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It’s a Tuesday, let’s watch some animals fight. Architizer takes us on a tour of the world’s visitor centers. Behold the world’s first space center. (2010 dudes!) 19th Century Scottish death obsessions are way more charming than mine. This week…

Big Day Coming. Department of this-is-how-people-spend-their-time: a collection of upside down n’s. In 2010 we use math to figure out how to properly wrinkle video game clothing. Google Map based art is the new Lego art. Paleo-Future brings you gardens…

Please don’t hate me. Sometimes I just want to link to pictures of utensils. Silver! On the Moon! Illustrating Finnegan’s Wake. I wish I knew more about Germany so I could make a clever joke about this upside-down house. But,…

“In fact, most of the life on the planet is probably composed of bacteria.” Let’s take a look at street artist JR (winner of this year’s TED prize), shall we? Eventually I’m sure things today will seem this charming. Manga…

Today in famous dead people’s handwriting:  Isaac Newton’s annotates himself. Africa is very large. Designing robots to fail. Hey, watch this bridge get taken apart. On the ramifications of turtle bones in Antarctica.

Today is a good day because of this unearthed Dr Seuss manuscript. (via GerryCanavan.) There are certain things I feel an obligation to post, these include but are not limited to posts on Hungarian underground railway stations and library storage…

It’s Monday, so clearly it is a good day to link to amazing pictures of a Swiss rail tunnel (soon to be the world’s longest!). Here are some things that were invented in Oakland, California. Look at this dang ol…

Keeping it simple and rad today. LAZERS! Pleasure Gardens! THESE TOADS ARE CANNIBALS, DUDES!!!! This is pretty much the best street art I’ve seen recently. (!) File under: Tiny things, rad pictures of.

Hey dudes, let’s talk about cracks in the universe. The next weekly Rumpus meeting will be spent on underwater scooters, right Isaac? Halloween is so close, so it is time to think about art monsters. Also: sunflower seeds at the…

It is hard to beat flight pattern photography sometimes. Mondo-Bloggo has kindly reprinted the entirety of their recent post on 1950s college kids flying kites, and we are all better for it. Novelty architecture happens from time to time. Incidentally,…

The first new carnivorous mammal in more than two decades was just discovered. Just so you know. Hey, check out Walter Green’s schema for the Believer! The internet is awash with rad vintage product design. Turn of the century french…

Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you read about Googles robot car yet?