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Knitted Thing of the Day: Daphne O’Donoghue, Joy Pearson, Joyce McDonagh, Margaret Goldup (above) and several other members of the Mersham Afternoon Club in Mersham, Kent, have spent the last 23 years knitting a scale model of their entire village, complete with cricket pitch, cabbage patches, and teenagers slouching on their way to school.
“We read about another village that’d done it, and we thought we’d give it a whirl,” Ms. McDonagh told the Telegraph. “But we’d no idea what we’d bitten off, it just sort of grew and grew and grew.”
Plenty more photos of the massive installation can be found here.
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The project is one of the longest-running—and probably the most exhaustive—longitudinal studies of mental and physical well-being in history. Begun in 1937 as a study of healthy, well-adjusted Harvard sophomores (all male), it has followed its subjects for more than 70 years … But hidden amid the shimmering successes were darker hues. As early as 1948, 20 members of the group displayed severe psychiatric difficulties. By age 50, almost a third of the men had at one time or another met Vaillant’s criteria for mental illness. Underneath the tweed jackets of these Harvard elites beat troubled hearts.
Both fascinating and terrifying. I’m certain that if this were carried out with the class of 2009, we’d all turn out similarly neurotic.
Written by a prof at the college where I work, awesome….
Haha, yes. It’s awesome seeing incredible stuff come out of the same college lit-house that gave me my running start.
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omigosh, i wish they did this when i went to highschool there. would have been 10 times more interesting than reading the police blotter and working to figure out who the people were.
of course, i never got booked by denton pd. if i did, then i’d hate this times a million.
The Denton police department Tweets your age, name, mugshot and what they’re booking you with. What is this world coming to?
These pictures are incredible this is my new favorite twitter.
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So you thought I don’t do shit every day, right? You’re close, but no cigar.
This is an app a friend an I are working on. Right now, we call it “Welcome to the Tumbledome” which will no doubt change. It shows a grid of people you follow and all their updates since the last time you logged into the app. Hover over an avatar to see their username and click it to view a brief summary of unread posts, complete with clickable URLs and all that bullshit.
It will be done hopefully by May and will be available as both a web and Adobe AIR app.
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I am listening to a bit of hip-hop. Aight! Yo, fo realz mo-fo's!
if we’re talking T.I. and other american rappers - they’re talking about patron. it’s tequila.
i don’t think rappers are talking about peroni, the gross italian beer. but who knows what people are rapping about on your side of the ocean… :p
Quick question: Why are rappers obsessed with Patrone/Petrone/Patron these days? Isn’t it that cheap sickly stuff Italians drink in little shot glasses? Like Limoncello? I’m obviously not cool enough for Hip-Hop these days. I think I’ll just stick with my miserable rock music and pretend I’m still young enough to be a Scene Kid. Ahem.
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this made me think of souljah boy - kiss me through the phone.
it’s reallllll!
The KissPhone detects percussion speed, pressure, temperature, and sucking force of the lips, when you kiss it. An artificial mouth on the KissPhone receptor can reproduces same parameters. So the customer is able to…
…send or receive kiss from distance,
…leave or receive a kiss in answering machine,
…repeat the kiss saved on the phone or
…relay it to other people,
…download or upload kiss in the web
…receive kiss from a kiss bank as the one from Madonna or from an imaginary Hero!
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