More Matchbook Drawings by Jason D’Aquino

 

By EDW Lynch on October 24, 2012

Jason D’Aquino, artist and self-described “miniaturist,” makes tiny drawings on vintage matchbooks. The drawings are so small that he adds white highlights with a single hair brush. We first wrote about his matchbook drawings back in April.

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Neal Stephenson talks REAMDE with lawyers, security experts

Cory Doctorow at 8:12 am • 4 •

Here's a video from a recent U Washington Law School panel discussion with Neal Stephenson regarding his video-game crime-thriller REAMDE. The law school assembled cyber lawyers, security experts from the computer science department, and Stephenson himself, and discussed the real-world implications for the sorts of business, technology, security and crime described in the (excellent) book. This video would probably work better as an MP3 -- there's not much in the video track beyond a nearly static image of the panel -- but the actual content is fascinating.

A possible medical diagnosis of zombies, just in case they end up being real

Jamie Frevele at 8:43 am • 6 •

(Video link) If you're a logical, overthinking zombie fan, then this is the TED-Ed video for you! Tim Verstynen and Bradley Voytek of the Zombie Research Society have narrated a short, animated video outlining possible medical explanations for why zombies are zombies. You might think this is silly, because zombies are fictional... until you see some wobbly humanoid lurking in your backyard, eating a squirrel. I just want you to have the information you might desperately need.

Galaxy of Gore: 10 Must-See Horror Flicks Set in Space

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When you think about it, deep space – with its vast expanse of nothingness – actually might be scarier than any psychopathic killer in the woods or blood-drinking demon. Yet the farthest reaches of the cosmos don't

balloon animal video tutorial

 

For Rookie, Ira Glass of This American Life gives a detailed and entertaining balloon animal video tutorial to teenage girls. After the tutorial, he answers teen’s personal questions for Rookie’s Ask a Grown Man series. We have previously posted about the Ask a Grown Man series on Laughing Squid

Mini Bipedal Robot Walking on a Tightrope

Japanese robot enthusiast Dr. Guero has adapted a miniature Kondo KHR-3HV bipedal robot to walk on a tightrope. Dr. Guero customized the arms to aid in balancing and added grooves to the feet to help the robot slide across the rope. We previously wrote about Dr. Geuro’s bicycle riding robot.

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Original contract for Moby-Dick

Lowering the Bar has a copy of Herman Meville's publishing contract for Moby-Dick, made 161 years ago between Harper and Brothers of the city of New York, Publishers and Melville. Melville got 50% of the profits (which seems fishy to me, given that the publisher has near-total leeway in accounting for its expenses-before-profit on the book), which apparently amounted to $556.37