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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 jump.

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 you do not love levitating people there is something wrong…

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 water absorption on the processing and quality of Oriental noodles.…

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 has endorsed the official confession booth iPhone app. Also, here…

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 interiors huh?

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. Of great importance: it is a bad idea to rob…

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 catacombs, which is basically my favorite thing (I have a…

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 being dumped into the Atlantic are the best thing I’ve…

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 map.” (Not to be mistaken with “Subway Map: The Musical.”)…

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 AJAMS.) On frog teeth and re-evolution. Mid-century travel posters are…

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 incinerator as laser shooting ski ramp. Flavorwire rounds up famous…

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 DOCTOR kitty to you. Update: nature is still crazy. No,…