Month: March 2007

Lightsticks… in the latrine

Lightsticks… in the latrine

Steve sent in what I thought would completely bizarre and perhaps gross, but it turns out it’s quite beautiful, he writes – Last night I opened and poured a red and green lightstick in the toilet and photographed it. I find the images to be surprisingly like deep space nebula photos. Lightsticks In The Toilet […]

Speed Up Mail In OS X

Speed Up Mail In OS X

Cory over at BoingBoing writes: The Mail.app fan-site Hawk Wings has a great tip for Mail.app users — a simple command that many are swearing by as a means of evincing a gigantic speedup in Mail.app’s performance. If you’re suffering through the same hell I lived with back in my PowerBook days, you might give […]

The chain reaction

The polyreactory assemblage of contemplation, gadgetry, and exothermic liberation (from the Kircher Society)… January’s Inaugural Meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society concluded with Jesse Ferguson setting off a 20-ft. long Rube Goldberg-esque contraption that he had constructed across the length of the stage. The spring-loaded, balloon-popping, laser-emitting, semi-automatic-rubber-band-shooting, fireball-producing contraption was designed in Seattle, mailed […]