Ryan Patricio sets the one-handed 3×3x3 Rubik’s Cube speedcubing world record during the Caltech spring competition 2006. Amazing.

Honk if Pluto is still a planet: Show your support through a bumper sticker.

Kottke’s mnemonic device: “Man, very erroneous! Moronic jerks shouldn’t uninclude neat Pluto.”

Save Pluto: Show your support through a T-shirt.

NASA is still going there: Who cares if it’s a planet?

Photoshop contest: “promote Pluto as a planet, not some stinking asteroid.”

Pluto 2006: Disregards vote, running as an independent.

According to Health SciTech, your brain boots up like a computer:

As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere.

Like a computer booting up its operating system before running more complicated programs, the nitric oxide triggers certain functions that set the stage for more complex brain operations, according to a new study.

Dicewars: I’m so unbelievably addicted to this game.

‘The Mismeasure of Woman’: The Economist examines the differences between the sexes.

‘The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time’: According to PC World.

Snakes on a Cake: When will the “Snakes on a X” thing end?

‘Web sites that Changed the World’: 15 from the Guardian.

Haven’t you heard? It’s people! Soylent Green is people!

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase: “Joan Gratz’s Oscar winning trip through the works of thirty-five different legendary artists all animated with nothing more than clay.”

Zefrank on Terrorism: “A small number of people can incapacitate a society by leveraging our inability to understand risk.”

Penn & Teller’s Bullshit: Twenty-three episodes of the awesome award-winning show — for free!

“The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we’re trying to catalogue it.”

A girl takes a picture of herself every day for three years, and then strings together the photographs for a stop-action movie that’s spooky in a way that I can’t quite articulate.

The D80 is here: Though intended as a replacement for the D70, Nikon’s newest SLR packs in many of the features of my beloved D200 — including a 10.2-megapixel sensor and a beautiful 2.5-inch viewing screen — but will retail for several hundred dollars less. Hands-on preview here.

After a lengthy blog hiatus, I’ve decided to put the type back into idle type. For now, the photoblog will remain active on the main idle type page, and all the rest of the stuff that I feel like posting will end up here. Thanks for stopping by.