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Aspiring creative, nerd, geek, dork, art snob and all-round dabbler. Bits and pieces that tickle my fancy go here.

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“ Some people online are trying to flout Dunbar’s number, to become connected and actual friends with tens of thousands of people at once. And guess what? It doesn’t scale. You might be able to stretch to 200 or 400, but no, you can’t effectively engage at a tribal level with a thousand people. You get the politician’s glassy-eyed gaze or the celebrity’s empty stare. And then the nature of the relationship is changed. ”

Seth’s Blog: Dunbar’s Number isn’t just a number, it’s the law (via superamit)

Retro coziness.

(via boopsie.daisy)

“ My friend Ben Tippett has been thinking about Superman’s powers from a physics perspective, and came up with a theory that all of his myriad powers: flight, x-ray vision, super hearing, cold breath, heat vision, lifting buildings over his head, catching Lois without breaking all her bones, etc, can be explained as manifestations of one power: the ability to manipulate the inertia of matter, both his own and matter that he comes in contact with. ”

Dinosaur Comics

There’s a whole scientific paper linked from the page.

(via nickdouglas) (via mikehudack)

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The entire piece is a must read:

The First Marriage - NYTimes.com - Magazine Preview

As a first-time candidate, Barack could be stiff; friends remember him talking to voters with his arms folded, looking defensive. Michelle warmed everyone up, including her husband. “She is really Bill, and he is really Hillary,” one friend recently put it. But like Hillary Clinton — and countless other political wives — Michelle sometimes took on the role of enforcer. If a volunteer promised to gather 300 petition signatures, “299 did not work because 300 was the goal,” Harwell says. “You met the wrath of Michelle.” (via savingpaper)