A holotype is not necessarily 'typical' of that taxon, although ideally it should be. Sometimes just a fragment of an organism is the holotype, for example in the case of a fossil. The holotype of Pelorosaurus humerocristatus, a large herbivore dinosaur from the early Jurassic period, is a fossil leg bone stored at the Natural History Museum in London. Even if a better specimen is subsequently found, the holotype is not superseded.

like those rolled pellet tongues of pigeons.
(from the best book in the world)

42, 20, and 18 million views reaffirms every prejudice i maintain about human nature.

1. hardknock in that white on white.
(summertime).

the thriller long version.

Let’s look at the data that Apple and Google each have at their disposal:

• Precise information on the when and where of the movement of their customers.
• A database of the location of WiFi routers by MAC address that is being constantly updated that they can use to connect wireless and wired behaviour.
• Network access data. Google knows what everyone searches for by IP and by cookie.
• Credit card data. As of March 2011, Apple has over 200 million active credit card numbers on file each attached to an apple ID, which you have to have associated with your iPhone in order to use the app store.
• Search history data (even via so-called Private Browsing).
• IP and geolocation account login data (either through Gmail or me.com in Apple’s case).

via.

if i had to pitch to samsung, i'd say their next big android product should be completely dark. offer consumers a way to use their smartphones secure in the knowledge that they're not being tracked, not being profiled, not being logged. the way RIM used to do with their BBM service, pre-RIM meltdown.

camelot, ash thorp.

prometheus is worth it for the UI and the landscapes alone.

If I start this story, it will take two hours. I'd seen this palace—it was not an Arabic palace. It was done by an Italian in the 17th or 18th century for a sultan. At the end of it was the harem, and at the end of that was a huge bathroom, a room about the size of our living room with a slight divider—one for going to the toilet, where they used a hole in the floor, and the other was for bathing. Have you ever seen Egyptian vases—we have one in the living room—tan colored with little white lines? I thought it was translucent onyx. You could call it a tan marble with little white streaks. The floors and walls of this [room] were all that material. At the ceiling there was a dome made out of the material, and instead of pieces of glass, they used thin sheets of onyx and the light came through that.

To cut it short, this was not onyx. This was alabaster. I didn't know that at the time. The model we made used onyx from Peru... Marble and alabaster are quarried in solid blocks. At the time we started getting serious, the Peruvians promised they could do it, but they couldn't do it after all. We wanted big sheets, eight feet by eight feet, and we wanted a lot of them. You can't find enough boulders. The boulders vary in color and all that. In fact, all the white ones are reserved for the Vatican. We spent two years looking for onyx. ...

The building outside looks kind of cold. I'm really not crazy about the white marble because it's too cold, but we had no choice if we wanted translucency. If I had known that what I was dreaming about was alabaster, and if we could have had proper tests taken to find out if it could stand water, that building would have been a dream. We would have covered the structure with the same thing. These X's would have been covered with a marble. It would be opaque because it would be stuck against it, and it would be all in one material. I doubt if it would stand up to the weather of the United States. If it did, it would be wonderful.

bunshaft on beinecke.

velcro and nasa.



(commerce by artists).

NaCl.

potential spaces.


the meeting place.

velcro was invented in 1941 by Swiss engineer Georges de Mestral.

roman signer.

the church machine, by matt storus. (skip to 6:00).

sam doctor.

1933 shanghai slaughterhouse.