I have nothing to say, really.

Fuck off.

The world’s only immortal animal

23 Mar 2010

By Dominik Schwind

HOLY SHIT! They're going to take over the planet!!!111oneleven!!!111

Dunning–Kruger effect

26 Jan 2010

By Dominik Schwind

Dunning–Kruger effect

I have seen this a lot. "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"

Leaf-like sea slug feeds on light

25 Jan 2010

By Dominik Schwind

Leaf-like sea slug feeds on light

This is… awesome? I guess. "It can complete its entire life cycle, including reproduction, just on photosynthesis."

The Mystery Of The Fruit Fly Penis Solved With Lasers

08 Jan 2010

By Dominik Schwind

The Mystery Of The Fruit Fly Penis Solved With Lasers

To anyone who doubts modern science still pursues essential lines of inquiry into the most pressing questions of our time, we present this resounding rebuttal. Two fearless truth seekers used lasers to figure out why fruit fly penises look weird.

Styrofoam Androids and Cowbells at Home Depot

06 Jan 2010

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for January 5th from 11:10 to 23:01:

Kepler telescope spots ‘Styrofoam’ planet – A giant planet with the density of Styrofoam is one of a clutch of new exoplanets discovered by NASA's Kepler telescope.
iPhone vs Android: It is Happening Again – Google's support of Apple's iPhone helped make a great and innovative Apple product more successful, and now Google is doing a Microsoft and driving its Android environment hard with new hardware and a more open approach that will create an entire ecosystem of incented hardware makers, software providers and carriers to make Android successful.
Now you can play Foursquare anywhere – Attention, suburbanites: You, too, can be the mayor of your local Home Depot.
YouTube – Boise State girl tearin’ it up on the cowbell! [720p] – Happy Cowbell girl is happy.
Music Blog Zeitgeist of 2009 / The Hype Machine – Forget the magazine editors & big label marketing budgets. This is the best music from 2009 chosen by the most passionate music fans alive: music bloggers.

Bookmarks for August 11th through August 13th

13 Aug 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for August 11th through August 13th:

Google Reader adds “Send To” feature – Neat.
True Blood paper dolls – You've found it : The "True Blood" Paper Doll Collection
Jugendkultur: Wie ein Fantasy-Spaß zum "Killerspiel" gemacht wurde – SPIEGEL ONLINE – Nachrichten – Netzwelt –
How to create and apply a patch with Subversion – Ariejan.net – The hole and the patch should be commensurate.
Ten things we don’t understand about humans – New Scientist – Other animals dream, too. Just watch a dog "run" in his sleep.

Bookmarks for July 29th through August 2nd

02 Aug 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for July 29th through August 2nd:

law blog» Archiv » Die Meinungsfreiheit als Sondermüll – Die böse Absicht darf mittlerweile unterstellt werden.
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses. – Especially cool: the "font-face kits"
Salon.com | Why America is flunking science –
Formel Eins: Michael Schumacher gibt Comeback –
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule –

Bookmarks for May 1st through May 5th

05 May 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for May 1st through May 5th:

Retropolis – the Future That Never Was – Oh noes! Someone stop me!
Classical Geek Theatre: Regarding The Jonas Brothers – If 'N Sync was a punk rocker's Abu Ghraib then The Jonas Brothers are the punk rocker's Auschwitz.
Lily’s Wai Sek Hong: Char Siew – Hungry!
Free Windows 7 for a year – Yay?
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters –

The Rise and Fall of Arduino’s Tremendous Tunnel

25 Mar 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for March 22nd through March 25th:

The Rise and Fall of TechCrunch : The Drama 2.0 Show – Quite a good write-up of the history of TechCrunch, soon to-be-forgotten Web 2.0 blog.
Rome’s Tremendous Tunnel: The Ancient World’s Longest Underground Aqueduct – Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria.
making a FON router speak serial to Arduino | EchoDitto Labs – I shall try this.
5 Ways ‘Common Sense’ Lies To You Everyday | Cracked.com – Usually cracked.com is rather silly. This time it's rather silly and yet interesting.
Twitter / Jack Dorsey: just setting up my twttr – First twitter message, evr?