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It’s interesting that The Blanton’s “no...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:33:00 -0500

It’s interesting that The Blanton’s “no photography” symbol shows a camera from about ten years ago. #iconography #nophotography http://bit.ly/10Cnfkw

I got my photo taken with Cassius Clay! (or at least a selfie in...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:33:23 -0500

I got my photo taken with Cassius Clay! (or at least a selfie in a Rauschenberg.) #utexas #Blanton #selfie http://bit.ly/188gHML

It’s Bike to Work Day, so of course UTPD was out ticketing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:32:47 -0500

It’s Bike to Work Day, so of course UTPD was out ticketing cyclists that roll through stop signs. Nevermind that motorists get away with it routinely. #UTPD #utexas #cycling #cyclingadvocacy http://bit.ly/16sr2pm

betaknowledge: The Electric Taste Machine by the Mixed Reality...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:57 -0500

betaknowledge:

The Electric Taste Machine by the Mixed Reality Lab:

The digital taste interface, a control system, is developed to stimulate the taste sensations digitally on the tongue. The effect of most persuading factors such as current, frequency, and temperature have been accounted for stimulating the tongue non-invasively. The experimental results suggested that sourness and saltiness are the main sensations that could be evoked while there are evidences of sweet and bitter sensations too.

Whoa, this is wild.

This image just doesn’t get old. I don’t even like...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:41:37 -0500

This image just doesn’t get old. I don’t even like dogs.

This combination bike rack and sculpture, ‘Stem Rack,’ about 100...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:50:53 -0500

This combination bike rack and sculpture, ‘Stem Rack,’ about 100 feet east of Congress Avenue on East Second Street, is meant to suggest the aquatic plants along Lady Bird Lake. (via Downtown sculptures are bike racks in disguise | www.mystatesman.com)

I’m guessing that this student had to be out her dorm room...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:33:00 -0500

I’m guessing that this student had to be out her dorm room this morning, which left her sitting out in the rain with all of her stuff. http://bit.ly/101w9oL

brighttypewriter: Ah, UT: Truth - Knowledge - A Great Tan Now...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:05:12 -0500

brighttypewriter:

Ah, UT: Truth - Knowledge - A Great Tan

Now there’s a UT slogan we haven’t seen before! From a 1983 t-shirt. Photo by H. Michael Karshis.

This is pretty excellent. I’d totally get that shirt if they still made them - especially if it didn’t have the part about “a great tan.”

As I walked toward the library, I abruptly felt something warm...

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:33:16 -0500

As I walked toward the library, I abruptly felt something warm plop on my face: a bird had pooped on me and my new glasses. I’m told this is good luck, but ew. #ew #eww #goodluck #superstition #ew http://bit.ly/14kFkDQ

"Sigh. So last night, I was all excited and optimistic about what the introduction of Cristin Milioti..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:41:26 -0500

“Sigh. So last night, I was all excited and optimistic about what the introduction of Cristin Milioti as the Mother (watch the video below if you missed it) would do for the show as it headed into the home stretch. Surely, I thought, even Bays and Craig Thomas wouldn’t show us the Mother’s face in this episode and then drag out her meeting with Ted until the last episode of the series, right? Surely this would force the series to get its act together and move forward at the end, right? Wrong. At the end of a long statement CBS put out this morning, Bays said, “Our ninth season will tell the epic story of the longest wedding weekend ever. We hope you like it. Next stop, Farhampton…” Sigh. They’re going to do it. They are really going to stretch Robin and Barney’s wedding weekend out over the entire final season.”

- After How I Met Your Mother finale, what comes next? (via anagoeswest)

I really do have better things to think about, but this sounds really stupid. It’s a shame that such a cute show got so lame.

cortexifansquint: Emily & Zooey making the same faces...

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:14:54 -0500

cortexifansquint:

Emily & Zooey making the same faces (x)

These gifs are at once creepy and amusing.

Lessig Blog, v2: The unintended consequences of bike lanes

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:50:13 -0500

Lessig Blog, v2: The unintended consequences of bike lanes:

lessig:

The Boston area is working hard to add bike lanes wherever they can. As a biker, in principle, I like the idea.

But as I’ve watched a busy stretch of road convert from no bike lanes to bike lanes, here’s what I’ve noticed most: more people park illegally. Somehow the bike lane operates as a…

Yes, weaving between parked cars is very dangerous because overtaking motorists don’t expect bikes to pop out from the front of a car. (even if they expect you to weave if they’re behind you.) In Austin, this is why the parking should be taken off of Shoal Creek or the bike-lane-like paint should be removed.

I’m not sure I learned anything from this image, but...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:57:51 -0500

I’m not sure I learned anything from this image, but it’s cool to see bike parts arranged like this.

(via Things Come Apart, 50 Disassembled Objects in 21,959 Individual Parts by Todd McLellan | Colossal)

Wow, $1234.35 is an astonishingly bad price for an Android...

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:33:02 -0500

Wow, $1234.35 is an astonishingly bad price for an Android tablet. http://bit.ly/18BdbLY

This men’s room should come with a seizure warning....

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:32:50 -0500

This men’s room should come with a seizure warning. #utexas http://bit.ly/12mUx5T

This is so great. (via Chris Ware’s Mothers’ Day...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:14:18 -0500

This is so great.

(via Chris Ware’s Mothers’ Day Cover : The New Yorker)

Chris Ware’s Mothers’ Day cover for The New Yorker...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:18:45 -0500

Chris Ware’s Mothers’ Day cover for The New Yorker prompted me to dig out my copy of Jimmy Corrigan. He inscribed it after a comics panel at The Free Library of Philadelphia. http://bit.ly/ZLKS7a

(via AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart)

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:58:09 -0500

(via AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart)

This diagram on how to become comfortable with transportation...

Thu, 09 May 2013 07:55:01 -0500

This diagram on how to become comfortable with transportation cycling is excellent.

(via Bikeyface » Small Steps)

"There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:27:48 -0500

“There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we make concrete, or at least reconstructable in the minds of our readers, the terrible, true passions that cross telephony lines? Right now my field must tackle describing a world where falling in love, going to war and filling out tax forms looks the same; it looks like typing.”

- ACM Web Science talk, as written | Quinn Said (via new-aesthetic)