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
again via Russell. amazing video
(tags: youtube earth [...]

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 selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere [...]

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
hella cool (via 2point8)
(tags: [...]

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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wall, originally uploaded by meltingman.

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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 of things like a skimming [...]

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