Enjoyed Only Lovers Left Alive and The Railway Man.

wow. very cool 3d printing pen. 

LIX 3D printing pen has the similar function as 3D printers. It melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures

cooltools. And the book

 

Bob Hoskins RIP

getting specific with the Minutecast on accuweather.

Allen St, New York, NY 10002

Rain will continue for 97 minutes

the indulgence of pickled baloney

i assume you all saw john oliver's oregon clip. such a ridiculous waste of money. 

this zebra is totally half-assed.

Warhol's 80's Commodore Amiga work

the other one

zombie formalism

I see my red door and it has been painted black

everywhere

which exit?

David Foster Wallace's 2002 Pomona College handout on five common word usage mistakes for his advanced fiction writing class.

in case you thought gabriel garcia marquez was still alive im here to tell you he is not.

growing up in bergen county, bergen community college was a handy punchline. once again it has lived down to its reputation.

do he bite?

action park

via adman

“The fetters which bind the people are forged from the people’s own gold.”

My friend shot this video of the lunar eclipse on Monday.

Paging L.M.: GIF fodder here.

Particle Fever

It's about the Large Hadron Collider. It's a gigantic discovery machine, designed to help peel back the layers that veil the fundamental laws of nature. It's also destructive testing. They destroy protons back smacking them into each other at very high speed.

The movie isn't about the science. It's about the excitement of human discovery.

In fact, there are details that go by too quickly if you are trying to learn the science. At one point, a speaker in a group meeeting presented a diagram of quarks, baryons and leptons in a format I've never seen before. As I tried to quickly mentally capture it for later recall, it flashed off the screen. But the details of the science in that meeting are not the point of the movie. It's about the people in that meeting, and about the thousands of people striving together to expand human knowledge.

Central to the movie is understanding the personal roles and dynamics of a few individuals on the project. The machine is humanized by exposure to the men and women who made it, controlled it, designed experiments, came up with the theoretical physics which is tested via the machine.

The group struggle and the multitude of individual struggles that interact, conflict and combine to effect that group struggle make for a compelling story of discovery.