"When you reach into the dark / I can hold you / can I hold you now?"

[larryhammer]

The Known Universe, being a film that zooms out then in through the Digital Universe Atlas. As Kottke says, it's worth watching in as high definition as you can manage on your system.

It's electronica with recursion and frame-breaking -- how can you resist?

Or if you prefer, how about an emoticon stamper. Okay, kaomoji stamper. But now you too can has \ ^ _ ^ / (and thousands of other combinations) on your papers, as well as your monitor.

Möbius bagel. Mmm, bagel. (via)

Look at the Milky Way in x-ray, visible, hydrogen-α, far IR, microwave, and radio spectra, all at Chromoscope. (via)

A eccentric collection of 19th century Japanese illustrations of mermaids in books about marine biology.

Study finds that hedge funds managed by women outperform those managed by men, but a large margin. Risk management at work. (via)

ROADS! (via)

Using a d20 saving throw to game your smoking abatement campaign. (via)

Because it's been a while since I last linked to it, once again it's "Edward Gorey"'s The Trouble with Tribbles. (via)

One guitar, four hands. (via)

And finally, blog devoted to oddly specific signs.

---L.