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.
Hey you guys, it’s totally almost Halloween. The mystery of the rapidly inflating volcano. I don’t really know about this whole “agriculture” thing. Let’s take a look at Sylvia Plath’s…
Since they don’t have space shuttles to occupy their time, NASA is thinking about space poop. Tiny tiny murder victims. I try not to link to things in different languages,…
Let’s take a moment to celebrate the expired LEGO patent. Airplane graveyards are pretty great, agreed? Death masks are a thing Everyone loves mid-century pharmaceutical ads. David Foster Wallace sends…
Perhaps you’d like to see from whence your commercial space flights will be taking off. 1) There is such a thing as “mountain beavers“. 2) They used to eat lava.…
Here are some very sad toys. This old map of Australia is pretty dang great. Understanding the mysteries of vampire stars. Art of the British General Post Office. And now…
The future of camouflage lies in Octopuses. This kind of thing is my favorite kind of thing: Captain Scott’s lost photographs. Maybe we are all living inside a future civilization’s…
Can we just agree that being buried alive is the scariest possible thing? Occupy the Tundra! Maybe we live inside a black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Oh Jean…
Let’s all take a moment out of our day to appreciate old Welsh pop albums. If you can steal an entire bridge I’m pretty sure it legally belongs to you.…
As it turns out, the T-rex was more bad ass than we’d ever imagined. Good news everyone, now you can chart the Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s progress from the…
The Big Picture on Occupy Everywhere (I love you Big Picture). Department of things-to-buy-me-please: The Keaton Music Typewriter. Sentimental Cartography. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, slide…
Last night was the smallest full moon of the year. yep. On the apocalyptic architecture of seedbanks. Here are some bird logos of the 60s and 70s. If you are…
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: maybe Columbus discovered Syphilis too! Have you always wished you could be shot out of a gun after you die? Good news! So here’s…