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Flavorwire has kindly pointed us to this famous artists pronunciation guide. I would very much like to stay in the official Pantone Hotel. The scuba helmet of the future, today!…

Makoto Azuma is your hipster florist of the moment. Eco-benches of the year 3000. The Navy is about to show off its trained marine animals in San Francisco. This is…

Welcome to the known world, sweet-ass spike-nosed frog. (updated with actual link, not coworkers address.) This is an article about bat fellatio. Outdated cities of the future. Oh hey telephone…

Embroidering Wonder Bread. Department of total bummer: pictures of the stomach contents of deceased albatross. Turning Guggenheim tickets into rad art in and of themselves. Have you seen this giant…

Woah, DNA robot! Way to go science! Here are some pictures of pigeons on the Empire State Building. Did you know that HG Wells once had sex on top of…

If you should find yourself in Barcelona you may or may not wish to check out this Mercury spouting fountain. The weirdest thing about this link is that it was…

I’m back, remind me to tell you about my run in with the Hungarian Police sometime. Monster colossal squid, you ain’t no thang. Iceland has been doing a good job…

Hello, today is my final day filling in for Dan. That Dan Weiss of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come at him,…

Oh hey, here’s the crazy map of botched police raids you asked me for. “Leaders and their moms.” A lot of dumb people rank the most dangerous cities in the…

Roger Ebert recounts meeting Bukowski. The Complete History of the Fallout Shelter sign (via boingboing). Google Chrome vs. Potato. Everybody/nobody wins. Kids get sent home for wearing American flag shirts…

The Geocities-izer allows us to “make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.” “The reason the parents have done this is because they do…

Dan, please come back soon. I didn’t read this, but a skim reveals that it’s about wooly mammoth hemo-goblins, whatever those are. (via Angela Petrella) Look at these horses, so…