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My wife went to see U2 last night and snapped this photo of...
Oct 1st
The Airstream Life
Sep 30th
In 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger flew 30km...
Sep 30th
We are colorblind.com
Sep 30th
The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution
Sep 30th

Welcome to the hotel california.

Around noon today my Mom was walking back to her shop after picking up some lunch. She tripped on...
Sep 29th
Some odd plants we saw on tonight’s evening stroll.
Sep 28th
That’s me! Or at least my shadow. Taken 8/30/09.
Sep 27th
Metal shavings. Taken 8/30/09.
Sep 27th
A sunny day by the river. Taken 9/13/09.
Sep 27th
These birds are usually here at each sunset. It’s a...
Sep 27th
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do....”
— An edited bit from High...
Sep 27th
Listen Listen
I’ve had Waiting for My Ruca by Sublime stuck in my head ever since I clicked the tiny little...
Sep 27th
Between the rain and my dog’s bum foot (got a nail...
Sep 27th
Experibass
Sep 26th
The Attic Door
Sep 26th

Food coma.

I took my son to see Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs this afternoon. I think it’s going to...
Sep 26th
Sensing your arrival by lepiaf.geo. So very cool.
Sep 26th
Hobbit 419
Sep 26th
“Seriously, whenever I think about living in the future, I...”
— Jim Chaney
Sep 26th
International Emergency Sci-Fi Unit
Sep 25th
MD 48 / Unimog U 2450 L 38
Sep 25th
Data Set #1 from singstatistics. This data refers to the...
Sep 24th
“After the Apocalypse, some of us are going to have to get by...”
— Sweet Juniper
Sep 24th

Hova didn't want 'em, but I do.

Alex Goose has posted the tracks he created for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 album. All instrumental,...
Sep 24th
Listen Listen
Son of Byford by Run-DMC. From a selection of songs all less than a minute long.
Sep 24th

An odd little vegetable.

NPR sings the praises of okra and I have to agree. My Mom (the daughter of a southern short-order...
Sep 24th

Original Beasties.

Original Ill is a bootleg of the demo for License to Ill and includes some un-released gems. Thanks...
Sep 24th
From The Little Town That Los Angeles Killed.
Sep 24th
The fire eater
Sep 23rd
Aurora Over Yellowknife
Sep 23rd
Dustday in laundry by Mezza. From a collection of photos of...
Sep 23rd
Sci-Fi Road Trips Map (.pdf)
Sep 23rd
Listen Listen
Ryan Adams - Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains) [via]
Sep 23rd
Small Chair
Sep 23rd
Mutiny Bikes "Let's Get Mystical" Trailer
Sep 23rd
This is Blackwolf the Dragonmaster. His photo is part of the...
Sep 22nd
I won a $30 million lottery jackpot
Sep 22nd
Listen Listen
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around. I can’t listen to it without thinking of the title...
Sep 21st
A Bicycle Superhighway With Timed Lights for...
Sep 21st
Propr
Sep 21st
Black and blue Ford, Castro District, 1997 by Joe Stevens...
Sep 21st
“Stop talking to the TV. They aren’t real people; they...”
— My son to me during the...
Sep 20th
Paranormal Activity
Sep 20th
Cave Divers Risk Their Lives to Explore the...
Sep 20th
Village of the Damned
Sep 20th
Look: The beast came at me out of the morning sun. Snorting,...
Sep 19th
Dust is an odd project by Ujin Lee and Tom Edwards. Very...
Sep 19th

Underwater basket weaving.

MeFi asks “How did “underwater basket weaving” become the quintessential useless...
Sep 19th
Love this Galactus and Silver Surfer illustration by Mihajlo...
Sep 19th
Listen Listen
Jaydiohead’s Change Order was my favorite song today. It made a great soundtrack for my cloudy...
Sep 19th
I saw this snapping turtle at a local park. His moss covered...
Sep 18th
Warch Watch
Good Friends, Bad Habits by Owen. Reminds me of my 20s. If you diggith you may download more here....
Sep 18th
Listen Listen
Monsters of Folk - Slow Down Jo. [via]
Sep 18th
“McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin With Egg, beloved by the...”
— From Dude, It Adds Up: A Mom...
Sep 18th
I saw a link to Ghana In Fog by Paul Octavious on Coudal....
Sep 18th
“Be human. Stop hiding. Be yourself.”
— From You’re a little...
Sep 17th
I was messing around with my wife’s camera the other...
Sep 17th
This 1,000 square-foot weekend cabin, basically a steel box...
Sep 17th
To make things worse, our kids always insist on sleeping ON...
Sep 17th
My son leaves toys on my night stand. It’s a good...
Sep 16th
The Beastie Boys continue their re-issue marathon with Hello...
Sep 16th
A very nice cover (sans dust jacket) from a 1942 edition of...
Sep 16th
There’s no question that sky serpents, if not as ubiquitous...
Sep 16th
The Black Keys - Here I Am I Always Am
Sep 15th

Testing, testing.

