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Update: Danish inventions are better than yours. Volcano breath is a pretty cool phrase. Volcano tornado is a cooler one. Water melon lantern festival! Cloudscapes is pretty much the neatest installation piece of the year.

The future is now! Spray on fabric.  Oh no, but that’s a common misconception. (via Gerry Canavan.) Birds on a wire as musical notation (there is a surprising amount of things like this out there, fyi). Terrifying optical illusions are…

have a great weekend dudes. The NY Times on tiny Golden Gate Bridges and superheroes in court.  Dilating French museums are pretty dang sweet.  Flavorwire on the last of Britain’s cinema busses. Soccer physics! When Errol Morris and Werner Herzog…

These crustaceans live inside of Jellyfish. What of it? Enviable Swedish architecture of the day. Sometimes I just want to read about hometown shark attacks. New Scientist explains to us how mountains grow. David Foster Wallace goes to the fair.

I am in love with you hump-backed Spanish dinosaur. Everyone is into Golden Age Sci-Fi illustration.  Hemingway as 21st century comedy writer is ok too. Some thoughts on politics (or the lack there of) in architectural design. Mainly though, let…

What do you think you’re doing? The best Astronomy pictures of the year (hurray). Oh hello, glass instruments. Aha! Space Lawyer is pretty much the best title of anything ever. (thanks AJAMS.) Farewell Liberace Museum.

Rumpus buddy Joshuah Bearman on the metaphysics of Pac-Man. More Venice Biennale radness. Department of terrifying-Eastern-European-art: panotICONS. Big Picture has your diving photography porn for the week. Insane 1970s interior design.

Today is Friday, so let us now look at Parisian street art photography.  The cutest stationary set the world has ever known? Have I linked to these toilet paper roll dioramas before? I am doing it again if so.  On…

Its been a whale since we’ve linked to vintage matchbox designs. 1970s Italian designers are so much more suave than you could possibly imagine. Eraserhead: the comic! What we are trying to say here is that Einstein was totally wrong…

Please watch out for asteroids today guys. These people are in jail for a way cooler reason than you. I’m super rich, I don’t have to wind all these watches myself! Spanish pool photography is pretty cool right? Here are…

Hello tiny Singapore. Everyone loves Siberian photography. The world’s oldest beer. Vintage Swiss airline industry design. It is a good day to think about monkey brains.

But here are some pictures of Organized Labor from the Library of Congress. Try to be good to each other today.