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Insect flight patterns by Charlie McCarthy. [via]

Aug 1st

Cabin in the Woods

Aug 1st

Hide and Seek Festival London

Aug 1st

“Set up a PA system on a street corner where morning...”
— An idea from Andre Torrez.

Aug 1st

Listen

LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out. I wore this cassette out in the nine oh! [via]

Jul 31st

From the Holidaying Horrors series by Anthony Hibert as seen...

Jul 31st

Don’t want those pesky content ads showing up in your gmail account? Add a little horribleness...

Jul 31st

The BBC has a special series all about the sounds around us and how some are disappearing. [via]

Jul 31st

G.I. Joe always said Knowing is Half the Battle, now we know what the other half is. [via]

Jul 31st

Speech Debelle’s Black Cab Session is nice. Muchos tracks on the Hype Machine if you want...

Jul 31st

The World Discoverer was a cruise ship dedicated to explore...

Jul 30th

A nice house.

I see photo spreads of beautiful modernist homes like the Palabritas Beach house or the Skybox House...

Jul 30th

Hipster Job

Jul 30th

Fuji's new FinePix camera

Jul 30th

A sewer crab photographed by Mr. J Doe. [via]

Jul 29th

I’m putting The Mole People on my to-read list after this description of the book on The...

Jul 29th

Cover song face-off: a five year old doing Folsom Prison Blues or a Mariachi Band doing Sweet Home...

Jul 29th

See the whole Urbanization of Dubai series from NASA. [via]

Jul 28th

The Crow Paradox

Jul 28th

Mr. Bruce Lee by way of Bustler.

Jul 28th

A local farmer had found the mouth of Son Doong cave...

Jul 28th

things magazine tumblr

Jul 28th

We’ve had some pretty good thunderstorms the last...

Jul 27th

Don't Be So Square

Jul 27th

Walking for Walking In Los Angeles

Jul 26th

I think I may like it if Andrew WK was my local weatherman. I wonder what he would do with a...

Jul 26th

The icon key to the LA Times list of 61 essential postmodern...

Jul 26th

The ShakeItPhoto Best Of pool

Jul 26th

So this is how fortune cookies are made.

Jul 26th

This beast lives at a mini-golf joint down at the shore. A...

Jul 26th

A celebrity abandonment.

Go on a tour of R. Kelley’s old Chicago crib. A 10,000 square foot former church with a...

Jul 25th

Star Wars in thread.

Stitch Wars is described as “A group art exhibition featuring amazing handmade goods inspired...

Jul 25th

A movie for the blind.

City of God’s Son is a mix-tape, an opera, a book on tape (sans book), and kind of...

Jul 24th

We like to talk about poop.

I thought I was weird for still thinking poop jokes were funny at my advanced age (and supposed...

Jul 24th

The day that never was.

I threw my back out today. It happens about once a year. The middle of my back just goes into...

Jul 24th

A tour of the new NPR.org

Jul 24th

I ran across this photo I took about two years ago and...

Jul 23rd

If Man Walked on the Moon Today

Jul 23rd

One of Don Kenn’s wonderfully detailed post-it note...

Jul 23rd

Detexify

Jul 23rd

Earl Shaffer and the Appalachian Trail

Jul 23rd

The Newspaper Club

Jul 22nd

A Berlin park.

Spreepark is an abandoned amusement park located in Berlin. It comes complete with massive dinosaurs...

Jul 22nd

Dinos always = cool.

Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs is a short story about motorcycle riding dinos from Mars. Yes,...

Jul 22nd

Reading and writing online.

Jim Rossingnol shares his experience of writing a book after writing online for so long: As I...

Jul 21st

The 8-bit instrumental cover of Weezer’s El Scorcho is nice. Here be the original. [via]

Jul 21st

Get better MCA.

Here’s to a quick recovery for MCA (a.k.a. Adam Yauch) of the Beastie Boys who announced he...

Jul 21st

My boys.

I had a fun day goofing around with my boys.

Jul 20th

I’ve been involved in some bouts of fisticuffs in my day, but never in any like this.

Jul 20th

A simple request.

The simple design of the blog, A Kitchen Diary, had me clicking. Lazyweb, please make a Tumblr theme...

Jul 19th

I enjoyed this analysis of the origin of clipboard holding interns on a DC block. Bonus advice:...

Jul 19th

Watch

An amazing video of Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium by Jon Rawlinson. Rawlinson advises to “Give...

Jul 19th

Each hut comes equipped with a small refrigerator,...

Jul 19th

Listen

Wilco’s Kamera does make good Sunday music. By way of folkinz.

Jul 19th

“A Most Handsome Hero” by Matt Dangler from...

Jul 19th

A map of Utrecht, a fortress town in the Netherlands. Part...

Jul 19th

Head on over to Good.is to enjoy a nice animation for their water issue.

Jul 19th

Joe the Barbarian looks rad (yes, I said rad). [via]

Jul 18th

The first mountain bikes.

Klunkerz is documentary about the first “crazy hippies (their words, not mine) to build and...

Jul 18th

“Fun fact! If you bring snacks, people will want to be your...”
— Kevin (a.k.a fat manatee) is...

Jul 18th

El Matador.

This dude makes pink look bad ass! The sideburns help some.

Jul 17th

This Photo is by Jonas Bendiksen from his book ...

Jul 17th

“As today’s media landscape pulls us all towards trying...”
— From Jay Smooth’s video...

