more(ish) : meg's scrapbook

This is a collection of bits and pieces, collected from around the web, or stumbled over on my daily web wanderings. They are visual bookmarks, snippets, digital ephemera, inspiration and things to check out later. Most of these things are presented without context or explanation. Don't try to read too much into these things - why they're here, or what I'm trying to communicate via their presence - because you'll only get a headache. The presence of anything in these pages only means is that I spend a lot of my life online, and this is some of the digital lint that gets caught in my browser's bellybutton. For more ramblings, less bits and bobs, try my main site, meish.org Full archive here.

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(via Seafood: The choice is yours - The Washington Post)

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Magic is an art, as capable of beauty as music, painting or poetry. But the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception: Does the trick fool the audience? A magician’s data sample spans centuries, and his experiments have been replicated often enough to constitute near-certainty. Neuroscientists—well intentioned as they are—are gathering soil samples from the foot of a mountain that magicians have mapped and mined for centuries. MRI machines are awesome, but if you want to learn the psychology of magic, you’re better off with Cub Scouts and hard candy.

Teller Reveals His Secrets | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine

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...the changing nature of media – newspapers are now less about relating THE story and more about acting as a platform for multiple strands around a topic to be explored by multiple participants, including the readers themselves, in real time...

Creative Review - Guardian ad re-tells story of Three Little Pigs

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A somewhat different take on the thing we reblogged earlier, but it shows two very interesting things: First, Tumblr and Pinterest are timesucks in equal measure, and second, nobody’s actually hanging around Google+ once they sign up. The latter is the subject of this super-interesting Wall Street Journal piece. (EDIT: A good point: Don’t take that Twitter number at face value, as this graphic skips two key elements of the Twitter experience — mobile and third-party apps.)

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Urbanus - Mieleke Melleke Mol (by UrbanusVEVO)

There are no words.

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Depressed Polar Bear c/o the Terrible Taxidermy tumblr

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10 O'Clock Live - Charlie Brooker's Sun Poem (by EricDeeping)

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Holiday

April 1961

via survival2019

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"My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible."

'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewed | Television & radio | The Guardian

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Edward Gorey

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Meet the incredible smiling seal!

How an intrepid photographer crawled across the ice on his stomach to get these amazing images

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(via Eyewitness: Olympic test event | World news | guardian.co.uk)

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Illustration by the late Ronald Searle at the excellent tribute site Perpetua

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(via Toronto News: Year-long exposure of Toronto skyline produces 'dreamy' image - thestar.com)

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Christmas guest.

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*Love* this.

(via Embossed leather Electric Library smart cover for by punkassjim)

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Engineering flowchart. Best thing since Everything Explained Through Flowcharts    (via)