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I was just looking up minimal surfaces again for my project, and I found this lovely image of the Costa-Hoffman-Meeks Minimal Surface.
Anyway, imagine this surface, but knitted into a single piece of seamless fabric, with rings for tension at the top, bottom, and center, about 8 feet tall, suspended with wires in a gallery. […]

Lookie what I bought! Plus a small spool (3 oz) of purple yarn to practice with.
I have no one to teach me, and I’ve been wanting to learn for almost precisely two years - I have an email from 2002, from someone I was discussing it with. Ultimately, I want to knit sculptures […]

Kraft Philadelphia Snack Bites (Turtle).
Yum. Yummification.
Sold individually for 51¢ with tax, these are a masterpiece of corporate mouthfeel. silky synthetic substitutes for chocolate, cream cheese, and caramel melt into a delicate fusion. I was massively impressed. I ran back into the store and bought another one.
nutrition facts

Doritos Rollitos Zesty Taco!
The link […]

(originally posted as a comment to a friend’s blog entry about the fictitious Camel Spider)

However, there is one that you might actually have to worry about. You’re pretty safe in California, but the Brown Recluse is real. It doesn’t kill you, but the bite is dis. gus. ting. I read a story […]

I just put a 1.2 Ghz upgrade card into my 400 Mhz powermac, the one I found at a thrift store for $60. The upgrade was $400, could have gotten 800 Mhz for $270, but was convinced to splurge.
Anyway, wow wow, a lot of stuff that I thought was net-intensive (loading a bunch of […]

Surgeons implant glittering shapes into eye’s membrane
The procedure involves inserting a 0.13 inch wide piece of specially developed jewelry — the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart — into the eye’s mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of $610 to $1,232.

Ah, I found a link, but I’ll also paste it in. (another good link) (a nice essay, Thinking in Pictures)
Wendy Jacob: The Squeeze Chair Project is a unique collaboration between artist Jacob and Temple Grandin, an acclaimed animal scientist. Grandin, who designed humane livestock handling facilities to restrain and calm animals, is also autistic, and […]

Whoa. Awesome pic of Saturn from the Cassini probe.