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The best Lady Gaga parody yet? Judge for yourself: I lay it out like they do in magazines check out this typeface it's like smoking nicotine (I love it) using Adobe's not the same without a Mac if it was lead it would be lined up on a track Oh yeah! Via Jennifer Ouellette. Read ...

As many of you know, I've been working for the past couple of years on youth internet health and education issues. While the stereotype is that younger = tech savvier, that's not strictly true. Younger kids may be better acquainted with the internet, may use it more, and may feel more ...

Product placement is old news, but just in case you're wondering how saturated films really are with implicit advertising, brandchannel.com's brandcameo-films index tells you which brands were featured where: It's hard to make audiences feel okay, and even good, about innocent people being ...

Thylacine Dingo Comparison Carl Buell In Slate, Matt Gaffney explains how the constraints of a given system - in this case crossword puzzles - may lead to suspiciously similar yet independent solutions. Gaffney wrote a Poe-themed crossword with the elements BRAVE NEW WORLD, INTRAVENOUS ...

Via 1o9 , a timelapse BBC video of hundreds of unbelievably colorful Antarctic invertebrate species swarming and devouring a seal carcass. It's beautiful but somewhat graphic - be warned, some people may find the giant worms in particular rather skin-crawling. (And I thought I ...

The beautiful 2009 Burning Man poster , by artists Corey and Catska Ench , portrays evolution as a fantasia of related patterns. Read the comments on this post...

I really wanted to go to the D is for Digitize conference in New York. I couldn't go, but Harry Lewis did, and according to him, the star was Daniel Reetz of DIYBookScanner.org : While everyone else at the conference was ruminating about whether Google had a library monopoly or whether ...

I encountered this jaw-dropping story , by one Emily Miller for AskMen.com, as the top "health link" on FoxNews this afternoon: It seems like a reverse sexism started to take hold as the feminist movement came about and equality for women began gaining ground. Some women use their girl-power ...

A few of my favorite holiday shopping suggestions from the past year of blogging. . . #1. Pandemic, the Board Game. Turn H1N1 into holiday fun for everyone! Already have Pandemic? Z-Man games has an upgrade pack. #2. Blue Barnhouse letterpress . Yeah, they're artistic and ...

Apparently this toy company needs a zoologist on staff. (Parents: this is the perfect gift to seriously confuse your pre-adolescent wanna-be biologist, and derail them into a more profitable career in law!) From FailBlog. Read the comments on this post...

fog 10 Steven Hight In the growling gray light (San Francisco still has foghorns), I collect the San Francisco Chronicle from the wet steps. I am so lonely I must subscribe to three papers - the Wall Street Journal , the New York Times , the San Francisco Chronicle . I remark their ...

There's a new humor presence on Twitter and Facebook : rejectedcards. The author says, "I'm a copywriter for a major greeting card company. I get bored and create cards I know we'll never print. These are those cards." Cards like. . . "Another Year, Same Birthday Question: (inside) Are ...

Reader Jake, who is always on top of good finds, alerted me this morning to this punning play on fall foliage by illustrator Christoph Niemann at the NYT: "Bio-Diversity." The full post is absolutely charming - go browse it if you have a few minutes. :) Read the comments on this post...

Pop quiz: this Google Trends chart represents searches for what word or phrase? Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

If I weren't so darn busy, I'd be tempted to read this book: As you can tell from the photo, I've been spending a lot of time in the library. Sorry for the low post volume - I have quite a bit to write about the Harvard Lab opening and other things, and hope to get back on the blog in a ...

Seen in Cambridge, MA: a red-eyed skeletal zombie hippo. Paint-your-own ceramics was never like this when I was a kid! Read the comments on this post...

Talk about ephemera - Willy Chyr makes bioart out of balloons! Check out his installation Balluminescence: Balluminescence - Lights, Balloons, Jellyfish! was commissioned by Science Chicago and was created for the program's finale signature event - LabFest! Millennium Park. An ...

Macro Detail from a print from Press NY. via Blue Barnhouse Unfortunately the Press NY website appears to be defunct, but this image should be in the new letterpress book being compiled over at Blue Barnhouse. Check out their blog for more info on the book! Read the comments on this ...

I'm currently attending the Grand Opening of the new Laboratory at Harvard University , for a special colloquium on Art, Science, and Creativity featuring David Edwards (author of ArtScience), Lisa Randall, and others. This is awesome. Stay tuned for a report tomorrow! Read the comments on ...

Louis Menand has a must-read article on what's wrong with graduate education in the Harvard Magazine: Lives are warped because of the length and uncertainty of the doctoral education process. Many people drop in and drop out and then drop in again; a large proportion of students never ...