Centripetal Notion// archive

You are at the archive for the July, 2006

Aural Fixation

Lately I’ve been hearing …

The Fountain

From director Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, Pi) comes The Fountain, in theaters the 13th of October.

Black Holes = Dark Energy Stars?

“Theoretical physicists have recently been frustrated by a bold hypothesis concerning black holes—specifically, that they don’t exist.”

Biomedical Image Awards 2006

“Selected by a team of expert judges from recent acquisitions by the Medical Photographic Library of the Wellcome Library, the winning images show a wide variety of subjects, most invisible to the naked eye, revealing new layers of complexity.”

9rules Redesign

Check out the new digs at 9rules, sporting a fresh, simplified design by Mike Rundle and a new feature called Notes which opens discussion to everyone.

Periodic Table of the Keys

Being a Modest Proposal as to a Tabular Arrangement of the Key Board employing a Natural Classification.

Superb Lyrebird

The Superb Lyrebird found near Australia’s south-eastern coast is extraordinarily gifted at mimicry — copying not only the calls of other birds but the sounds of humans in the forest as well, including camera shutters and chainsaws.

TEDTalks

I’ve been watching some of the TEDTalks video lately and it’s interesting, if not for the variety of people featured (Al Gore and Joshua Prince-Ramus (architect, Seattle Public Library), among others). New talks are released every week.

NatureFootage: HD Time-Lapse

Check out NatureFootage’s high definition (and relatively inexpensive) library of time lapse flowers, fruit, and vegetables.

Bryan Louie

Bryan’s dripping, flourishing, richly-textured organic style of illustration is … well, it’s just that. If you’ve seen the music video for Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” then you’re already familiar.

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