Swans on Tea

Anticrepuscular Rays Over Colorado, the APOD for Nov 16

Mimes are annoying, but mimics are cool. Can You See Me? Animal Camouflage: Leaf Mimics
Dead leaf butterflies are extraordinary creatures to observe up close. The specimen below illustrates the intricate details chiseled out by adaptation through natural selection, which is a driving force of evolution. The remarkable details help the [...]

The Cuil is proposed as a new unit.
One Cuil = One level of abstraction away from the reality of a situation.
Example: You ask me for a Hamburger.
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3 Cuils: You awake as a hamburger. You start screaming only to have special sauce fly from your lips. The world is in sepia.

Star Trek light-switch, slider and power-outlet escutcheon plates at that Nerdonium money-sink, Think Geek
[F]or just a few strips of latinum, you can decorate your own 21st century domicile with lighting and power wall-plates, complete with LCARS interface designs! Of course, the panels are non-working – probably because our primitive electrical power-systems are incompatible with 24th [...]