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NY Times slide show on Conrad Gessner’s beastiaries. Anyone want to go live in a sweet cave house with me? Important advances in the field of robot journalism. I’ve often…
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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.
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MOMA has acquired the @ symbol. Way to go MOMA. Another reason why India is going to take over the world. Super rad photographs of childhood fantasies. Look, I’m not…
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It is important to remember that the world can be pretty ok. Oh hey tiny robot fish, what’s up? Did you know there was an Art Handling Olympics? Presumably you…
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A visual history of tourism ads. The Ghost Orchid has risen from the dead. And as long as we’re on the subject: the Pompeii fast food establishment Thermopolium is set…
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Big Picture has a rad look at the buildings of the shanghai expo. US vs UK book covers, no-holds-barred cage match. I heart Japanese train station design. There is no…
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Dolphins are really tired of all this “trying to swim with them” crap. Looking for a job? Flavorwire wants to show you their favorite pieces of SoCal architecture. Exploring the…
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Spring! (almost) 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…
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A little political guerrilla satire to start off your Tuesday: the first corporate candidate. I don’t understand the sudden influx in vintage match boxes online, but I am in favor…
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Farewell ABE. (bonus sublink: the 50 best robots ever.) Fine BBC reportage: zebra stares into the mouth of death. I would like very much to live inside Ken Russell’s 1950s…