Celebrating quirky

NurdleNet is a blog dedicated to finding and sharing quirky, nifty, and enjoyably odd people, places, and things.
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Next steps on the Lincoln Kennedy project

I was a little shocked this week after simply putting the words “Lincoln Kennedy” on eBay to come up with this result:
ORIGINAL-1964-LITHOGRAPH-JOHN-KENNEDY-ABRAHAM-LINCOLN_  – yes, the image is identical and the seller is less than 20 miles down the road from the location where mine were found, the mystery deepens since his has the printer’s company [...]

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Art from science 2009

Princeton’s third Art of Science competition is online and the winners announced.  All of the images were coincidental to scientific research, not created as art.  If you’ve never considered the artistic merit of embryonic squid, here’s your chance.  Can you tell what the object is before reading the captions?

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Jellyfish crop circle and other highlights

The crop circles of 2009 are promising to surpass earlier years. So either the aliens are getting better at it or the secret prize money at the local pub is enough to be inspiring.  I quite like the jellyfish design this year – the first ever jellyfish  crop circle but then there are a lot [...]

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Random links for the week of June 15th

Art made from money – I suppose if it sells for more than it incorporates you’ve reached a profit.  I wonder if the Federal Reserve will bother pointing out that this is actually against the law (read the comments on that site for the exact citation.)
Another explanation for missing socks – I think I recognize [...]

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