Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
This is an article about Martian lubricant. Pretty much the weirdest headline I’ve read today. “I could really use a bad-ass architecture based link.” How about this water-purifying skyscraper? “I dunno, do you have anything involving quarries?” Oh, here you…
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Morning Coffee
Pictures of plant gall, one of the weirdest/raddest looking things in the world. It is hard to argue with 8-bit NYC. By the way, if you live in New York, you should probably go see Olafur Eliasson’s new installation (for…
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Morning Coffee
Behold the (wildly impractical) coffee-powered car. Still more vintage matchbook covers (these ones have animals on them!) The Maldives have commissioned the building of several floating star-shaped islands. In related news: the Maldives evidently are totally awesome. The Maskatorium. Take…
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Morning Coffee
Wednesdays can be hard, so its either this or reading the GG Allin Wikipedia page in its entirety. Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes! Neatorama…
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Morning Coffee
I’ve just got this hunch that things might be ok. Watching Shrek in Tehran. Hey, so, what happened to that tsunami? Related: The Chilean earthquake did however probably (possibly?) make the day shorter. Why the internet will never catch on. Gang…
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Morning Coffee
So precious it hurts: microscopic origami. A concise listing of man’s landings on celestial bodies (via Boingboing.) Oh hey recycled boat, what’s up with you? GerryCanavan Points us to the answer of a very important question: how does a student…
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Morning Coffee
The Japanese are better at solar power than the rest of us. Tokujin Yoshioka’s rainbow church. Inhabitat brings you the book cell (thank you for this). Why yes, I would like to look at your collection of matchbooks.
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Morning Coffee
The tragedy of umbrella genocide. If you should find yourself in Ahrensburg, Germany, perhaps you’d like to check out the Flour Art Museum. Also, in the above situation, you’d probably be able to read the text that goes with these…
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Morning Coffee
Sherman Alexie has written you a poem about My Sharona. (via GerryCanavan.) WFMU’s best show takes you through the darker side of power pop (mp3). The always reliable New Scientist has a handy list of tricks for alien trackers. Check…
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Morning Coffee
Time photo-essay on zebra-relocation. They have to be relocated somehow you know? Liechetenstein! (I don’t know why I linked to this either) We here at M.C. headquarters are big fans of the sculptural work of Carmelo Leone. Trying to understand…
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Morning Coffee
Scientifically speaking, we are all really boring. I don’t really understand how this works at all, but the code organ is a mighty fine way to kill some time. Diary Type is here to supply you with your weekly dose…
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Morning Coffee
Start your weekend off with some fine Victorian era photographs of Japan. The Guardian UK takes a look at unreliable narrators. Jeez, stop talking about the upcoming 2010 Shanghai World Expo, move on man, 2012’s will be way radder. Long…