So I was browsing the CNN news site and stumbled upon some minor headline in a sidebar which read "Students find naked images in German textbook", and made me curious as to what exactly was so outrageous, because you don't find that many naked humans outside of biology and art textbooks in my experience, and sometimes art appears as illustration ( Read more... )

I wonder whether I can blame this one on the fever ( Read more... )

After this inspiring post in scans_daily I just couldn't resist and made a few icons from the "The Rainbow Batman" story, published in Detective Comics #241 from 1957. He's "a rainbow of dazzling action," and who could resist that? Feel free to modify them in any way you want, but please comment if you take one.

( some Rainbow Batman icons )

Since Ash Wednesday is coming closer, you run across carnival coverage more frequently when zapping through the tv programs, though I think this year Lent starts early March so there's yet a short reprieve until it's going to be truly inescapable once you turn on the tv. Around here it's historically a thoroughly protestant area, so there is no ( Read more... )

That's a direct quote from a slide (which was in English because originally it was part of a research presentation) from the atom optics lecture I heard this morning. This just shows that you can find interesting quotes almost anywhere. Of course the slide had nothing to do with evolution in a biological sense or with doughnuts in a literal sense, ( Read more... )