, lance against lance. The push was a high i...

Animated mutating sheep. Hoisted from the comments: children wept, women screamed, and grown men fainted. It's like I said. Animated. Mu...

Hat tip to Popular Science : There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the w...

A remembrance I wrote in 2009.

An interesting post from Greg Mankiw. What this means is that if you are a college admissions officer trying to identify the students who w...

This 1928 film is a festival of anachronism and overacting, from the distinctly not 10th century castle to Sigurd's Bronze Age armor to ...

Miles O'Brien gives a eulogy to our robotic proxy. It was a good seven years, and more than anyone expected. Opportunity, one wheel cri...

Some thing s never go out of style. A few observations on these revivals of medieval style defenses. Being able to rent a bulldozer instead ...