Your Orca thread

by liberal japonicus At the risk of upsetting Katherine Goldstein, I will crack open a thread about the GOTV program (or perhaps that should be written pogram) that was Orca. There are a number of links floating around, the politico link has been cited quite a bit, and it has the added advantage of having … Read more

De-booking

by Doctor Science Over the past few years I’ve noticed more and more articles about people using books to make things, usually art but sometimes furniture. The architecture library at the Technical University of Delft had to be rebuilt after a devastating fire in 2008. This is the new front of the library — now … Read more

Your standards of beauty Friday open thread

by liberal japonicus It's nice to have objective standards, so this was heartening. A Chinese beauty contest requiring candidates to have nipples spaced at least 20 centimetres (7.8 inches) apart sparked a storm of criticism on the Internet on Friday. I was wondering if 20 cm was close to some ancient Chinese measure of proportion. … Read more

From Dr Science

via liberal japonicus Hello Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea. The good doctor is fine but doesn't have the bandwidth to post this up, so she sent it as an email to the usual suspects and Japan time being what it is, I'm putting it up.  I've had an easier Sandy … Read more