Angela Merkel struggles to put on a doctoral hood. I feel you, Angela!
Lucas Brunelle jumps a pothole on his bike while be interviewed by people in a car. :)
Draw any picture, have it "snap" into a Matisse shape. Amazing.
Amazing OLPC banknotes! Super cool!
Zittrain's system for storing links from academic law review articles.
I'm not sure I like this but I get the strong sense that this is some pure version of what Tumblr was created to do.
If you liked the Acetarium, you're going to love...
"A short documentary film that follows classical Japanese metal artist Ford Hallam as he recreates a lost masterpiece by the 19th century Mito tsuba artist, Hagia Katsuhira." Highly recommended.
This is pretty opaque, but I think it is really pretty great.
This is a really really wonderful description of how OfflineIMAP works.
Map of a reports of stolen bicycles.
I'm also a devotee of the Amtrak quiet car.
"I emphasize, it is not a question of making the schools and universities, of making the educational system political. The educational system is political already. ... What we want is a counter-policy against the established policy."