Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Scrolling back through Goats I came across this line: "Theoretically, how much porn could you store on a fish?"

Hmm. Any cog-sci folk around who'd be able to hazard a guess to the approximate storage capacity of a fish. And would there be any difference if we scaled up from goldfish to koi?

And yes, I have only just discovered Goats. Personally I blame the codepope.

No - it's a Lego Death Star!


Note the Star Destroyer to scale!

marypcb wonders if the plans for making it come inside a Lego R2 unit...

From Japan (where else), we find these rather nifty hard cases for the iPod Shuffle, including a rather fetching G5 alike...



As Bender would say: "Bite my shiny metal iPod!"

"XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it."

Spotted on in the XML conference on CiX, and attributed to Chris Maden...

Today's realisation (when confronted by a hungry Maine that won't back down): All Cats Are Cartman.

"Screw you, I'm having dinner!"

An interesting collection of images of New Yorks that never were, and never will be, on Gridskipper. Zeppelins docking on the Empire State Building, bridges crossing the river instead of tunnels...

Now, if only Gaudi had built his hotel...



A quick Google later and I found more pictures of Gaudi's plans for a organic building the size of the Eiffel Tower.

One of six dining rooms, this one dedicated to Europe. As Matamala remembers it, it was to accommodate four hundred people, who would dine to music played by a large symphony orchestra. The polychrome decoration was to have a mythological theme. The ceiling would be supported by Atlantes and Nereids, symbolically representing the universe of the galaxies.

And maybe ILM would have riffed of some other architect for their "Return of the Jedi" starship designs.