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Wednesday, 19 March 2025

PoetiCal

quote [ The only way to access this publication is through a calendar app. To subscribe, select the app you use below and follow the instructions. ]

This seemed like an interesting project.
[SFW] [art] [+1 Original]
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Man Ray's Mathematics Objects (1934-36)

quote [ When Max Ernst saw this series of 19th Century wood, metal, wire, and plaster forms in Paris, he rushed to share them with Man Ray ]

It's a Man Ray kind of sky
[SFW] [art] [+1 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@10:17amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 12 March 2025

The hardest working font in Manhattan

quote [ A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of ? and one you probably saw earlier today. ]

Making my life a different style of font
[SFW] [art] [+6]
[by ScoobySnacks@9:52amGMT] [4 comments]

Monday, 3 March 2025

This Lego Brick Is About the Size of a Human White Blood Cell. It Just Became the World?s Smallest Sculpture

quote [ Created by microscopic artist David A. Lindon, the record-breaking sculpture measures just 0.00099 by 0.00086 inches and can?t be seen with the human eye ]

Time to build, LEGO
[SFW] [art] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:04amGMT] [3 comments]

Saturday, 1 March 2025

Grill With the Pearl Earring.

Goofy joke that washed through an infosec feed.
[SFW] [art] [+1 Funny]
[by Paracetamol@6:54pmGMT] [0 comments]



Thursday, 27 February 2025

I bought hundreds of Cold War-era military slides on eBay

quote [ An overview of Soviet ICBM placements, with elegant glowing orange text on a solid black mass of Russia, reminds me of the Vignelli subway map. Then you remember these were basically the onboarding materials for a violent imperial hegemon at the height of its 20th century superpower, and you start feeling weird looking at the slides so much and put them away for a little. ]

Interesting story on art and power and hoarding and whatnot. You can browse the full collection here.

Via a post on Beautiful Public Data
[SFW] [art] [+2]
[by Paracetamol@6:35amGMT] [0 comments]

Thursday, 13 February 2025

A one-pixel-wide font that exploits subpixels.

Seeing the recycling machine at work: This quotes a reddit thread on /r/interestingasfuck that has no source .. while searching on this reveals a 2018 boingboing.net post pointing to the actual source: a 2008 website! Leaving the mastodon link because it features some experimentation on modern screens.
[SFW] [art] [+1 Underrated]
[by Paracetamol@6:28pmGMT] [0 comments]

Sunday, 29 December 2024

THE 88?31 ARCHIVE

quote [ Back in March I scanned through a terabyte of old geocities sites with the goal of finding *all* the 88x31 buttons. Recently, I realised that I didn't scan for all the geocities subsites (e.g. de.geocities.com, br.geocities.com, etc). I've fixed that mistake and have added 1.8k new 88x31 buttons ]

of course, there's also CYBER VANGUARD (thumb source), textfiles.com and so on..

(quote)
[SFW] [art] [+3]
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Saturday, 28 December 2024

William Heath Robinson?s Wacky Inventions

quote [ William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple objectives. ]

Eyeball maneuvering excercises on some sort of Rube Goldberg cartoons. The article links a thorough collection at wiki commons
[SFW] [art] [+1 Funny]
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Wednesday, 11 December 2024

?Maya blue?: The mystery dye recreated two centuries after it was lost

quote [ A ceramicist retraces his Maya roots to recreate a long-lost pre-Hispanic pigment that survived for over a millennium. ]

Maya blue, he paints the sky
[SFW] [art] [+4 Interesting]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:03amGMT] [0 comments]



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