Morning Coffee

No, you shouldn’t wear toe shoes. Actually important: so, what do we do with Syria’s chemical weapons now? Beware of Portland sous chefs. I’m sorry but sometimes you need to to look at dogs licking. And now vintage Irish book…

We are all just waiting for Houdini to escape death. Good news! The first ever (almost nearly slightly functional) intercontinental underwater rail tunnel is here. Better news! The age of jetpacks is (maybe almost) really here. It was only a…

Now it’s time to see the most popular boy names since 1960 (spoiler alert: it’s basically all Michael). Important news: cosmetics look like outer space if you photograph them close up. I guess billion-year data storage could be a thing…

I don’t want to freak everybody out but we’ve reached “the end of antibiotics”. Here is some chromatic wood type for you. Oh, maybe missiles are the answer. Why do witches ride brooms? (Patriarchy and drugs.) Reverse-engineering the human brain.

Also you can pre-order/preview my band’s new album now if you want to (I would love it if you would). The street monkeys of Jakarta are the scariest thing on the internet today. We should all be furious that we…

Let’s all go to the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair! (Some) babies (kind of) understand (basic) math. Algae lamps will save us all. George Bernard Shaw complains about opera attire. Keeping things classy: sets from the Ballets Russes.

No, brutalist buildings weren’t designed to stop student riots. Suicide machine art is neat. Don’t worry, animals will save us from the zombie apocalypse. Everyone loves mysterious soviet era group deaths (not counting those involved). Spiders are a pretty scary…

Maybe we should all be doing LSD (no thanks). The goblin shark will haunt your dreams. Photographing Russia’s dying movie theaters. And then this skull had to come along and ruin everything. This state-by-state map of the most popular female…

I sure do like Tokujin Yoshioka’s new installation. Buzz Aldrin has a (space) dream. What did NYC sound like in the 20s (it makes me so happy, the things people take the time to do). The lost art of the…

You guys, the Eames were just the best! Perhaps you have wondered how cats see the world. Very important: you can’t eat roadkill in Montana YET. These newly discovered bats are pretty great (at hearing things). And now a compendium…

Don’t worry, soon the astronauts will have microbrew beer to make. Meanwhile, elsewhere in outer space, it rains diamonds. This is seriously the 12th or so sea monsters on old maps post I’ve seen recently and I love all of…

News update: being buried alive is basically the scariest possible thing. I don’t really know if I like this or not, but I’m going to link to these hand-written texts anyway. I absolutely like these Japanese straw monsters though. This…