My eyes!

May 29, 2008 7:29 AM

Paul Nylander's home page is garish and busy, but full of interesting tidbits about fractals, insects, physics, and other things.
posted by owhydididoit (16 comments total)

“The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork.”
Psalm 19:1

My eyes! You made me read Bible verse owhydididoit. Oh why did you do it?
posted by three blind mice at 7:33 AM on May 29, 2008

Hey, folks on the web believe all kinds of things. Did you check out the interesting tidbits?
posted by owhydididoit at 7:37 AM on May 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

Rainbow sends eyeballs rotating, there's words about, uuuuuuuuugh!
posted by Mblue at 7:55 AM on May 29, 2008

Imgladyoudidit. That is a lively, engaging website. Thanks for the link!
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 8:02 AM on May 29, 2008

The insect captions alone are freakin' brilliant. I hope this guy's a certified MENSA smashing genius. Like, before breakfast everyday he absentmindedly solves equations that would make Einstein cry. Just because he has a little free time while his bread toasts.

The males have bigger jaws than the females. They use their jaws to fight over the females.
This one has three big horns like a triceratops.
This is my largest butterfly so far. Some butterflies grow even bigger.
Walking sticks are the longest insects.
These are arguably the world’s heaviest beetles. This one is a female (the males are a little bit bigger). Look at that face; looks like something from Star Wars.
I think these are the world’s longest beetles.
I don’t know if this it true or not, but this site claims these are the world’s most poisonous butterflies. I’ve also read that they are rare.
posted by Science! at 8:02 AM on May 29, 2008 [1 favorite]

Wow, this guy has done a lot of interesting stuff. Except for learning modern web design, but hey.
posted by DU at 8:07 AM on May 29, 2008

The insect captions alone are freakin' brilliant.

I liked this one:
"In my opinion, this is the most beautiful butterfly in the world. Ironically, it is not a butterfly! It is a moth ..."
posted by TedW at 8:28 AM on May 29, 2008

Wow, this guy has done a lot of interesting stuff. Except for learning modern web design, but hey.

The former precludes the latter.
posted by nthdegx at 8:35 AM on May 29, 2008 [2 favorites]

Michael Bluejay called, he wants his homepage back.
posted by horsemuth at 9:41 AM on May 29, 2008

My God! It's full of stars!
posted by not_on_display at 9:41 AM on May 29, 2008

Some interesting stuff in the physics section. He could greatly improve the whole site just by killing the background images.
posted by autodidact at 10:00 AM on May 29, 2008

Needs more origami.
posted by storybored at 1:15 PM on May 29, 2008

Agreed. Web design, not so much, but web *content*, awesome.
posted by blm at 4:34 PM on May 29, 2008

Yay! Glad folks liked the content. I sure did. I tend to look past bad design if there's something stimulating to be had.
posted by owhydididoit at 5:08 PM on May 29, 2008

Imgladyoudidit.

Fantastic! Best comment of the month!

And this website, wow, psych-O-delic, baby!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 9:05 PM on May 29, 2008

My eyes! You made me read Bible verse owhydididoit. Oh why did you do it?
posted by three blind mice at 7:33 AM

It's a miracle! ;-)
posted by owhydididoit at 4:29 PM on May 30, 2008