Morning Coffee

  • Dan’s Top 20 Morning Coffee Links

    Since today is Memorial Day, yesterday your humble Morning Coffee editor’s birthday, and the exact two month mark of holding said title, here are his top 20 links from his residency here on the Rumpus.net.  Enjoy. 13 scientific truths that…

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    Creepy twine sculptures and potato portraits. Happy memorial day weekend. Minimalist architectural pornography. House of Diffusion. If we here at the Morning Coffee were a single issue voter, that issue would probably be urban planning/public transportation. Which is why we…

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    From one our personal favorite blogs: questions young people ask. Images from the 1973 Iranian children’s book, The Story of a Silkworm. Speaking of whimsy, check out this Finish environmental art. Taking participatory art to something of a logical extreme,…

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    Japanese shipyard gone feral. We are pretty sure this is what the next Pixar movie is going to be about. (via Metafilter) Kerouac as fantasy baseball enthusiast. From New Scientist, half of all raindrops fall faster than thought possible. I…

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    Passive-aggressive notes. Bird’s eye view photography is pretty rad. Jason Hawkes has figured this out. The Big Picture has figured out that Jason Hawkes has figured this out. Dinosaur comics. We must have linked to this before but yesterday’s strip…

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    The controversial hobbit-like Homo Floresiensis  were a seperate species after all. And thus the world is a little more magical. My Home Birth: A Graphic Memoir from SMITHMAG. Made of This: the first of three installments. “Michael Morpugo, Susan Greenfield,…

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    Look, I know you’d like to think we are above such things, but damn it sometimes we just want to look at pictures of baby animals. Thank you Big Picture for helping us come to terms with this. 15 unusual…

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    13 Scientific truths that do not make any sense at all. Frustrated by the state of the stock market? Perhaps trained rats could do a better job. Biology Today, a 1972 science textbook that is beautiful and bizarrely psychedelic. The…

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    sometimes, when it rains, we have our doubts… Start your day off right, with gratutious black and white pictures of bridges. In 1944 Japan launched an attack on the US using entirely unmanned balloon bombs. It was pretty rad.  (via…

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    Morning Coffee, now two hours earlier for our friends on the east coast. Count on it every weekday at 7, Atlantic! Our Rozalia reviews Throw Down Your Heart, the documentary of Bela Fleck’s travels in Africa. Heavypetting. A blog about…

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    This flickr photo pool of grain elevators is entirely hypnotic. Thank you Death Wish Three for bringing this to our attention. Should our online relationships effect our real life relationships? I can’t unfollow you. Google book search settlement gives Google…

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    2010 is just around the corner, where are my Flying Cars?  The New York Times on why they will never happen and why they are right around the corner. Coney Island 1952. (via Metafilter) also the 1939 New York World’s…