- Sep 11, 2008 1:43pm
- Electro Undone, simple tune I made playing around with Fruity Loops.
- Oct 30, 2007 1:14am
- Gossamer Wonders
sweet, warm touches -- delicate evening caress
once-proud leaf falls in the forests' heart
fading wild flower blanches in the wind
a lost spider's web wisps faraway
abandoned nest taken by childrens' hands
emerald grass yellowed in the briars
tragedies
can gods weep?
a bleeding heart fills the lungs with pain...
suffocating in compassion
laughter pulls skin apart
yet the expressionless live on?
to mock and scowl
forgetting that truth and beauty are lovers
they go on hailing the glory of the ends of flesh
but that which burns inside
swirls, quivers and flows
bare footed and fleshless
through the chest
and powerful, euphorically through the mind
no longer fearing love's formless beauty
spiral to the brink of truth
weep with purest sorrow;
that sensation known only by the tears
shed as wordless eulogy
for the gossamer wonders
- Jan 6, 2007 3:12pm
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 Dec 22, 2006 10:23am  (1 review) education, nature, photos, bizarre, wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird...
Hummingbird Hawkmoth
Enchanting Chimeric Hybrid
The Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth with a long proboscis, and is capable of hovering in place, making an audible humming noise. It looks remarkably like a hummingbird and feeds on flowers.
It seems to be really good at imitation, and even its eggs look like flower buds.
"Hummingbird Hawkmoth (macroglossum stellatarum)
Spotted between showers yesterday in Cambridgeshire. Only the second
time I've seen one of these. They really are like humming birds. "
Wiki Article
Flickr Photo Set
All Life Cycles Photographed
Science Info
BBC Site Info
BoingBoing Post
Video of a hummingbird hawkmoth feeding from a buddleia flower.
Another Youtube vid.
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- Zymoglyphic Museum - Xenophora
- Dec 22, 2006 6:40am
 (2 reviews) animals, nature, ocean, arts, oceanography http://www.zymoglyphic.org/exhibits/xeno... - Xenophora
at the Zymoglyphic Museum
"Marine snails of the genus Xenophora collect shells,
rocks, and other debris from their environment. They attach these
objects to their shells at intervals during the shell's growth.
Sometimes it creates a neat radiating pattern; sometimes the effect is
more that of a jumble of debris. The result for us in any case is that
their collections become little samplings of a variety of faraway
underwater realms.
 
It is not known to what extent an artistic sensibility plays a part in
this behavior. The ones who live in shallower water (where there is
enough light for them to be seen) probably use their collections for
camouflage. The ones that live in the deeper, dark waters, such as X. pallidula,
are believed to be motivated more by a desire to not to be sucked into
the viscous muck in which they live. Attaching extensions to their
shells spreads out the shell's surface area and helps prevent the
animal from sinking. The additions may also strengthen the snail's
relatively thin shell."
  
Xenophoridae Ecology Page
Zymoglyphi Museum Page
Xenophoridae at SpecimenShells.net
Paleobiology Database Info
via 
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- 6-Foot Walk-on-Water Ball at Hammacher Schlemmer
- Dec 22, 2006 6:13am (1 review) people, shopping, nature, fun, activity http://www.hammacher.com/publish/72182.a...
Water Balls
Human Hamsterballs let you Walk on Water!
 
"...the kids can do it easily enough for me its not so easy , you need
balance, coordination and keep them feet a moving as you go , lean
forward and your waterball walking"
You just go in throught the zipper, and can apparently stay inside for many hours without needing to get out for more air!
Kids in Brazil Playing at the Beach in Waterballs (Video)
Buy a Waterball for $275 (I'll pass for now...)
Album of Waterball Photos
Old School Water Walking
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- Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dec 19, 2006 2:13pm (24 reviews) writing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_Man...
- The Voynich Manuscript
"The World's Most Mysterious Book"
"The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book with incomprehensible contents. It is thought to have been written between approximately 1450 and 1520 by an unknown author in an unidentified script and unintelligible language.
Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame (all of whom failed to decipher a single word). This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into a famous subject of historical cryptology, but it has also given weight to the theory that the book is simply an elaborate hoax %u2014 a meaningless sequence of arbitrary symbols."
 
