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Happy Friday, enjoy some weirdo VHS cover art. Carl Tanzler’s mummified dream girl. The government has always been at war with lemonade stands (because sometimes they give the public Polio).…

This article about the future of songs has some interesting ideas but also says some of the dumbest things I’ve ever read, so there you go. Dept. of yep it’s…

What can we learn from chimp war? (More importantly: chimp war!) News item: it takes a very large telescope to look into black holes. Money used to be so much…

On the strange afterlife of Edgar Allen Poe’s hair. Meanwhile, in I guess it’s a slow news day: Neil deGrasse Tyson denies your hoverboard dreams. Everyone loves French film posters!…

Breaking news: Pluto’s moons are crazy. I bet some of you would like to look at these John Ashbery and Guy Maddin collages, seems like the sort of things you’d…

Articles on cassette culture involve basically all of my interests. Very important pizza reportage. Arnar Ásgeirsson’s living sections. News item: fish are so dang weird. Update: actually the whole ocean…

Bus stops of Belarus (are neat). Welcome to the exciting world of highpointers. More Arctic artifacts. Important news: male beetles are dumb. And now some 19th Century glass sea creatures…

We’ve been having a lot of technical problems with our internet access recently, please accept our humble apologies and promises to get everything fixed and back to normal ASAP.

Hello, this robot can perform brain surgery on fruit flies. There’s nothing special about being related to Charlemagne. Why do we keep finding new animals anyway? Here’s some more environmental…

Today in yes the drought is really that bad. Important news: seeing awesome stuff is awesome/makes you awesome. Plants don’t like being eaten either. A definitive guide to posthumous marriage.…

Our humble apologies, a terrible cold has been getting the better of us this last week, we’ll be back tomorrow. We miss you horribly.