Via The Daily What

Pricey, at $3.75 per card, but could be worth it depending on the occasion. I’m partial to this one:

In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of crustaceans, invertebrates and other deep-sea-dwelling animals to display a larger size than their shallow-water counterparts.

The Giant Isopod (read: A Roly Poly, the size of a football) is a crustacean that shows the effects of deep-sea gigantism.

via Kottke

What we remember — and what we forget — may reveal more about ourselves than about them. We have photos, letters, souvenirs, and fragments of memory, but our powerful imagination takes over from there: We color in the blanks. And that’s OK. Retouching old loves is a way of understanding what we want. It helps us find our way to new ones.

Frugal Flying, via Kottke.

Louis CK talking about how everything is amazing, particularly phones and flight, and nobody is happy.

Whether you would like to tally an afternoon or a year, Daytum can help you collect and communicate the most important statistics in your life. From an up-to-the-moment personal dashboard, to a tabulation of an event, a home for sports scores, or as a corporate tool, the uses for Daytum may be limitless.

I’m in, and after hours of messing with it, have gone Plus.

After checking out a few articles, I stumbled across Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots by The Kleptones, known for this and other mashups.

Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots is a 2003 bastard pop album by The Kleptones. It combines instrumental tracks from The Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with vocal tracks from various rap songs.

I’ve been listening to it all evening. It’s fun, weird, disturbing… needs more listening.