Dan Weiss

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 sketches. The Awl on the golden age of dirty talk.

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, but man these pictures of Parisian theatres are pretty great.…

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 a fax.

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. Also, let’s talk about early American mastodon hunting. Things Magazine…

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 your Soviet design for the week.

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 computer simulation. Again, maybe a lot of things. I’m sure…

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 Cocteau, what will we do with you? I think we…

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. the Pergamon World Atlas (here’s your flickr set for the…

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 safety of your smart phone. A little Friday Swiss midcentury…

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 based art is the best art. That last link led…

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 happy all the time there is something wrong with your…

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 the deal: maybe there used to be giant octopuses, and…