Electric Eel Shock’s almost made its goal of raising $50 000 on Sellaband. Buy a stake in the band for $10 and you’ll get EES’s next record. Not a bad deal!

One learns fascinating thing on the Internet; things, perhaps, that one wouldn’t want to. While the art of perfumery isn’t exactly the worst of them, and I deny that I’m affronted by its intricacies, I do wonder if I really wanted to know its, uh, animalistic side.

“It is a classic French way to make perfume,” he says, referring to animalic scents, the basest base notes. Civet oil, which is drawn from the anal gland of the civet cat, and which is said to smell a bit like blood. Castoreum, the animalic note in Cruel Intentions by Kilian, which comes from a gland in the guts of a beaver. Perfume critic Chandler Burr has said that it smells of “leather, urine, smokey tar and of anus.

Via Untoward.

Markosamuli is tagging up the shapes of the neighborhoods of Helsinki on Google Maps. Where one area ends and another begins is an eternal topic of debate. Maps are rarely consulted in these debates, though, so maybe this is a first step in achieving a “groupthunk” or crowdsourced conclusion.

While I’ve tried many different ways of making favicons, I prefer — and would recommend — creating PNGs and then converting them using png2ico. I’m still on the fence whether bundling a 32x32 pixel version pays off. On one hand, it’s “invisible” and available in cases where it’d make sense; on the other hand, it’s just extra bits to send down the wire.

Joko sinä olet tilannut Lehden ennakkoon? 250 muuta on, vielä saman verran lisää tarvitaan.