This is the most ridiculously implausible tennis shot you’ll ever see.
Federer says “it was the greatest shot I ever hit in my life”.
Tags: Roger Federer sports tennis US…I got a kick out of this short video clip about writer Charles Bukowski’s loathing of Mickey Mouse, that “three-fingered son-of-a-bitch who has no soul, for Christ’s sake.” The fact that…
Back in August, I got a surprise in the mail: a long Braille computer printout and a letter. The letter was from Patti Smith, who teaches visually impaired middle-schoolers in Detroit’s public school…
In Scientific American, skeptic Michael Shermer presents his take on why people believe in conspiracies, even the most unlikely ones. Shermer raves about a new book on the subject by Arthur Goldwag,…
Very early that morning, as the smoke was rising, Boing Boing re-blogged this eyewitness account by Teresa Nielsen Hayden:
I just climbed back down from my Brooklyn rooftop. An airplane has…
Are there plans and printouts for this life-size Link? You bet there are. There are also plans on the Internet for atomic weapons - doesn’t mean I could build one of those either.
Holy Hyrule…
Very early that morning, as the smoke was rising, Boing Boing re-blogged this eyewitness account by Teresa Nielsen Hayden:
I just climbed back down from my Brooklyn rooftop. An airplane has…
This video of Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bach’s Musical Offering (1747) being turned into a Moebius strip, then played in two directions at the same time would have been good to watch and…
In Scientific American, skeptic Michael Shermer presents his take on why people believe in conspiracies, even the most unlikely ones. Shermer raves about a new book on the subject by Arthur Goldwag,…
The Royal Observatory has announced the winners of its Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.
I had no idea that images this sharp and detailed could be taken with non-pro ground…
Earlier this year, NPR ran a neat narrated slideshow of astronomers discussing their favorite images of space taken through the Hubble Telescope. It’s worth a second look, now that the device…
Earlier this year, NPR ran a neat narrated slideshow of astronomers discussing their favorite images of space taken through the Hubble Telescope. It’s worth a second look, now that the device…
When in the course of human events people lose their jobs and their ways to pay for bags of random stuff and close-out smoke detectors, it behooves all good men to approach shopping site…