Did you know Gmail let’s you add an extension to your email address with a plus sign? For...
Sep 15th
Paw print.
Sep 15th
Should I wallow in the loss of my not so beloved Washington Redskins by listening to sports talk...
Sep 14th
Our trip to the giant slide.
Sep 14th
The funk of forty thousand years taken with an E-P1 camera.
Sep 14th
Squeak the dog looks like a natural talent.
Sep 14th
Summer Night
Sep 13th
Saw this spider web up in a tree while walking the doggy dog...
Sep 13th
The Slider of Trust
Sep 12th
'Haunted' Indian station reopens
Sep 12th
The 3/50 Project
Sep 12th
Text T for totally implausible
Sep 12th

Diorama makers.

I snapped this shot of a WWII diorama at my local library this spring. I love these dioramas and...
Sep 12th
This Lego Boba Fett costume is freakin’ excellent.
Sep 12th
This amazing image was created by applying an electrical charge from a 400,000-volt generator...
Sep 12th
Cheese & Burger sure is purty. This nice piece of food porn comes by way of Broken Kode.
Sep 12th
Haasbroek’s alphabet illustrations are simply awesome. T is in the lead for my favorite...
Sep 11th

No trains, no automobiles.

Pages and pages of glorious test planes. I like the extensive tagging of posts (e.g. octopi). Via...
Sep 11th

This is my brain at lunch.

The Great Lunchtime Battle occurs in my tummy every day around 11:30 AM to decide what is for lunch....
Sep 11th
From soccer last week.
Sep 11th

Secret identities.

A good friend loaned me Identity Crisis over the weekend and I finished reading it today. The basic...
Sep 11th

Where I work.

I really like Kottke’s idea of calling companies that produce “small quantities of high...
Sep 11th

A vortex of odd.

Sweet Juniper describes the exhibits in Upstate New York’s The Magic Forest: The...
Sep 11th

Little tiny graves.

I really dig the Grave Graveyard hanging terrarium orb. Esty is gold mine of odd Halloween fun.
Sep 10th

Fall back.

This little snippet from Recovering Lazyholic … Now, I’m ready for cool breezes,...
Sep 10th

Lunchboxed.

I can almost smell the rusty metal, stained with cherry Kool-Aid, and the taint of 100 warm Bologna...
Sep 10th
A shot from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). I vividly...
Sep 9th
REM Island: Recycling Pirate Architecture
Sep 9th
21st-century Legos
Sep 9th

The grocery list.

I just found a receipt from a trip my son and I took to the grocery store. We purchased the...
Sep 8th
This little beast ended up climbing on my wife’s...
Sep 8th

Fishstick.

We’re watching a fish for a friend. The friend told my son he could name the fish since he...
Sep 8th
Have you ever played with these magnet toys? They are...
Sep 6th
A Mugging on Lake Street
Sep 6th
We got him a new bone and he was in heaven.
Sep 6th

The nap.

I just had one those naps. A mid-afternoon snoozer on the couch. The light from the open window...
Sep 6th
Where the moo-moos roam.
Sep 6th
Music for your coffee
Sep 5th
Yes, it’s true. I have an extreme fetish for black pens....
Sep 5th
Neil Gaiman's Bookshelfs
Sep 5th
In the Shadows We Are Free, and I Walk You...
Sep 5th
He wasn’t digging soccer too much, but some Mom hugs...
Sep 5th
The American Festivals Project
Sep 4th
The sling shot man
Sep 4th
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
Sep 4th

The new tourism.

I was looking at Sweet Juniper’s collection of feral houses in Detroit and a sick thought...
Sep 3rd
Thirty Minutes a Day
Sep 3rd
Web Trend Map
Sep 3rd
Suburban Tipi
Sep 2nd
Karate Stance
Sep 2nd
Alberto Cerriteño’s contribution to Terrible Yellow...
Sep 2nd
The Aerocycle
Sep 2nd
Listen Listen
Booty Groove is one of the tracks from Double Check Your Head. A free album that re-mixes the songs...
Sep 2nd
Recycled Cycle Bottle Opener
Sep 2nd
“If you scoff at how stupid the advertising is - then it is...”
— A commenter on MetaFilter
Sep 1st