Results come from a process; if you aren't willing to stay with the process, acknowledge that the result will have to remain a fantasy--and that can be okay.

An inverted distribution of particles in available energy states has been created in the lab. This is deeply weird. It looks like thermodynamics-violating weird. If it's real and scalable, it may be world-changing.

Uptown Dark Lord Funk. (5-minute music video)

How to Become a Robot in 12 Easy Steps An interesting and affecting story linked from metahacker's LJ. TW for suicidal ideation.

Alex Feinman on the stupid "rules" our society foists on guys. Snarky, hyperbolic, and very pointful.

An excerpt:
Man Rule 1. If you don’t show it, you aren’t feeling it“Men aren’t allowed to have feelings.” This is, of course, inaccurate-men are allowed to have feelings, provided they show them in some sort of caricatured, over-the-top way. If ( Read more... )

Cat Pictures Please by Naomi Kritzer.

presto agitato

Ganked from zenten on G+, Panic! at the Disco covers "Bohemian Rhapsody"; I think they make it their own.

Ganked from goldsquare, An outstanding display of driving skill. The first little while is kind of ordinary, but then, a bit past the half-way mark, it gets incredible--the kind of thing one expects in CGI, not IRL.

There are stones which appear to push themselves around a dry lakebed in Death Valley, but nobody has caught them at it--until now.

Here are a couple of experimental results from FaceBook: one person Liked(tm) everything for 2 days; another person didn't Like(tm) anything for 2 weeks.

LJ doesn't have a Like(tm), +1(tm), or other such general-purpose one-click response option, so we have to, brace yourself, use our words here. This is rather likelier to involve thought, but ( Read more... )