US vs UK book covers, no-holds-barred cage match.

I heart Japanese train station design.

There is no good reason not to look at pictures of the Great Western Alpaca Show.

The phrase of the day is “deadly insect ejaculate.”

Looking for a job?

Flavorwire wants to show you their favorite pieces of SoCal architecture.

Exploring the world of Arabic design. (via JourneyRoundMySkull.)

On the personhood of animals.

German prison cells are mostly nicer than my apartment.

Words get in David Byrne’s way.

Technically this is about old type interfaces, but let’s be honest here it’s just typewriter design porn.

The sun is out today, and this house’s above ground pool is all sorts of appealing.

What this country needs: Jonathan “the impaler” Sharkey, America’s first vampire president.

Could there be a second, EVIL sun? (There totally could!)

I don’t understand the sudden influx in vintage match boxes online, but I am in favor of it.

The world’s first building with built-in wind turbines has been completed. Another life goal dashed.

Christoph Niemann finds his way.

Evidence for life on Mars has maybe been staring us in the face (like a jerk).

Fine BBC reportage: zebra stares into the mouth of death.

I would like very much to live inside Ken Russell’s 1950s London photography.

“This dude has got some sick giraffe shots.”

Mental Floss on some very special library collections.

Snakes’ heat vision works on the same principle that we taste wasabi. I knew it!

I am pretty sure at least one of these things will make you happy.

Start your weekend off in an appropriately dark place with images of public execution in the old west.

Antique camera porn.

A little whimsical art: fully rad feather sculptures, Klara Reis’ petri dish paintings, and the art of chess.

The golden age of space design.

Nothing yet? How about some fluffy avocado pound cake then?

We usually try to stay away from commercial stuff like this, but we think it’s pretty rad that Tropicana literally built a sun to make their point.

A very important tutorial: how to use a semicolon.

Cleveland mall farm!

Nobel laureate Lolcats : the internet is up for the Peace Prize.

Pretty much the weirdest headline I’ve read today.

“I could really use a bad-ass architecture based link.” How about this water-purifying skyscraper?

“I dunno, do you have anything involving quarries?” Oh, here you go.

Abandoned mattresses.

It is hard to argue with 8-bit NYC.

By the way, if you live in New York, you should probably go see Olafur Eliasson’s new installation (for free!).

A look at NASA’s very first wind tunnel (old science is the best kind of science).

It’s Tuesday so I’m going to end this with a video of monkeys digging through jello and there is nothing you can do about that.