Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the wi-fi dowsing rod (this is what it’s come to). Eeee! Dinosaur footprints! Atlas Obscura’s 31 days of Halloween project brings LA’s Sowden House. Perhaps it is time to…
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Dan Weiss
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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.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s getting sort of list-y around here. It’s time for 2012’s endangered places, and the winners of this year’s Nikon Small World contest! Mother Jones on cephalopods and political cartoons.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How did people call each other terrible before Hitler? Perhaps you’d like to look at some solar prominences. The phrase of the week is “speculative polar cartography“. And some good…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you are curious about that Physics Nobel Prize they gave out yesterday. Thank you for this: mid-century sci-fi illustration! While we’re on the subject, perhaps you have wondered what…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to award a dead guy, Nobel Prize committee! Robot umbilical chords are sort of unfortunate. Eeeee! Cosmonaut return vessel graveyard! The time has come for earthscrapers. I am a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In the year 2000 we will all drive Pussycars. Atlas Obscura wants to take you on a tour of Lovecraftian locales. There are people who dedicate themselves to writing about…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This has been a morbid week: the last minutes of famous people’s lives. On Fridays, sometimes you just want to watch Indonesian wildlife. The temple of muses (classy guys, way…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the week is an awesome photo-collection of old tvs. Tiny tiny England, 1930s style! Why are men terrible? Maybe evolution? Behold the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m not going to lie to you, I think pictures of taxidermy are way more wonderful than actual taxidermy. Anarchy (covers)! In the future we will all commute by private…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun fact: a couple years ago scientists found a dodo bird mass grave! (via Atlas Obscura.) Important: Johnny Cash was a pretty great dude. Important: North Korea is awe inspiring…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The positive side of global warming is that sea life is gonna get a lot cuter. Here are some Norwegian lamps. The Youtube videos of our minds (this is amazing,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is pretty delightful: Women of the Future (1902). Egypt has some pretty cool pigeon houses. It is probably time to redesign the way the NY subway works. Holy cow,…