Dan Weiss is a professional bookseller, amateur dilettante. He writes and plays in the band The Yellow Dress. He firmly believes that everything is going to be okay.
Here’s your bad ass fossil for the week. Frankly Belgium has had enough of you kids free-loading at storytime. The world of early man grows more diverse every year. Let’s…
Fare thee well, Encyclopedia Britannica. Perhaps you’d like to buy a town. Let us now discuss nomad planets. Russian stone age cartoons. It’s exciting to keep up with the highline…
This week in um…: you see homeless people I see 4g wireless opportunity. Zhang Kechun’s pictures of the Yellow River are pretty dang incredible. Within five years there will be…
Cavemen may have been way more literate than previously thought. SPACE TRAIN YOU GUYS. Also here are some ghost cars. Sometimes you just want to make music with fruits. Floods…
I’m going to be away from the internet for a couple days, I’ll miss you all dearly. Let’s all celebrate 10 years of awesome Envisat images! 19th century gloves as…
It’s science! People are too dumb for democracy. The world is running out of whimsical ideas. Guerrilla street furniture. The future is self-cleaning. Here’s your Soviet monument/ruin porn for the…
The 1940s were a dangerous time for bicycling. They were, however, a great time for zoo maps. So, uh, diamond weevils huh? Today in dolphins-are-hella-smart: they greet each other by…
Take your pick: 50’s insurance company ephemera, or 60’s anti-drug illustration. Um, hello, ghost dragon hunter. Fact: Samuel Beckett gave Andre the Giant rides to school. Neanderthals were much better…
Clearly birds are the greatest copyright violators of them all. Here’s that 1970s Japanese children’s space book you requested. All the antique machinery engravings one could hope for. There are…
There was supposed to be a theme today, but then this robot controlling monkey ruined everything. Welcome to Google Seaview. Let’s all watch a lionfish hunt. This is probably really…
Explore the inhabitable universe, right here on earth! Don’t be such a jerk, elephant. How about some classic Southern California swimming pool photography. Tiny tiny ancient horses. Hurray for brain…
You might think that flying squids are cool, but really they are just lazy jerks. Even more (significantly less) old science books. Today is perhaps a good day to think…