Author: gulley

Charts from Hell. Someone has gone to the trouble of collecting gruesome stock price charts of dot-com failures. It’s voyeuristic but riveting to click through them. You can practically hear the sound of a lot of money being lost.

The Joe Cartoon Co. has been around for a while, and if the humor is pretty adolescent, the artwork and animation are inspired. Check out The Boss, a recent Flash animation at the site. The voice characterization on the brown-nosing gerbil is just brilliant.

Fun blog: dack.com.

Traffic waves: physics for bored commuters is a serious treatment of a topic that many of us have speculated about: cars are like particles.

Feed Magazine has a good special edition on drugs. Psychoactive chemicals are at the intersection of psychology, chemistry, pop culture, and religion. It’s a fascinating place to be, and it’s only going to get more so.

Jibjab presents the rapping forefathers of our country.

At the Florence museum of science, you can pay your respects to Galileo’s finger. Read about it on this week’s Star Chamber.

The EDGE sounds pretentious, but it’s got some good stuff. Who’s behind this thing?

Beautiful piece by Clay Shirky about looking at proteins: Seven Ways of Looking at a Protein