Sorcha's Scribblings

Random Coolness

• Found a very strange thing while trying to find out who McArdle is that they named a disease after him. Random surfing is so bizarre . . . .
• A Tokyo subway billboard that makes me miss Tokyo something awful. (By way of Delirium's Realm.)
• There's a website for everything.

Coolest thing I've seen today

Go to Zoomquilt. Go directly to Zoomquilt without passing GO. Just, go there. And if you can, choose the Flash version.

(Thanks to Alas, A Blog.)

It's in my house...

My home was invaded this weekend by the dreaded game, World of Warcraft. Here at Geek Central, lots of people play this game. Some of them even sleep from time to time. On our recent free day, we chose a day when the WoW servers were down most of the morning. People were, uh, disappointed.

Anyway, the graphics on this game are insanely cool. I like to watch someone else play so I can see the lovely art. (It's not art I would put on my wall, but it's quite lovely for a computer game.)

I'm thinking that it's not such a good thing to have this game in the house before I graduate. I should have held out until mid-June, I suppose.

Random coolness

• The Periodic Table of Dessert. (Thanks to Rebecca's Pocket.)
• Best physics lab report ever.
• Three ways to have fun with words.

State meme (for USAmericans)

Apparently I get all my memes from Cool Beans...

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bold the states you've been to, underline the states you've lived in and italicize the state you're in now...

Alabama / Alaska / Arizona / Arkansas / California / Colorado / Connecticut / Delaware / Florida / Georgia / Hawaii / Idaho / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Kentucky / Louisiana / Maine / Maryland / Massachusetts / Michigan / Minnesota / Mississippi / Missouri / Montana / Nebraska / Nevada / New Hampshire / New Jersey / New Mexico / New York / North Carolina / North Dakota / Ohio / Oklahoma / Oregon / Pennsylvania / Rhode Island / South Carolina / South Dakota / Tennessee / Texas / Utah / Vermont / Virginia / Washington / West Virginia / Wisconsin / Wyoming / Washington D.C /

Go HERE to have a form generate the HTML for you.

Random coolness, end of February edition

• This essay about whether a 19th century author long identified as African-American might actually have been white held my attention, even though I am not by any means an expert on any of the subjects it raises. (Via The Little Professor.)
• Legos and Escher, what a sublime combination! (I got it from Alas.)
• And finally, a remarkably silly pun.

Random coolness

Everything you ever wanted to know about US baby-naming statistics, in an interactive, graphical form.

How to crochet the Lorenz Butterfly (PDF document, with a lot of math at the front end, but actual crocheting instructions towards the end).

And this is not so much cool as it is random proof that the world is stranger than I could ever have imagined.