Eric Joyner paints retro-looking toy robots and donuts exclusively, like Too Many Choices II from 2008:

Red is less than 19 MPH.

What an arrogant bunch of vectors…. (Via httf)

Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists. And if UFOs are actually ball lightning, then does the X-Files ultimately owe its popularity to lightning storms?

In a fascinating bit of amateur lexical analysis, Stephen Von Worley created this color strata image, using data collected from XKCD‘s Color Survey:

Sadly, pistachio, a hue that’s notoriously difficult to pin down, is nowhere to be found. Spencer Finch will be disappointed.

If anyone’s interested in the actual linguistics behind color names, Berlin & Kay’s Basic Color Terms (Amazon link) is the seminal work, although I’m pretty sure they didn’t discover color names like baige [sic], puke, or butter yellow.

This infographic of one person’s sleep patterns over nine years is fascinating:

When normal people find something left behind, in a place of business (like a bar), that someone will likely want to have back (like an iPhone), they leave it with someone who works there (like the bartender). Then, the person who left it behind has a way to check if anyone has returned it. Taking it is stealing.

Gizmodo probably suspected that the prototype iPhone they bought was stolen. By now, they’ve made back the purchase price in page views, with a healthy return on top to help cover legal fees.

And if you think any of this will hurt the new iPhone’s sales, I have a bridg^H^H^H^H^Hphone to sell you.

I’m not sure how much I buy it, but this scathing critique of Farmville is a must read.

Finally received prints of my two new rapid-prototyped 3-d sculptures: a revised version of Trapped Outside:

And a three-dimensional, assemble-it-yourself version of the Union Jack Cube:

Very clever parody of web browsers as transportation technology:

But Safari as a fixed-gear? Really? At least make it a 24-speed with a carbon-fiber frame or something.