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.
So precious it hurts: microscopic origami. A concise listing of man’s landings on celestial bodies (via Boingboing.) Oh hey recycled boat, what’s up with you? GerryCanavan Points us to the…
The Japanese are better at solar power than the rest of us. Tokujin Yoshioka’s rainbow church. Inhabitat brings you the book cell (thank you for this). Why yes, I would…
The tragedy of umbrella genocide. If you should find yourself in Ahrensburg, Germany, perhaps you’d like to check out the Flour Art Museum. Also, in the above situation, you’d probably…
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist…
Time photo-essay on zebra-relocation. They have to be relocated somehow you know? Liechetenstein! (I don’t know why I linked to this either) We here at M.C. headquarters are big fans…
Scientifically speaking, we are all really boring. I don’t really understand how this works at all, but the code organ is a mighty fine way to kill some time. Diary…
Start your weekend off with some fine Victorian era photographs of Japan. The Guardian UK takes a look at unreliable narrators. Jeez, stop talking about the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World…
Robert Voit’s new trees. Crazy rad optical illusion sculpture schizophrenia test! If I understand this correctly, prosecutors are charging half eaten hamburgers with murder (note: this is a gross misread…
A little architecture porn to start your day, coming to you from Turkey, Japan, and Wayne Coyne’s heroin soaked brain. Evidently there is some sort of sporting event going on…
David Maisel’s epic aerial-photography (is good). NPR wants to convince you that you should be into macaroons. I’m willing to listen. A brief history of pretty much everything. Seed Magazine…