Stolen Descartes letter found

Back in the 1800s, some Italian mathematician stole a bunch of Descartes's letters from the Institut de France. So far, only 45 out of the 72 documents have resurfaced. Recently one of the letters was discovered in the special collections of a certain college in Pennsylvania, a place you may have heard of before...

Songs

MC Lars - True Player for Real

Legos = the best

Nathan should totally add this into his fallout game... which is totally going to happen some day.

Campaign ad

Perhaps the funniest campaign ad I've ever seen.

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Dante's Internet

In case you wanted to know what hell looks like.

(Bonus points if you catch the science fiction reference.)

Hodgmania

If you haven't yet seen John Hodgeman's nerdtacular Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner speech, check it out!

Music Friday 2/12/10

Muse - Invincible

Unhappy Hipsters

Applying perceived cultural attitudes to lifestyles magazine copy.

Midweek music extra!

Here is the video for Hard n Phirm's fantastically mathematical song "Pi"

Music Video of the week - Feb 5

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

Metal sucks, Foam for the win

Some awesome science-y links for you science types out there...

btw...since I'm completely computer illiterate, how do you post a link using regular text? Cause thats cool, and I would like to learn how? Until then enjoy my links in the old fashioned way...copied and pasted.

article:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/02/01/researcher-creates-strongest-metal-foam-ever/

youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFcs25KmMc

Animal Research

So I work in a lab at the university, and while we don't work with animals there are other labs in the building that do. And one of them posted the following poster in the kitchen, which I thought was hilarious. It's the Advanced Animal Directive, like the advanced medical directive only a terrible idea. The link is here. check out the directive there, it's a pdf otherwise I'd link it directly.