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South Korea’s ship is much bigger than yours. The Smithsonian wants you to look at animals. As long as people are thinking about New Orleans, here is some NOLA based…

What are you heartless? The loneliest whale in all the world. Competition Competition just picked out the best losing architecture proposals of 2010. Can we all agree that “Thunder Thighs”…

Here is a thing: evil people living in modernist homes in popular films. Time marches along and before you know it there are no more WWI vets. NASA gets ready…

This week in “exciting” Flickr galleries: iconography of justice and mid-century corporate design! Let’s talk a bit about Walt Disney’s Magic Highway (USA). The Book of Eclipses. This is why…

Today might be a good day to check out the CIA Museum Flickr feed. When celebrity endorsements are from the past they become way more interesting. For some reason scientists…

It is a very slow day, so I am opening with a look at an Olympic velodrome arena. We can all agree that it is a bummer that Slash’s guitar…

Photo Opportunities makes pictures out of thousands of snap shots of tourist destinations. It is pretty cool. In Russia, weddings photos take YOU! (I am not actually old enough to…

I know this isn’t the point, but I can’t stop thinking about how cute these fat monkeys are. Psychedelic Don Quixote illustrations. Abandoned World War 2 bunkers are sort of…

The BBC has really been bringing it this week, nature-wise. “Reasons not the think outside the box.” Penguins understand what to and not to freeze. I have one last word…

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but there may be a giant gas planet hiding over there. Your Mid-Century Modernist design porn for the day. How is predictive text changing…

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