PLQ

"The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:26:40 -0400

“The Altairan Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flaninian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flaninian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles across each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.”

- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zoom-in on a Star Cluster 5500 Light Years Away (via wired)

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:17:08 -0400

Zoom-in on a Star Cluster 5500 Light Years Away (via wired)

“Why I feel the overwhelming need to write something true...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:24:00 -0400

“Why I feel the overwhelming need to write something true today.”

homecoming: “DORYUKAMERA Co. 16-millimeter pistol film camera”...

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:49:00 -0400

homecoming:

“DORYUKAMERA Co. 16-millimeter pistol film camera” via Pixdaus

“Shoot everything.”

≈ Fathoms! (via Posthuman Blues)

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:21:47 -0400

≈ Fathoms! (via Posthuman Blues)

Answered this question soon after arriving in this universe, and...

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:57:00 -0400

Answered this question soon after arriving in this universe, and apparently not for the first time, by reference to this ‘blog’.

When the shuttle docked with the ISS on July 15, the combined...

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:02:27 -0400

When the shuttle docked with the ISS on July 15, the combined crews set a new record for space-vehicle occupancy. (via Wired Science)

(via @thepublicdomain)

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:21:57 -0400

(via @thepublicdomain)

(via Boing Boing)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:02:52 -0400

(via Boing Boing)

≠ Obviously, I need to write grabbier headlines. This is the...

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:03:00 -0400

≠ Obviously, I need to write grabbier headlines. This is the recent hit list. My own posts to Tumblr start with ‘PLQ’ or show Tumblr in the URL (and got 2, 4, and 5 so-called ‘clicks’). Click to enlarge.

Also, people are interested in all sorts of genres and media, but the nonspecificity of both represented by ‘culture vortex’ (the headline for probably the coolest link of the bunch), almost nobody is interested in clicking on. So much is overlooked in the rush to locate what we’ve already seen before…

Amazing culture vortex from Metaphysical Neuroma ≈ Fathoms!...

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:51:00 -0400

Amazing culture vortex from Metaphysical Neuroma ≈ Fathoms! Click through to see the full-size, uncropped page. (There’s more.)

“Best idea I ever had…importing those wild hogs and...

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:56:03 -0400

“Best idea I ever had…importing those wild hogs and letting them run loose on my game preserve! Yes, sir!” (via The Horrors Of It All)

thewarindrew: frightened: Family tree of Mario games. click...

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:01:14 -0400

thewarindrew:

frightened:

Family tree of Mario games. click to enlarge.

yessssssssss

Fascinating.

Ex Voto (via Boing Boing)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:20:42 -0400

Ex Voto (via Boing Boing)

Bashing a Monster into the Ground (via Pink Tentacle)

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:29:00 -0400

Bashing a Monster into the Ground (via Pink Tentacle)

(via homecoming) ≈ Fathoms, weirdly.

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:58:32 -0400

(via homecoming)

≈ Fathoms, weirdly.

Three minutes of pointing-a-spacecraft-at-the-sky porn.

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:14:00 -0400

Three minutes of pointing-a-spacecraft-at-the-sky porn.

"We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human..."

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:02:00 -0400

“We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.”

- Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (via @GreatDismal)

Photo

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:46:07 -0400

Photo

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:07:00 -0400