Fieggen’s shoelace technicalities
Friday, September 30th, 2005Ian Fieggen maintains a compendium of technical knowledge about shoelaces.
(Thanks to Mark Dionne for bringing this to our attention.)
Archive for September, 2005
Eva the head
Friday, September 30th, 2005A brief video about a bodyless robotic head named Eva is available from NASA.
The brush-off brush-on
Thursday, September 29th, 2005Kimiko Ryokai has produced a short video demonstrating a splashy — well, spraybrush-y — way to take colors and patterns from almost anything and reproduce them somewhere (if not quite anywhere) else.
(Thanks to Ginnie Grallia for bringing this to our attention.)
Leaves of grass — a publishing tale
Thursday, September 29th, 2005An obsessive pensioner was surprised to learn he had been published in a leading scientific journal after keeping a diary for the past 20 years of how many times he mows his lawn….
So begins a report in the September 3, 2005 issue of The Daily Telegraph.
(Thanks to investigator Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.)
…and unaware
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005A memorable, all-too-entertaining report in the September 28, 2000 issue of the Washington Post elaborates on our earlier observation that sometimes the Ig Nobel Prizes can bring clarity to puzzling events in the news. Here’s a characteristic snippet:
Rep. Christopher Shays, a Connecticut Republican, called Brown’s account of events "feeble," "clueless," "shocking" and "beyond belief." Said Shays: "I’m happy you left, because that kind of . . . look in the lights like a deer tells me that you weren’t capable to do the job."
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