Art and shiny things…
–Gender Issues in Comic Books are Getting Their Own Online College Course, via Pajiba
–Why I Respectfully Decline Feminism, via A Deeper Story
–The Local Church is THE Place for Biblical Counseling, via CCEF
–Audrey Hepburn Digitally Resurrected for Chocolate Bar Ad, via Mashable
–Oscar for the Funniest Speech goes to…Jennifer Lawrence, for her hilarious backstage Q&A
1)”Bob Dylan gave me a fist bump today. It was the best day of my life.” – Marcus Mumford
2)21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words, via Popsci
3)25 Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to San Francisco, via The Art of Living
4)27 Ways to Make Your Groceries Last as Long as Possible, via Buzzfeed
5) Why We Love Beautiful Things, via The New York Times
I don’t pretend to understand it completely but this is cool.
During his sabbatical at Willow Garage, Stéphane Magnenat from the Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich integrated a new Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) solution. SLAM allows a robot to build a map of its environment, and to localize itself in this map. This system is based on a modular ICP algorithm, a collaboration with François Pomerleau and Francis Colas at the Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zurich.
From NPR’s Morning edition –
Egyptian Women Speak Out Against Sexual Violence at Protests
“Most often a culture of silence prevails, and the victim is blamed rather than the rapist.”
Most likely I’ll be switching the design posts over to my design blog, Coffeteer, sometime soon. Here’s a recent post from there –
Debuting a new series wherein every Friday I highlight a design website I love. Today’s pick is Maptote, a Brooklyn-based company that makes products decorated with maps of both local and exotic places. These include everything from note cards to bandannas, zip pouches, and of course, custom-made totes.
Background:
When a stylist and a cartographer fall in love and get married, what do they make (besides babies)? In the case of Brooklyn couple Rachel Rheingold and Michael Berick, they create Maptote, a line of products decorated with maps of locales both domestic and exotic.
– 7 Seinfeld Plots that Happened in Real Life
–Why Are We So Ashamed of Our Women Heroes? – Charles Clymer on how it’s not okay for guys to put up a poster of Hilary Clinton on their wall
I came back to let you know/got a thing for you that I can’t let go
I’m mildly obsessed with candles, so every few months I buy a new fragrance to try out. Recently, that fragrance was Pacifica Tuscan Blood Orange Votive. I’m a fan of Pacifica overall – they make relatively inexpensive perfumes, bath and shower products, and the recently expanded to beauty products, and feature a range of unusual and exotic scents tied to those products. I’m a big fan of their Tuscan Blood Orange perfume, which is a heady scent that manages to be both spicy and sweet at the same time (full review another time). So obviously I bought a set of 6 Tuscan Blood Orange candles with high hopes.
Alas – this temptingly named, visually appealing candle (made of deep red candle wax) – has almost no scent at all. Believe me – I tried lighting it multiple times, wondering if perhaps I’d been mistaken the previous times, had adapted to the scent too quickly, anything of that sort. No – the scent this candle gives off is a nice smell- fairly similar to the perfume, a sort of rich, orange-ey scent – but is is almost nonexistent. I had to put my nose right up to the candle – about an inch away – to be able to smell the fragrance at all, and this was both when it had been burning for 5 minutes and when it had been burning for 2 and a half hours. This was an utter waste of money and, while I will continue to buy Pacifica perfumes occasionally, I have no intention of ever buying Pacifica candles again.
Verdict: Lose it!
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