Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-28-2009

[anuran]

• D*I*S*C*O (Spotify playlist)
  Will just sent me this link to an aaaamazing disco spotify playlst his friend made for him.
  (tags: DISCO spotify music)
• YouTube - The Technical Hitch
  Animation short the Technical Hitch is a satirical take on technological failures starring Tikuf, the atomic anomaly. With a stinging narration of rhyming couplets read by acting legend Robert Lindsay. I really like this :)
  (tags: animation youtube)
• Darwennui, or 'Humboldt from the Blue'
  A nice introduction to Alexander von Humboldt, who I'd never heard of before but should read about
  (tags: biology blog humboldt)
• Samso, the Danish island where the residents have cut their carbon footprint by 140 per cent | Environment | The Observer
  Population 4,100.
  (tags: renewables denmark)

Comments

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

If you're into Humboldt, you should read Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World. It's a historical novel about Humboldt and a mathematician, Gauss, and I found it screamingly funny, as well as rather clever.