Jul 16th

Created by Ian Brignell. I have never though of the badass...

Jul 16th

“The NFL Players Association has advised players to save at...”
— Oh, that doesn’t sound...

Jul 16th

Gun play.

I don’t know about the song, but gawd damn I couldn’t peel my eyes away from the video...

Jul 16th

Bookmobile.

I have always wanted to open a used bookstore. It’s my dream job. I always envisioned a dusty...

Jul 16th

Donut roadtrip!

I’m tempted to drive to Kansas to get donuts from this joint. What? I really like donuts....

Jul 16th

Gorilla slide.

I would like to ride the Gorilla Slide.

Jul 16th

“Twitter is the internet equivalent of sticking your head...”
— A comment on Khoi Vinh’s...

Jul 16th

“I broke my jaw, nose, left eye socket, both cheeks, six ribs...”
— Jim Whimpey of Valhalla Island...

Jul 15th

No more driving.

I used to have a horrible commute. I spent at least 2 hours in the car on a daily basis. I often...

Jul 15th

A boy and his bigfoot.

Loren Coleman on how he started investigating cryptozoology cases when he was 12: I started...

Jul 15th

A flying kick to the head.

So this is why people love wrastlin’ (including me in my younger years). By the way, the guy...

Jul 15th

Be gone.

Up to $30,000 will get you the services of Frank Ahearn, a private eye who specializes in helping...

Jul 14th

The corner store.

A photographic history of Paul’s Boutique, the spot made famous by the cover of the Beastie...

Jul 14th

Fun with sparklers.

Jul 13th

Mad money schemes.

Speaking of mad billionaires. If I had loads of money to burn I think I would pay the Beastie Boys...

Jul 12th

“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what...”
— Desiderata

Jul 12th

We control the climate.

The Atlantic looks at geo-engineering ideas to save our ass from the coming environmental...

Jul 12th

A book about monsters.

Monster by A. Lee Martinez is a fun and fast read about a monster catcher who gets wrapped up in end...

Jul 12th

These playing pieces from my son’s The Very Hungry...

Jul 12th

The Economist let’s you look inside creative people’s work spaces. Not only cool in the...

Jul 11th

I never played Bio Menace, but these detailed level maps are...

Jul 11th

“Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad...”
— From the very long winded...

Jul 11th

I read this article about India re-introducing cheetahs into it’s wild after they were...

Jul 10th

The new carsonified.com is really effective. In just a couple of minutes I felt I got to the root of...

Jul 10th

He found a rock he though would make a great splash in the...

Jul 10th

Pop! That is too awesome.

Jul 10th

If Wes Anderson did an animated short I think it may turn out something like the Triumphant...

Jul 10th

Can you make an object’s monetary value increase just by writing a story about it?...

Jul 10th

Listen

Make The Loop Say Aye (OJ Da Juiceman vs Discovery) by way of The Hood Internet. P.S. check out non...

Jul 9th

Listen

Paper Underwear by David Holmes by way of this heist.

Jul 9th

I was exploring a trail for the first time when I ran across...

Jul 9th

It’s summer, you just want to kick back, smack your lips on some Milk Duds, and watch...

Jul 9th

“Now, watching television requires a complex orchestration of...”
— Khoi Vinh from The Living Room...

Jul 8th

I really liked this tiled sign for a vet’s office I...

Jul 7th

I love The Morning News’ list of the Best Worst Movies. I especially dig Erik Bryan’s...

Jul 7th

Re-ill.

The Beastie Boys have released the Ill Communication re-issue along with some fun web tchotchke like...

Jul 7th

I have never been so scared of Elmo.

Jul 7th

Listen

Gnarls Barkley - A Little Better. I already listened to this like five times. Via never capitalize.

Jul 6th

A site dedicated to highway rest areas. It’s a hell of a lot more interesting than it sounds....

Jul 6th

The recipe for a great caper is a seemingly impossible...

Jul 6th

Listen to this song while cruising through these photos. They seem to go together like peanut butter...

Jul 6th

We told my son to load his backpack up for a trip to...

Jul 5th

I really love the idea behind the Nintendo DS game, Treasure Hunter. The gist of which is that you...

Jul 5th

Tube app.

This iPhone app for finding London tube stations looks pretty cool. I hope this means more local or...

Jul 5th

We recently picked up the game Shut the Box from an awesome local toy store. I can’t tell you...

Jul 5th

I only want a flying car if it looks like this.

Jul 3rd

As metropolitan regions continued to expand throughout the...

Jul 3rd

I woke up really early this morning and I couldn’t go...

Jul 3rd

Listen

Los Campesinos! » You! Me! Dancing! by way of mr. jones

Jul 3rd

Some nice tips for Twitter search. My favorite is the syntax for plucking links from Twitter:...

Jul 2nd

Watch

My friend Keri has amazingly answered the question I asked about the about the TV show with a story...

Jul 2nd

“Snapshots encourage memories, videos replace them. After...”
— From Rules of Thumb. [via]

Jul 2nd

I forgot I took this while camping at the beach. The clouds...

Jul 2nd

“FEED is a book about politics, corruption, presidential campaigns, journalism, integrity,...

Jul 2nd

View an ant at 400 times it’s normal size. Very cool. Make sure you check out the snapshots...

Jul 2nd

A hole to hell?

I saw this photo of a hole by Daneil Augschöll and it reminded me of an old TV show I saw. In the...

Jul 2nd