As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay of Fargo, North Dakota is the winner(?) of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest.
Colour Perception - e-chalk presents a rather amazing demonstration of how surrounding colours affect our perception of an object's appearance.
uncrate.com is a buyer's guide for male-targeted products.
And as we approach the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the HYDESim - High-Yield Detonation Effects Simulator. Chilling. The source information was from The Effects of Nuclear Weapons - I have a print edition of this book (a US Department of Defense document) from 1962. Very heady stuff. There's a PDF version online here.
Ever wondered about who does the stipple portraits of newsmakers and columnists in the Wall Street Journal? Wonder no more! It's Noli Novak.
The European Space Agency has captured a strange and beautiful image of an enormous phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea. (2 meg tiff file)