Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
Today is a good day for map based infographics: charting the 250 greatest movies of all time and the 7 deadly sins. Miniature architecture fashioned from re-purposed kitchen and hardware items. Illustrating New York Missed Connections. Photographing the war in…
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Morning Coffee
Important science news: the universe is delicious! Need a good hideout? Al Capone’s is for sale. The American Girl homeless doll is surprisingly expensive. Or maybe not surprisingly, I don’t even know anymore. On the distance between McDonald’s. The final…
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Morning Coffee
The swedes have us beat on totally bad ass bank robberies. More Russian book jackets. The city of Sydney was engulfed in red dust yesterday. Here are some pictures. I’m sure you’ve already heard about this, but sometimes these things…
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Morning Coffee
We use the word diorama twice! Lose/Lose is an art game that makes sure you feel the consequences of your actions. Tiny dioramas made of food! Coyotes and wolves have started breeding, so now you have THAT to worry about…
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Morning Coffee
Water on Lens celebrates the art of cinematic underwater photography. Chimpanzee masks make your crippling fear of breathing the air fun! What do optical illusions tell us about our brains? The best and worst thing about the internet is that…
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Morning Coffee
Scientists capture giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico! (via MeFi.) Nicholas Gurewitz (of the completely brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship) has created a soundtrack to the fake Wes Anderson movie The Cloud Photographers. I kind of love the Yes Men.…
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Morning Coffee
It turns out Virginia Woolf was a big fan of science fiction. Corpses doing it. Go on. Click. What could go wrong? Its been said that the defining characteristic of us post-gen Xers is intense whimsy. That’s why I’m linking…
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Morning Coffee
OMG new dinosaur!!! (which helps solve evolutionary mysteries of the t-rex, or something, whatever). The History of Jobs in America (a graph). “On the asking of favors from established writers.” I’ve often wondered what the internet and digital technolgy has…
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Morning Coffee
Was today a good day? In Bb is an interactive and collaborative music project that is more than a little bit mind blowing. San Francisco was recently host to an unseasonable thunder storm, that is nothing compared to the 8…
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Morning Coffee
The world’s largest cache of 2,000-year old Jewish rebel coins found in cave. (via @marklamster) “Elegant women are very rare.” Iran’s first electric vehicle. Parisian pop-up restaurant. Even more old coins found buried in an English field. (also via @marklamster) Seed…
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Morning Coffee
Mysterious Russian Ice Rings! An annotated first sentence of William Gass’ “On Being Blue.” As a life long ornithophobiac people tend to think I’m irrational. How then do you explain this MAN HUNTING EAGLE? Jonathan Lethem on Ballard. This is…
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Morning Coffee
Howard Hughes’ un-flyable plane makes for a pretty great boat. One bank is letting people with good credit deposit checks by phone. Ohio is a piano for some reason. Trying to photograph Raymond Chandler’s LA. New Scientist on bomb-throwing deep…