Protein Patterns
Knit your own favorite amino acids according to these charts of all 20 at ChemKnits!
Guttersnipe
Just a critter in the Gutter.
Tudor Bestiary
A gallery of images from a 1520 bestiary. (Thanks, Miguel!)
RIP, Emi Ito
Singer and actress Emi Ito has died. Ito was a member of the singing duo, The Peanuts, with her twin sister, Yumi. And both were probably most famous as the Shobijin/twin fairies who were mystically connected to Mothra in the Mothra and Godzilla films of the 1960s and […]
Korra and Youtube
Asking the Wrong Questions on the completed first season of Legend of Korra (with lots of spoilers) and Cringely on Youtube as not the greatest means of producing great TV.
RIP, Nora Ephron
Writer and director Nora Ephron has died. The New York Times has an overview of her life and career and Marsha McCreadie has a memoriam at Movieline. “Ms. Ephron’s collection I Remember Nothing concludes with two lists, one of things she says she won’t miss and one of […]
“We Do Not Want A Page On This Topic”
TV Tropes has blocked all its pages concerning rape as trope in popular culture after Google threatened TV Tropes‘ ad revenue over “explicit content.” “If you’re thinking this ineffectual censorship just highlights how ridiculous and dangerous the pressure to rid our social vocabularies of potentially ‘creepy’ words like […]
The Cultural Gutter 