 
Wiki Article (Comprehensive)
Gallery of Online Images from the Manuscript
Yale University High Resolution Image gallery
Voynich.nu - Great Informational resource
Scientific American Article
World's Most Mysterious Book May Be a Hoaxe - Nature Journal
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- judefas blog - StumbleUpon
- Dec 16, 2006 10:16pm (338 reviews) stumblers http://judefa.stumbleupon.com/
- Oh, I am so embarassed! I forgot to review my friend Judefa! Well, time to fix that..
Judefa
"I am not the patron saint of lost causes,
but if you feel desperation or hopelessness in your life,
you may have stumbled on a friend.
Or at least a helpful article about THIS WHOLE SU GAME."
Jude cares about Stumble Upon, and is the author of a fine article on the subject (click the "Whole SU Game" link above) and a is a great friend, reviewer of up-and-coming stumblers ("She's been on here for nearly six months and no-one's reviewed her?
How queer this place can be, thought Alice ..."), and an internet treasure explorer of the highest quality. Not checking out Jude would be a loss! Please do, you won't regret it. Heres a sampler of Jude's postings:
Tor Lundvall's "beautiful, melancholy and deep" music
Ronald Reagan the cigarette seller
"A better way of searching for, bookmarking and sharing videos.
I haven't been a huge fan of internet videos till now..."
"Ommer published a book called 1000 Families, which is entirely pictorial, in 2000. I bought that at the time and pored over it many times.
The follow-up, Transit, is far more intriguing as it includes tales about those
people, maps, notes, photos of where they live and a ton of ephemera."
"Here are 8 times you might need a break from blogging:
#2 when
everything you do is `blogable' - at the opposite end of the spectrum
to bloggers block is where everything you do, say and think becomes a
potential post. You start seeing ideas for posts in your breakfast
cereal, start blogging about conversations with your wife, write rants
on the postman being late..... If this is happening to you it might be
time to step back from blogging a little and get a life"
Yesterday's News
Henrik Simonsen
Scott Cranmer
Check it out!
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- Flickr: Jonas Thoméns Photostream
- Dec 9, 2006 5:10pm (2 reviews) people, beauty, nature, photos, photography http://flickr.com/photos/jonasthomen/
- this and that
(Flickr Digging...Just Some Great Photos I'd Like to Share)
Jonas Thomén
A very creative Finnish photo student!
Green Grass of Tunnel
If there were Elves...
Groovy Colours
Fantasy
The Marshland
("The Finnish word for Finland is Suomi, and directly translated to
English that would be Marshland.. This is a yet another sunset from
that land.. =) ")
Port of Jakobstad with Aurora Borealis
Aurora in Fog
Aurora Borealis
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- Nudibranch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dec 8, 2006 7:19am (3 reviews) animals, photos, ocean, beauty, bizarre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch
   
Sea Slugs
Another bizarre but beautiful form of life (seems learning about strange life is becoming a hobby of mine, so I might as well share =D ).
Coincidentaly, my favorite artistic biologist Ernst Haeckel also created a painting of these creatures:
 
"These sea slugs are soft-bodied snails. Nudibranchs have cephalic (head) tentacles, which are sensitive to touch, taste, and smell. Club-shaped rhinophores detect the odors. Nudibranchs typically deposit their eggs within a gelatinous spiral:
They are carnivorous. Some feed on sponges, others on hydroids, others on bryozoans, and some are cannibals, eating other sea slugs, or, on some occasions, members of their own species. There is also a group that feeds on tunicates and barnacles.Body forms can vary wildly.They occur worldwide at all depths, but they reach their greatest size and variation in warm, shallow waters.
Among them, you can find the most colorful creatures on earth.
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