SimLife
Avida and the evolution of complexity. The Creationists hate Avida because it has proved that complex compound organs (or in this case, code) can evolve rather than having to be created in one leap.
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Daily archives: February 18, 2005
Fontspotter
Typographica’s favourite fonts of 2004.
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Whale bone?
A concise history of the Elizabethan corset.
I’m actually looking for images of 17th century peasants, but somehow I came across this instead.
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Ear Ear
Severed ear found outside Strangeways.
Detectives want to make sure it is human ear after a similar find a number of years ago of what was thought to be a human finger turned out to be a sausage.
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Clever Glass
Vanadium dioxide coated glass can switch from transparent to reflective (of infra red) at a set outside temperature. Thus on a winter day it could allow all light through, for as much warming and SAD treatment as possible, whilst on a summer day it could reflect IR as soon as it reached 25C. This could lead to huge savings on air conditioning. Coupled with planned ventilation, it could do away with it all together.
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Sticky Death
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The Orientalist
This book sounds interesting. The link to a website about it popped up in my Google Ads, of all places.
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Photo Friday
This week’s theme is Rural. Where do I begin…..
And, because hunting with hounds has been illegal since last night
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