Mmm, web fruit

April 14, 2015 7:06 PM

Fruits of the Web is a blog that takes the often clunky and goofy world of scientific modeling out of context, reveling in the surreal effects of block men ironing, masks of points, and skeletons shoveling. Thankfully, they also tend to post source articles and videos so you can find out just why someone would make something like that. They also post other web ephemera, like strange Easter gifs and whatnot. Overall, just a nice little cornucopia of oddities. Occasionally slightly not work safe.
posted by codacorolla (11 comments total)

I'm pretty sure that skeleton is actually not shoveling but pitching. Or at least it seemed that way before the animated background started to bring on eldritch visions and I had to close the tab.
posted by RogerB at 7:46 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]

Dagh! I got the wrong hyperlink. A shoveling skeleton, as advertised.
posted by codacorolla at 7:55 PM on April 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

Tumblr is just such the perfect place to store things that are incredible when removed from any context. It's like the scientific research version of outofcontextjojo.tumblr.com
posted by DoctorFedora at 8:17 PM on April 14, 2015

This is amazing. If anyone else finds the background gives them a headache, you can tack "/mobile" on to the end of the url, although in a sense it kind of loses a little of that je ne sais quoi.
posted by capricorn at 8:21 PM on April 14, 2015 [1 favorite]

AAAAUGH! The TEETH!
[My ancient iPad thanks you, capricorn!]
posted by mon-ma-tron at 9:05 PM on April 14, 2015

Lisa needs braces!
posted by smcameron at 10:31 PM on April 14, 2015 [3 favorites]

Barbara sucks at jumping.
posted by maryr at 10:54 PM on April 14, 2015

That shoveling skeleton is going to have horrific back issues... though I guess if you don't got muscles to pull, you ain't gonna pull them.
posted by psoas at 1:50 AM on April 15, 2015

Is that how you're supposed to use an iron? I've always moved it with the point facing forward. Hunh.
posted by newpotato at 4:15 AM on April 15, 2015

BTW, I love this.
posted by newpotato at 4:16 AM on April 15, 2015

tumblr can step off, as the yugo has been exceeding in this very area for decades, if not centuries:

http://www.ricedoutyugo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=237&page=10&pp=25
posted by RTQP at 10:20 AM on April 15, 2015