Back in the saddle When Journey Round My Skull decides to clear out its image vaults, we are all the better for it. A plant that eats rats. Yes. Plant.…
Dan and Stephen are both going to be out of town next week. It’s ok, we’ll make it through this. A little hometown pride: San Francisco turning toxic site into…
Seven unmade Kubrick movies. Kitten calender graffiti. Sorry, let’s try and smarten this thing up: a concise history of light and particles. Slate on the history of airport design. Instructattoos.…
An Illustrated History of the War on Drugs. (via TPM) In case you’ve ever wonder what has more calories, polar bear or grizzly. Check out this sweet fence! We don’t…
“In 1873, they reunited in Brussels, but it took only two days before Verlaine bought a gun and got drunk and shot Rimbaud in the wrist.” LA Times on famous…
Carnivorous Mexican squids, mysteriously leaving their home waters, have been attacking divers off the coast of San Diego. There is a parable here but I’m having trouble finding it. Have…
Vanity Fair edits Palin’s resignation speech. Maybe you’d like to think we are above such things, this is not the case. Panda elephants! “God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks.”…
Whoops… Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes. Your cat is smarter than you think. On the anti-Nazi photomontages of John Heartfield? Not enough pictures of terrible people to start…
The most amazing website on the Internet. (might want to turn the sound down on your computer, NSFW) Perhaps the real question here is why was Sarah Palin signing a…
Social networking sites as art installation. Light-test.com collects photographer’s, uh, light tests. The results are playful and fascinating. A Journey Round My Skull takes a rare trip outside its selfimposed…
The Big Picture on the 2009 Venice Biennale. Andreas Gursky‘s photographs of enormous scale. More on Hemingway being a failed KGB spy. (bonus music link.) Brooklynites are an ingenious sort.…
How Metafilter beat the New York Times. Tearing down freeways could be the answer to all your urban traffic woes. In 2009 I’ve had the worst allergies of my life,…