@random

2009

2008

2007

How to Bake Pumpkin Seeds
Oct 31st
A lonely couch I saw on the side of the road.
Oct 27th
Zombie City, U.S.A.
Oct 27th
Fake AP Stylebook
Oct 27th
Locust Point, Ohio
Oct 26th
Biking Coal Country's Forgotten Rail Tracks...
Oct 26th
No Direction, Period.
Oct 26th
Some extra blue sky from a recent walk.
Oct 25th
All Hallows’
Oct 25th
The Letter L
Oct 25th
My o My
Oct 25th
Spurb
Oct 25th
a scary book made for campfires
Oct 25th
important reading: the toys r us catalog came in the mail...
Oct 25th
A triceratops
Oct 25th
It Happened To Me!
Oct 25th
Unique 1965 Dodge Deora Concept
Oct 25th
Wrapping Up: A genre ages out.
Oct 25th
A Stain do so tell a Story
Oct 25th

the dream man.

Thousands of people are dreaming about one man. He comforts, guides, even has sex with them. A...
Oct 24th
“It would be revealing to compile an alternative history of...”
— From Must We Have Bad Music in...
Oct 24th
Trails on Mars’ surface caused by ” …...
Oct 23rd
Comicskine
Oct 23rd
Does anyone like 3-D?
Oct 22nd
I had wondered aloud about the origin of this photo and the...
Oct 22nd
Vintage Pontiac Silver Streak hood ornament by quigley...
Oct 22nd
“I’m about to head up to the attic right now to find...”
— From It’s Decorative...
Oct 22nd
A Potrait of America Left Behind
Oct 22nd
A particle God doesn’t want us to discover
Oct 22nd

Music for autumn.

Wilco’s music seems to be a good match for Autumn. Especially Side with the Seeds, which...
Oct 21st

Off the roof.

A good old fashion roof to pool diving from Day19’s Summer Close. [via]
Oct 21st

He's astronaut cool.

I have no idea what the origin of this photo is, but it’s phenomenal.
Oct 21st

On a jet plane.

Back in September Alaska Miller started a trip where he flew for thirty one straight days. A month...
Oct 20th

Candygrams.

Jackpot by John Gruber is another awesome guest article about candy on Jason Santa Maria’s...
Oct 20th
red, white, and blue. the hayride tractor from our pumpkin...
Oct 20th
“The beginning and the end are my two favorite times of the...”
— Shawn Blanc. Couldn’t...
Oct 20th
Listen Listen
The Afterlife by Yacht [via]
Oct 20th
Listen Listen
Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel [via]
Oct 20th
Listen Listen
Prom Zombies by Stellastar [via]
Oct 20th
From a walk in the woods today.
Oct 19th

Not so wild things.

The New Yorker says Where the Wild Things Are was “designed for older children and...
Oct 18th

The new localism.

This Newsweek article portends an interesting idea called new localism: The basic premise: the...
Oct 18th

The bouncing pebble toad.

Most toads can hop away from danger, this one has a different escape plan. Watch the video. [via]
Oct 17th

This shit is bananas.

Did you know that the Cavendish bananas (the type of banana Americans generally eat) are in danger?...
Oct 17th

Unlucky.

Richard Wiseman has been studying lucky and unlucky people for a decade. Unlucky people often fail...
Oct 17th

Yippee ki-yay mother futon.

Check out this prequel to the Die Hard movies done in comic book form. It follows John McClane as a...
Oct 17th

I would eat here.

Best name for a restaurant I’ve heard today: Kung Food.
Oct 16th
Listen Listen
Body - Thao [via mr. jones]
Oct 16th
“Watching our peers’ lives is the closest we can come to a...”
— Tim Kreider from The...
Oct 16th
Dummy Text Generator
Oct 15th
The future Department of Homeland Security HQ
Oct 15th
Listen Listen
The Avalanches - Since I Left You [via]
Oct 14th

Gregarious birds.

For my other blog I’m always monitoring local press releases for any interesting content....
Oct 14th

An x-mas list.

Simon Cook has made some excellent (and free) Christmas list cheat sheets. While you are there check...
Oct 14th

Let's talk about the weather.

I load up my iGoogle page and all I see is a string of these little buggers in the forecast …...
Oct 14th
This piece of excellence is by Vivian Maier. Who dat you...
Oct 14th

That's me.

I had everything in this photo. The tube socks, Velcro shoes, OP shorts, and Millennium Falcon.
Oct 13th

School books.

Maybe if my copies of these staple high school English lit books looked this good I wouldn’t...
Oct 13th
Halloween decorations hung? Check!
Oct 11th
“I never long for real cigarettes, but I do sometimes pine...”
— From All Things Nice.
Oct 11th

What's that sound in my car?

There should be a website that allows people to submit or search for audio files of odd sounds their...
Oct 11th

Crap grenade.

My new favorite phrase is crap grenade. Let’s use it in a sentence: Like Toyota in the...
Oct 11th
Rolling down East Street. A snap from this morning’s...
Oct 9th

A card for any occasion.

I was shopping for a birthday card with my son recently and we spent the majority of our time...
Oct 9th
Listen Listen
I Want To Burn You Down by Mike Doughty from his new album Sad Man Happy Man. [via]
Oct 8th

White tv.

Esquire wonders how network television has somehow become even whiter. It’s a good question...
Oct 8th

Giant marionettes.

After looking at the amazing photos of The Berlin Reunion on The Big Picture I wanted to see the...
Oct 8th

Chicken fighter.

Don’t ask, just clicketh the link.
Oct 8th

Owl in a box.

A women finds an injured owl on the side of the road and manages to get it to an animal rescue...
Oct 8th
We went camping this weekend with some friends and I snapped...
Oct 7th
Let Love Rule
Oct 7th
Super Better - or how to turn recovery into a...
Oct 7th
Are we too old to trick or treat?
Oct 6th
The Wild Things’ Forts Contest
Oct 6th
ABEXXXploitation
Oct 6th
Playgrounds From the 70's
Oct 6th
The moon is crazy big tonight. Photo courtesy of my wife.
Oct 5th

Yarnbombing.

The word of the day is yarnbombing. It’s an “urban outdoor art movement” that...
Oct 5th
This is a scene from the Blu-ray edition of The Wizard of...
Oct 5th
By Doug Dubois [via]
Oct 4th
Free Beats
Oct 2nd
Lesser-known spooky and/or mysterious...
Oct 2nd

A shout from things.

One of my most favorite online publications, Things Magazine, gave @random a tiny little link wave...
Oct 2nd