Category: Daily Links

‘The spiny anteater’s four-headed phallus had been puzzling scientists’. Nature is super-weird.

Just a quick geeky moment. This is seriously cool: ‘WebKit now has rudimentary support for specifying transforms through CSS. Boxes can be scaled, rotated, skewed and translated.’ Hello, vertical text.

via Paper Forest, cut-paper sculptures

‘Akita Prefectural Library in Japan have a series of six toy design illustration books produced between 1891 and 1913 by (I think) Yamada from Kyoto.’

The history and modern development of the baby hatch: a safe place to abandon unwanted babies.

This is a really great story. I can’t really say what it’s about without spoiling it…

‘June 1942. Tightening a nut on a guide vane servomotor in the Tennessee Valley Authority hydroelectric plant at the Watts Bar Dam. 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.’

[someone] “threw a bucket of red paint or dye into Rome’s Trevi Fountain on Friday, coloring the waters of the 18th-century monument bright red in front of a crowd of astonished tourists and residents.”

‘I am convinced that often, the cause and effect is reversed: people hold onto fundamentalist religious beliefs because evolution by natural selection is so counter-intuitive to so many.’ via Pharyngula; not sure I agree, but it’s an interesting argument.

A slideshow of remarkable studio portrait photos of members of the Taliban.

‘I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a heartbeat.There are three great cities in the United States: there’s Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order.’