Baby otters

You know what’s adorable? Baby otters. I especially like the squeaky one.

Beware the Puns

Piers Anthony is quite a character- and so are his characters! Piers has written well over a hundred books, from the sixties to the latest Xanth book that will come out next year. I recommend my favorite series he’s written, The Incarnations of Imortality. These books explore the concepts like Nature and Death as if they were jobs, set in a future where magic has caught up with technology.

The Hawkeye Initiative

“How to fix every Strong Female Character pose in superhero comics: replace the character with Hawkeye doing the same thing.” –Gingerhaze

The Hawkeye Initiative is brilliant, in a word. Hilarious, baffling, and cringe-inducing, to be sure, but amazing. If a female comic book character is being a badass, redraw her with Hawkeye in the same pose, and see if it’s still awesome, or more “Where’s his spine?”

For Top-Secret Documents

Have you ever thought, “Man, I really wish I could write like a ninja”? Well now you can! The Last Ninja font is an epic, caps-only font. Enjoy!

Hyperbolic Geometry

I’ve left you without math for far too long. Hyperbolic geometry is both brilliant and terrifying: the closer your object gets to the center of the territory (it’s a disk, but I expect you didn’t know that), the larger it needs to appear in “regular geometry” (Euclidean geometry) to have the same hyperbolic measurement. I think of it like a reverse black hole: the closer an object is to the middle, the less dense it gets.

The Secret Bookstore of New York

After rising rent forced his secondhand bookstore out of New York City, Michael Seidenberg runs his shop out of his house. He’s less-than-optimistic about the future of literature; he says, “I don’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this and now everyone’s going to read all the books and the forgotten authors.’ It’s a losing battle, we’ve lost. I just want to do as much as I can.” An admirable sentiment. What can each of us do for books?

Tie a Bow-tie with Bill Nye

Ever wanted to learn how to tie a bow tie? How about with Bill Nye, the Science Guy? Well, what are you waiting for?

Top Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Welcome, one and all, to another excellent list of books. These are some of my favorite sci-fi and fantasy novels:

The Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
1984 by George Orwell
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Silken Designs

Silk is “interactive generative art”. Paint the most delicate of weavings with your mouse in nearly any color as you listen to the calming music. The handy “Share” button lets you show your friends what you’ve created. Click the image below to watch my drawing bloom.

Is the internet down?

The website Down For Everyone Or Just Me is one of the most helpful pages I have encountered. When I have trouble loading a page, it’s usually my first step towards a solution: is just my computer having a problem, or is the rest of the internet having issues too?