This video explains how to record with a potato: After watching the video, you may have questions. And a potato. [HT BoingBoing]
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Looking at Tyrells potato crisp packets (image ecology study)
Within the academic field of aesthetics, there aren’t all that many essays written on about potato crisp packets. There is, however, at least one. Karin Wagner, who is professor and associate head of department for research in art history and visual studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, specialises in the areas […]
Imperfect Potato Problems
Two items to add to your imperfect potato collection: First, an influential (it has been cited in one other study) study, in a singular writing style: “Possible Mechanisms of Human Teratogenesis by Imperfect Potato,” Isabel Gal, Humangenetik, vol. 19, no. 3-4, 1973, pp. 311-314. Here is an imperfect potato extract: Second, an admission, by Dean Burnett, […]
Ballistic Potatoes – the Dangers
“All over the world, mostly adolescent boys enjoy building and firing […] combustion-powered guns launching chunks of potatoes into the environment.” “Although potato cannons are an area of great interest among internet users, they are almost completely unknown in the medical community.” At least they were – until details of the experimental work by Matthias […]
Hot potatoes to combat nuclear Armageddon
“Each message is regarded as a ‘hot potato’, and the nodes are not wearing gloves. Rather than hold the ‘hot potato’ the node tosses the message to its neighbor, who will now try to get rid of the message.” The paragraph above is describing aspects of the Hot Potato Algorithm, originally developed by (the late) […]
The vicar’s fall from grace (onto a potato)
The British edition of The Metro reports (in an article derived from reporting by The Sun: Vicar hospitalised with potato up his bum A vicar claims a potato got stuck up his bottom after he fell on to the vegetable while hanging curtains in the nude. The clergyman, in his 50s, told medical staff at […]
The clergyman and the tuber
Vicar went to hospital with potato stuck in bottom That’s the headline in a October 31, 2008 report in The Telegraph, which goes on to explain that “A vicar attended hospital with a potato stuck up his bottom – and claimed it got there after he fell on to the vegetable while naked…. The clergyman, […]