Morning Coffee
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Can we just agree that being buried alive is the scariest possible thing? Occupy the Tundra! Maybe we live inside a black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Oh Jean Cocteau, what will we do with you? I think we…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all take a moment out of our day to appreciate old Welsh pop albums. If you can steal an entire bridge I’m pretty sure it legally belongs to you. the Pergamon World Atlas (here’s your flickr set for the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, the T-rex was more bad ass than we’d ever imagined. Good news everyone, now you can chart the Large Hadron Collider at CERN’s progress from the safety of your smart phone. A little Friday Swiss midcentury…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Big Picture on Occupy Everywhere (I love you Big Picture). Department of things-to-buy-me-please: The Keaton Music Typewriter. Sentimental Cartography. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, slide based art is the best art. That last link led…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Just in time for, uh, yesterday: maybe Columbus discovered Syphilis too! Have you always wished you could be shot out of a gun after you die? Good news! So here’s the deal: maybe there used to be giant octopuses, and…
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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 explore vintage paper cutout theater sets. What we should really…
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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. These maps are the absolute best thing about today. The…
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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 space news! We’ve found three new weird planets, and we…
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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 sucker for vintage transportation art.
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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 what discovering aliens will mean for people of faith. Using…
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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 classy). Here is an atlas of Saturn’s moon. HOLY SHIT…
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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 airplane and spies will communicate via microbes. Baboons are pretty…