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Internet Archaeology's purpose is to "preserve these [graphic] artifacts and acknowledge their importance in understanding the beginnings and birth of an Internet Culture."  Their collection ranges from Flash, MIDI, Y2K and various still and moving images.  Link [via MeFi]

[Pictured Above, www.geocities.com/TheTropics/2428/bldg/05-1.gif - 1998 - Ron's Beach House]

Roy Bayfield of the blog Walking Home to 50 decides to take a journey to an imaginary place called Argleton which can be found on Google Maps. 

Google Maps show an imaginary place near to where I live: a town with the ugly name of Argleton. This has been commented on elsewhere, with theories that they have simply got the name Aughton wrong (though Aughton appears as well), or that it is a deliberate mistake, designed to catch out unauthorised users of the maps, like a ‘trap street’ inserted in an A-Z map. However, Argleton does more than just sit there as a hidden feature: it shoves its way into people’s attention in many ways. Various software packages use Google’s geographical information, and Argleton seems to have primary claim on the surrounding postcodes – one can rent property there, or read inspection reports for its nurseries, at least according to the internet.

The possibility of actually visiting an imaginary place seemed irresistible. In terms of my journey, not to go there would be a dereliction of duty, like saying ‘I could have made a detour to Rock Candy Mountain’ or ‘Tir-nan-Og’, ‘but I decided to press on directly to Maghull instead’. So today I decided to make the expedition – from the world we know to a fictitious and uncertain place.

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Black and WTF is a blog of unusual found black and white photographs.  I wish I knew the back story to many of the photos.  Although, it is fun making up some of my own.

Link [via MeFi]

Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr takes dead fly carcasses and breathes new life into them with a few strokes of his pencil.  Link to gallery.

[Pictured above, Acrobatics]

Previously on BC:
Insect Lab: Customized insects by Mike Libby - Link

Researchers have discovered a new fly, which they have named Cascoplecia insolitis, that was said to have lived during the time of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago in the jungles of Myanmar.  A single specimen of the monster-like fly was preserved in Burmese amber. 

Scientists are nicknaming the fly the "unicorn" fly because it has a small horn that emerges from its head and on top of the horn are three eyes.  Because of the unusual characteristics of this fly, researchers have placed it in a new family, genus and species of fly.

“If we had seen nothing but the wings of this insect, it would have looked similar to some other flies in the family Bibionomorpha,” Poinar said. “But this was near the end of the Early Cretacous when a lot of strange evolutionary adaptations were going on. Its specialized horn and eyes must have given this insect an advantage on very tiny flowers, but didn’t serve as well when larger flowers evolved. So it went extinct.”

The fly also had other very unusual characteristics, the study found, such as an odd-shaped antenna, unusually long legs that would have helped it crawl over flowers and extremely small vestigial mandibles that would have limited it to nibbling on very tiny particles of food.

“None of the specialized body characters of Cascoplecia occurs on previously reported Cretaceous bibionids,” the report concluded. “This ‘unicorn’ fly was one of the oddities of the Cretaceous world and was obviously an evolutionary dead end.”

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[Photo from Oregon State University photostream]

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of Good Eater wrote an interesting article on how to boil the perfect soft and hard boiled eggs. 

Nearly every basic cookbook offers conflicting techniques on how it should be done—start the egg in cold water, or gently lower it into boiling water; add vinegar to the water to lower its pH, or add baking soda to the water to raise it; cover the pot, don't cover the pot; use old eggs, or use new eggs, and on and on—but very few offer evidence as to why any one of these techniques should work any better than your average old wives' tale. Apparently, boiling is not...ahem...an eggs-act science.

At first you may think this is a rather lengthy article on something as simple as boiling an egg, but I guarantee you will find the science behind the perfect boiled egg quite fascinating.

Link

Biologist Christopher Meehan and his team discovered that the Bagheera kiplingi spider (named after the panther from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book) primarily feasts on buds that grow on acacia plants. 

In the article, it is stated that the spider occasionally snacks on ant larvae.  Wouldn't that make the spider an omnivore [wiki]? 

Link [via digg]

Susan is in need of employment.  Instead of pounding the pavement, she wants her boss to come to her -- She is hiring her own boss.  If you think you've got what it takes to be Susan's boss, apply now! 

I like this chica! 

Link (via ShawnStruck)

Curtis Melvin is a PhD student from George Mason University who is on a mission to uncover the secrets of North Korea by plotting unknown sites into Google Maps. 

Aaron Hotfelder from Gadling writes:

Using knowledge gleaned from his own trips to North Korea, as well as tips from many others who have visited, Curtis and his crew of civilian spies have managed to plot into Google Maps previously unknown sites in North Korea such as secret prison camps, vast burial mounds, and missile storage facilities. His interactive project, called "North Korea Uncovered," has literally thousands of entries and is the most exhaustive map of North Korea to date.

Link (via MarkBrent)