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Update: Animal sex is terrifying sometimes. The real Captain Ahab’s ship has been found, which is cool right? Important: do not give false prophecies in Romania. This is how fleas…

Love is sort of cool right? Sinking ship art installation (woo). Interesting fact: animals are fascinating a lot of the time. Department of maybe-you-would-like-to-buy-this: the world’s largest toy collection. If…

Let us now take a look at the Bank of Moscow(why? why not?). Good news everyone, the timer on the Wiimote is more accurate than a stopwatch. The influence of…

Behold the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator. (via Gerry Canavan.) Sheep: not nearly as dumb as THE MAN would have you think. Good news for Catholics on the go: the church…

This might be a good time to talk about snake legs. Spinach will save us all. Oh, that’s what I was looking for, meat-eating furniture. Cuba has some neat building…

We need language to understand numbers (I still do not understand numbers). What does history look like? Long story short: people love toys and have for sort of a while.…

Adorable news to start your Monday: Dog Show pig! Hurray! Rejection the Gertrude Stein way. Soviet space secrets are the best kind of secrets. National Geographic looks at the Paris…

Feeling kind of arty today. Pollution as installation art. Sam Shaw’s Intimate Icons. San Rocco is a magazine about architecture. This week in botanical sculptures. These pictures of subway cars…

Are you at AWP? Here are some helpful tips. (Psst! Rumor has it the Rumpus is at table I18. Come say hi!) “Invasion of the crazy incestuous ants[!]” “Musical subway…

It is a good day to think about Viking navigation (confession: it is ALWAYS a good day to think about Viking navigation). The wonderful world of generic record sleeves. (via…

in 2011 violinists can duet with radioactive particles. Department of tiny things: look at these little fire escapes. Cabinet Magazine on how to make anything signify anything else. Also, waste…

Rumpus buddy Will Schofield (of A Journey Around My Skull) will be updating weekly at But Does It Float. Here he is his first. Moonlight Sonata reverberating through milk. That’s…