Daily View, 10/19

Ha, well, in cruising my feeds after that last post, I actually found many things of interest, and—considering I'm in full-on procrastination mode and sure as hell not going to doing anything resembling work for the next hour while I zone out with the iTunes on random, why the hell not. Time to post. Woo! (I'm drug-free, thanks)

• I have a little internet crush on one of the web designers who did one of the web set of buttons at El Boton... so I bought the set. Which is stupid, I realize, but anonymously purchasing a product that doesn't directly benefit or notify the man in question is basically as close as I come to asking a guy out these days. (And no, it's not JSM).


• Researchers announced today that they've built the world's first invisibility cloak (but read the fine print before you get too excited).


• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin are online, baby! Awesome.


• Hm, interesting review of Marie Antoinette—little harsh on Sofia, eh? Is there really anything wrong with using cinema as "a mirror in which she looks at herself, not a mirror she holds to the world"? Since when does storytelling have to be free of self-examination or -revelation? A great many books and movies and music would cease to exist if we played by those rules. Come the fuck on. With that said, I hope the movie doesn't suck. I'm really looking forward to it.


• The simple yet slightly menacing waspnest lamp. I dig.


• For some mysterous reason, people are painting really realistic sushi on rocks.


• Slate's History of YouTube has some golden moments of the last year. Is YouTube really only a year old???


• Space etiquette. Don't play around, we're all space bound.


• The world's most polluted places, none of which are in the US, despite what you believe about New York City.


• I'm terrified just watching the promo for Horrorfest. Why so long after Halloween??