Take us out to the Ball Game

Or, as a consolation prize, watch a time lapse video of Fenway Park on a game day....

"All the books in the world, except one."

Lovely illustrated story.  You can disregard the "mature content" Livejournal warning as there's nothing nasty, or at least not on this day's posting.

All 120 Crayon colors and names

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/22/all-120-crayon-names-color-codes-and-fun-facts/

Garfield, minus Garfield

"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let's laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb."

The Engineer's guide to Cats

"...which may be of use to you even if you're a regular person, not an engineer."

NY Post - "Yankee Stadium now Cursed, Forever!"

The NY Post, always a stalwart champion of accuracy and honesty in reporting, published a report from an unnamed construction worker on the new Yankee Stadium.  A secret Red Sox fan, this saboteur claims to have secretly buried a 'Sox jersey in the concrete floor of the visiting team locker room.

"Oh Noes!" reports the Post, "the franchise is now Cursed, forever!"

Lockhart's Lament

"…if I had to design a mechanism for the express purpose of destroying a child's natural curiosity and love of pattern-making, I couldn't possibly do as good a job as is currently being done — I simply wouldn't have the imagination to come up with the kind of senseless, soul-crushing ideas that constitute contemporary mathematics education."

Ten thousand cents

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

Images of the day - Auroras

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/03/colors-in-nature-aurora/