Category Archives: Temporary Sanity

Quick links, quips, and quotes

What would it be like to photosynthesize?

Great post at The Quantum Biologist, found via @inktea on Twitter. The Green Man: “I think I could forgo all the meat in the world to know what it’s like to step outside, turn my face and palms to the sun, and be fully nourished in … Read More

The Apple Tablet?

Just because I totally want an iPad doesn’t mean I can’t laugh my ass off at this. Francesco is delightfully twisted sometimes.

Monkey underwear is the cure for all fears…

Pearls Before Swine.

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It wasn’t the witches…

Dilbert comic strip for 05/22/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive.

Note to self: The director’s cut of Legend sucks ass. Seriously.

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Happy Belated Birthday, Darwin!

I found this great image via Conscientious and had to post it. Yes, I know I’m about 16 days late to make this timely, but I’ll blame that on camp and being sick.

Spices…

… they cause insanity, you know!

Eli, no!

Eli, no! – on Flickr. Update: the creator of the Eli, No! book has evidently gotten so much attention from various, much-bigger-than-mine blogs, that it looks like she has a book deal in the works. Congrats! And I may just have to buy one when/if … Read More

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And the Pursuit of Happiness…

Maira Kalman, illustrator and author, has started a pictoral blog on the NYTimes site called “And the Pursuit of Happiness.” Her first piece is a visual journal of her feelings about the inauguration. Sometimes pictures really do say more than words. Her pictures (and some … Read More

Clockwork trilobyte!

Oh. My. God!!!! I need one. For really-real. Gotta have it. ‘Cause I’ve always loved trilobytes. And clockwork just makes everything better! Trilo Temporalis, the clockwork trilobyte – found via Boing Boing Gadgets.