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.
Let’s just get one thing straight, NO ONE needs steam-punk themed luxury condos. Incidentally: artificial leaches and other failed Victorian inventions. Let’s all take a trip through PT Anderson’s San…
Albert Einstein tells Marie Curie to ignore the haters. This just in: sea caves are neat. Walter Pichler’s wearable architecture. Crabs understand the importance of not dancing in time. And…
Breaking: the NSA are big nerds who used to write communist fan fiction. Breaking: electric eels are nuts! It’s time to count a jar of coins on the internet for…
Here is a story about some stolen brains in Texas. And here is a photo-essay about them. Thanks ants for keeping New York streets hotdog free. Thants. I almost forgot…
You most certainly need a sonic guide to afrofuturism in your life. Photographing London’s lost female subcultures. Elsewhere missing: New York’s lost museums. Obviously reading fiction makes you a better…
Hello there, eight new spiders. It’s almost 2015, where’s my floating French super city? Here’s your psych ward ruin porn for the week. Plankton! Are neat! And now, accidental deaths…
I’m back! For real! NASA’s abandoned launch pads. (Seriously internet, am I that predictable?) This NY Times article on the significance of passwords is pretty great! Seriously everyone, bullying is…
Will return on Tuesday as we prepare to move back across this fine country of ours. In the meantime here’s a short article about Gorbachev the Twin Peaks fanatic.
Maybe you’d like to watch all 15 of the International Space Station’s 15 daily sunsets? Very old Danish footprints. The question on everyone’s minds: what became of India’s corpse-eating turtles?…
We’re getting closer and closer to turning chickens back into dinosaurs. The future is filled with floating public parks. The fake future is filled with robotic hunting devices. It’s hard…
Today in mild alarmism: your iphone is injuring your kids. Ballets Russes on the beach. The only guaranteed form of hippo birth control is hippo abstinence. Cosmonauts were just so…