Glass Wings Blog: February 2013
Doctor Who History 1963-2012
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:45:45 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://vimeo.com/18204493
"An updated clip montage of the entire history of Doctor Who from Nov
23, 1963 to Dec 25, 2012."
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Music and The Brain
Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:31:54 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
It's so cute how the audience just automatically gets what Bobby McFerrin is
doing at this conference of science geeks (not music geeks).
http://youtu.be/zC23WekZ8m8
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National Geographic 2012 photo contest
Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:40:30 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/
"More than 22,000 entries were submitted from over 150 countries, with
professional photographers and amateur photo enthusiasts across the
globe participating. Photographs were submitted in three categories:
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Miyazaki on the Flawed Concept of “Good vs. Evil”
Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:41:13 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://krimhum.tumblr.com/post/39661395861/miyazaki
Many people have been influenced by Miyazaki, including most famously
Pixar but also, for example, Mark Oakley (iboxpublishing.com). I don't
know if there's a direct influence, but Lauren Faust and the writers of
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Amanda Palmer on Internet hatred and bullying
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:06:23 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.amandapalmer.net/blog/20130105/ (first of three parts)
Cheers,
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The Beatles of Comedy
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:22:29 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Animals on Google Street View
Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:18:46 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
It is so much fun when the Google-mobile snaps a few animals while getting
street views.
http://petslady.com/articles/google_street_views_top_10_accidental_animals_61255
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Protest Slogans That Will Grow on You
Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:48:51 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Academic Men Explain Things to Me
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:59:35 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://mansplained.tumblr.com/
"Are you a female academic, researcher, or graduate student? Has a man
tried to explain your field or topic to you, on the assumption that he
must inevitably know more about it than you do?"
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Leopards find a Mirror
Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:48:09 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
This answers the age old question: if a leopard finds a mirror in the forest,
does it adjust it's makeup?
http://youtu.be/ANH-0dAO_kw
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Singular "they"
Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:41:37 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://languagehippie.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/someone-asked-me-about-singular-they.html>
"Essentially, singular they refers to the use of the plural pronoun
“they” (as well as “them” and “their”) to refer to a single person. It’s
controversial because some people think these words should only ever be
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Free Wallpapers
Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:30:22 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://flickr.com/photos/romainguy
Download the collection from:
http://goo.gl/08TXN
Or including the original size (warning, 500MB):
http://goo.gl/CZ1DM
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Dolphins stampede alongside boat 'like a herd of wild horses'
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:26:00 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/50575/dolphins+stampede+alongside+boat+like+a+herd+of+wild+horses/>
"The dolphins off Southern California, apparently, are not ready to give
up the spotlight to migrating gray whales just yet. The accompanying
footage shows an enormous pod of common dolphins in what's sometimes
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Charles Addams Illustrates Mother Goose, 1967
Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:33:44 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/07/charles-addams-mother-goose/>
"The Charles Addams Mother Goose is exactly as darkly delightful as
you’d expect it to be, bringing the time-honored characters to wicked
new life. In the midst of the Vietnam War, Addams brought equal parts
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Camryn Forrest Designs
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:32:33 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Steampunk snow globes and water globes:
http://camrynforrest.com/just-photos/
Share and enjoy,
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Headlines That Need to Be Read Twice
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:59:44 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
...or maybe even three times. They certainly are funny as they are!
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/14/Flubbed-Headlines/
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Book Forest: Berlin Turns Fallen Tree Trunks Into a Free Book Exchange!
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:46:08 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://inhabitat.com/book-forest-fallen-tree-trunks-transformed-into-a-free-book-exchange-in-berlin/>
"A forest of book-bearing trees has sprouted up on the streets of
Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin! The program, called Forest Books by
BauFachFrau, is part of the BookCrossing book swap club, which brings
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The Places You’ll Go
Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:48:00 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/the-places-youll-go/309191>
"Michael Jones, whose official title at Google is chief technology
advocate, was a co-founder of Keyhole, one of the first companies to
offer online, high-resolution satellite views of much of the Earth. In
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Article: Czech Scientists Create A Real-Life Tractor Beam
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:57:54 +1100
Site Rating Defence <srd [at] netspace.net.au>
I love your sparse postings of interesting and topical links. Here is a
something I know you'll both share & enjoy.
