Not Exactly Rocket Science : Blind man navigates obstacle course perfectly with no visual awareness This wasn't as amazing when I heard about it on the radio this morning as it is now. Good write-up too. Via Mindhacks (tags: science blindness)

There was a lovely segment on R4′s Saturday Live show at the weekend. Talking about the history of telling the time, the Greenwich Observatory’s time-keeper general described ticks, whirs, cuckoos and chimes as the ‘language of time passing’. That’s such a nice way of putting it. It also makes makes you think about how that [...]

Dave Gray's reading list visual thinking reading. it's the power of the picture, innit? russell, obviously (tags: visualization graphics reference theory infomatics) A Composer At The Edge Of Sound : NPR Music Tod Machover. This is beginning to feel like link robbery. Again via Russell (tags: music instruments hyperinstruments) YouTube – STS-124 Launch w/ Sound [...]

twak dot org: Stormr 0.2 turn your flickr stream into an open university programme. via yolise on flickr (tags: stormr photography flickr)

The Quietus | Features | It's A Question Of Mime: Play The Quietus' Album Cover Quiz Game I was rubbish at this (tags: music quiz mime) What's going on here then? | StreetWire (beta) really hope this works out. (via tomtaylor) (tags: maps uk community social) 100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest [...]

The year 2008 in photographs (part 1 of 3) – The Big Picture – Boston.com Wow. What all of these photos have in common is that they place you in the scene. I had at multiple heart-stopping moments going through these. (tags: inspiration photography 2008 news) oobject » 14 cameras that look just like guns [...]

Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality | I'm not even sure why I'm bookmarking this, let alone why I'm tagging it "plots". There's certainly a sense of macabre inevitability about it. (tags: fiction art theatre plots)

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } squares, originally uploaded by meltingman. I love the light at this time of year. As the sun stays low in even the midday sky, it seems to skid across the surfaces [...]

Quarkbase : Everything about a Website (tags: statistics web2.0 webdesign tools reference)