Morning Coffee

Santa Cruz understands the best way to stop crime is math. Let’s all discuss living bridges! Sharks used to be adorable. Sometimes it is important to look into pop-cultures past for some first class snark. Perhaps to help you through…

On the political history of orange carrots. Yep. Good news New York: the New York State Pavilion will (probably) be saved. Jellyfish cats and the future of AIDS research. Medically diagnosing classic paintings is a thing people do sometimes.

I didn’t want to put my books on your shelves anyway, Ikea. The Chinese are crushing us both in industry AND whimsy! We are also being beaten by the Finnish in the important buildings on boats department. Welcome to 2011,…

Here are a lot of Polaroids from John Waters’ house, if that’s your thing. Mussolini’s toothpaste over at 50 Watts. The United Nations make some neat stamps. Look Higgs Boson it’s about time you make up your mind on this…

This has been touched on before, but prehistoric life was basically all boning all the time. Once Upon A Time In Yugoslavia will fulfill all my internet needs this week. The Railton Mobil Special! Who wants to take a road…

Let’s talk about old place names yes? Important: Amazon makes terrible spaceships. Related: Soviet space shuttle remains hurray! Ferris wheel based art (and other things). Antiquarian tableware (#2 is particularly amazing).

Perhaps you are wondering what the proper protocol is when looking for a yeti in the 50s. Have y’all been following the constitutional goings on in Iceland these days? I go out of town for two weeks and somehow I…

We’ll be laying low today. Have a good Labor Day. “In Praise of the American Worker,” a slideshow from Life magazine.

I hope y’all are ready for transparent skin. 1970s art manifesto houses! Attention: outer space has way too much junk in it’s outer space trunk. Seriously dudes, soviet-era art and design is the best. Dolphin death is the saddest, but…

Welcome to the world 7th billion person! Early 70s Cuban stamps are pretty great. Here are some things you can do with typewriters. 100 year old colored photographs of Russian life! woo! Let’s all pour one out for poor ol…

Why do Eastern European kids get all the surrealist fun? Way to be land fish! Dali’s Vogue covers are pretty rad to see. When I die I intend to be liquefacted, just like my hero the earthquake ravaged San Francisco…

As it turns out, construction in LA used to be a lot more visually stunning. What’s up planet made of diamonds? Way to be 100 neon lights! The internet loves scanning things that shouldn’t be scanned. The internet also loves…