Czech Scientists Create A Real-Life Tractor Beam
http://www.earthtechling.com/2013/02/czech-scientists-create-a-real-life-tractor-beam/
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The Friendship
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:10:26 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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Buckaroo Banzai Q&A
Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:05:14 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
A truly classic movie. Here's a New York Film Festival Q&A with Kevin
Smith, Peter Weller and John Lithgow (note, Kevin Smith swears about as
much as usual):
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http://marsdrivein.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/q-on-buckaroo-banzai-to-whet-your.html>
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300 Cats, Yes. Craziness, No.
Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:25:48 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/garden/300-cats-and-counting.html
"Some people come here to adopt a cat from the Goathouse Refuge, the
animal sanctuary she runs, tucked back in the woods. Others come to buy
her pottery or ceramic art, which is displayed in the sunny showroom on
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"House" music
Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:31:44 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://youtu.be/0usxCOs1tPc
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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Listen Live to Whale Songs From Hawaii
Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:33:31 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/listen-live-to-humpbacks/
"The gurgles, whistles, and squeaks of humpback whales singing off
Hawaii’s island shores can now be heard live, courtesy of underwater
microphones placed near Puako, Hawaii by the Jupiter Research Foundation."
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Free and discounted ebooks
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:59:00 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
freebooksifter.com
blog.booksontheknob.org
openlibrary.org
onehundredfreebooks.com
dailycheapreads.com
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The Bundle of Holding
Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:00:21 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
These kinds of bundles are great value:
http://bundleofholding.com/
"The Bundle of Holding is live! It's a pay-what-you-like collection of
DRM-free ebook novels by famous roleplaying game designers, and it
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Kinetic toothpick sculpture of San Francisco
Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:17:16 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
Including a great video:
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/13/kinetic-toothpick-sculpture-of.html
"Scott Weaver is a San Francisco sculptor who spent 35 years building
the most stupendously gorgeously wonderful toothpick sculpture, a
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Kronos Quartet and the secret life of lemurs
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:12:13 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/14/kronos-quartet-and-the-secret.html
"Michael Hearst of the delightful Unusual Creatures project has just
released his first episode of 'Songs for Unusual Creatures.' The premier
features the Kronos Quartet and the Aye-Aye, an unusual kind of primate!"
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Eric Standley’s Intricate Laser Cut Stained Glass Paper Windows
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:15:33 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://hifructose.com/2013/01/14/eric-standleys-intricate-laser-cut-stained-glass-paper-windows/>
"Eric Standley works with hundreds of layers of colored paper creating
intricate laser cut stain glass windows. These beautifully constructed
works are made up of interlacing positive and negative spaces that seem
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Yarn Bombing
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:34:54 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
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The Illustrated Guide to (US) Law
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:26:12 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://lawcomic.net/guide/?page_id=5
A great introduction to understanding the legal system.
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A More Resilient Species
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:38:16 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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A Novelist and His Brother Sell Out Carnegie Hall
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:19:16 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://youtu.be/rR2tsNxw0U8
http://nyti.ms/13EQ1BX
"Thanks in no small part to a YouTube channel he started with his
younger brother, the best-selling author John Green enjoys literary
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Free culture and the gender gap
Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:21:15 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381>
"Despite the values of freedom and openness, the free culture movement’s
gender balance is as skewed (or more so) as that of the computing
culture from which it arose. Based on the collection and analysis of
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For Amusement Only: the life and death of the American arcade
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:11:10 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-death-of-the-american-arcade-for-amusement-only>
Great article on game arcades. Australian arcades have a similar
history, though they lasted a bit longer than in the US because they
also featured a lot of Japanese games with hardware you couldn't easily
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Xpogo
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:12:55 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
http://youtu.be/mfbuJO5JalM
Crazy but impressive! (There are also videos from other cities around
the world.)
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The Weirdness That is Mid-Century Cooking
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:13:41 +1100
Katherine Phelps <muse [at] glasswings.com.au>
Every so often I will crack out one of the sillier recipes my mother passed on
to me just to amuse friends at a dinner party. The woman in the below articles
is engaging with the best and the worst of 1950s cooking. Some of the dishes
are hilariously awful. Some are surprisingly good. A number take me back to my
childhood.
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