Isn’t that how we all feel sometimes? More here.

Or: Looks like someone caught the Love Bug! (Get it?)

Seriously, for real.

Religious buildings built out of guns and ammo.

I can’t get enough of Tara Donovan’s work, so I was excited to see a new series of pin placements, like so: …more

Even in the aftermath of an unprecedented earthquake: …more

I’m glad there’s a wikipedia entry for 5,318,008 = BOOBIES, and many other entertainments from algebra class:

Being shaped like Foghorn Leghorn: …more

More kissing in public means change in Mexico.

Or maybe the Gulf? Either way, Iran before the Chadoor: …more

Because last year’s floods drove the spiders to the trees, which now look like this: …more

Hideaki Akaiwa used scuba gear to navigate tsunami-submerged city to rescue his wife, and days later, his mother.

Stirring but brief portrait of the 50 Japanese nuclear plant workers crawling in the darkness, exposing themselves to radiation, in desperate attempt to stave of nuclear meltdown.

Do you miss Beanie Babies? Get ready for a booster shot.

Simen Johan’s Until the Kingdom Comes: …more

Photographer Irina Werning recreates childhood photos.

They look like this and speak volumes about youth, adulthood, and all that’s in between: …more

Why aren’t more people talking about Ghaddafi’s elite team of virginal super soldiers?

We all knew Ghaddafi was a megalomanaical and evil dictator with a flair for fashion. But who knew he could combine all his interests in one stroke of evil genius with the Amazonian Guard, a team of hand-picked, martial arts-trained, marksman virgins in matching berets? So crazy it’s true: …more

Richard Conniff, author of The Species Seekers, found himself, while researching that book, cataloging the strange deaths of many naturalists over the past two centuries.

He compiled them on his website. It makes for fascinating reading. Among my favorites: …more

Portugal has a new, staple-stitched, full-color, full-bleed newspaper that was just voted the best designed paper in the world: …more

A photographic series by Alex Soth.

Collections of imagery culled from Google Street View have been around for some time now, but Jon Rafman has the best eye for discerning the funny, surprising, and poignant moments captured by what amounts to the most extensive documentary photography project of all time.

Google’s endless mechanized street surveillance is the ultimate photographer: fast, tireless, nearly everywhere, and often invisible, allowing a candid glimpse of the world that would be distorted or even prevented altogether by the presence of a person pointing a lens. With no active photographer, the camera makes no decisions; the beauty is all in the editing, and that’s what Rafman is so good at.

Some recent favorites: …more

The only problem with naming your new weapons system “Gorgon Stare” as the Air Force has done: Medusa’s lapidogenic vision was actually used against her.

In fact, it was classic asymmetrical warfare: the vastly more powerful Gorgon’s Stare against mortal little Perseus and his shield. But the Perseus was smart, his shield was shiny, and Medusa’s strength became her downfall. Maybe not the most portentous title for a “mission-critical battlespace implement” to be deployed in Afghanistan?

“A HARDSTYLE fractal tierzon fractal, blender rendered diamond animation. Live trumpet live drums, synthesized bass.”

In Tokyo, at the Shibuya Station, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko who would come and greet his master every day after week, even after his master died. …more

The epic, in (surprising metaphorically effective) 8-bit-ification.

It was inevitable, given the viral spread of the Gathering ’09′s infomercial last year, that some enterprising and well-vaccinated media types would show up and see it for themselves. I wish I could have gone. …more

Butts Arrested in Boob Murder Case!

Such as:

1. Why are there two camels in a tiny car?

2. How does one get two camels in a tiny car?

And the most important question: …more

Porn has returned to the streets of Baghdad, signaling success for Operation Enduring Freedom, or whatever the American military effort is called. Mission Finally Accomplished!