On the Thin Ice
Easter Craiglockhart Hill Nature Reserve, Edinburgh, 8 February 2015.
Honk. (Mouseover: Quack.)
Easter Craiglockhart Hill Nature Reserve, Edinburgh, 8 February 2015.
Honk. (Mouseover: Quack.)
Chocolates that represent Japanese onomatopoeic words to describe texture.
Half of the DNA found on the New York subway matches no known organism.
Funding cuts in Australia prompt young scientist to reject prestigious fellowship.
The joy of a deadpan Amazon review when you least expect it. Nice punchline in the comments.
Google’s romance with librarians is over.
Cory Doctorow: It would be madness to hand over our archives to VCs (Boing Boing).
All my blogs are dead (“so I’ve started backing up my work”: oh dear, oh dear).
Social media explained with donuts.
Has instant news left us hungry for slow-burning stories?
Why did everybody do the Harlem Shake?
Twitter CEO addresses the platform’s persistent harassment issues.
Mark Ames of The eXile on the geometry of censorship and satire.