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Walter Green
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This artist, Ben Wilson, paints great “miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum.” “The Earliest War Photography From Afghanistan” taken during the late 1800s. These pop-up books are totally nutso. Peep at them! The internet has so much good…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is fun. Is life about having fun? Spot the fake smile. This website of — I guess — design-inspiration makes for a fun scroll through. An Ambitious Project Collapsing. Isaac Fitzgerald, of The Rumpus, sent me this tumblr of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Some people wait a lifetime to find a website full of cool-looking old cassettes. (via John Gall) This tumblr collects “funny tombstones from around the world.” (via Jason Arias) To commemorate the Giants winning the World Series, McSweeney’s is selling…
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“Model Release”
William T. Vollmann’s invoice to Penguin for “four street prostitutes’ modeling time,” from Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad…). Larger version here.
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Morning Coffee
Hello, today is my final day filling in for Dan. That Dan Weiss of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come at him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him…
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Morning Coffee
Oh hey, here’s the crazy map of botched police raids you asked me for. “Leaders and their moms.” A lot of dumb people rank the most dangerous cities in the United States. #383: Gotham City. “With the Joker and Penguin…
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Morning Coffee
Roger Ebert recounts meeting Bukowski. The Complete History of the Fallout Shelter sign (via boingboing). Google Chrome vs. Potato. Everybody/nobody wins. Kids get sent home for wearing American flag shirts on Cinco De Mayo.
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Morning Coffee
The Geocities-izer allows us to “make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.” “The reason the parents have done this is because they do not have time to look after their children yet are…
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Morning Coffee
Dan, please come back soon. I didn’t read this, but a skim reveals that it’s about wooly mammoth hemo-goblins, whatever those are. (via Angela Petrella) Look at these horses, so tiny and unride-able. A bunch of pigs take on a…
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Morning Coffee
This might make you cry. A brief illustrated history of voting. (via brainpicker) Gather round this internet link to see some of the world’s ugliest statues. Let’s all quit Facebook (or can I atleast get a poke? Hi-yo!)
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Morning Coffee
To ring in my final week filling in for Dan Weiss, today is Three-Portfolios-One-Blog-of-Accidental-Dongs Day. Kelly Blair designs book covers for Melville House Publishing. Lala Albert draws a lot of evil stuff. Kevin Van Aelst makes stuff look like other…
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Morning Coffee
Does the iPad have an app that can simulate this walking bookshelf? Thing I have never wanted to see: Charles Burns’ Black Hole in real life. Starlee Kine wants you to cry. People in infomercials can’t do anything right.