Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
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. Eats. Rat. Historic bridges of the United States. (via Metafilter)…
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Morning Coffee
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 UN Global Warming Center. These things are sort of lame,…
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Morning Coffee
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. I like every single thing about this link: Swedish vintage…
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Morning Coffee
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 usually do legos, but sometimes you need to fill in…
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Morning Coffee
“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 literary feuds. Terrastories brings you the only known pictures inside…
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Morning Coffee
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 you seen Todd Rundgren’s website? Why not? (requires flash, and…
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Morning Coffee
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.” Missouri car dealer offers free AK-47 with every truck purchase.…
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Morning Coffee
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 your weekend right? Well how about this Life photo-essay on…
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Morning Coffee
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 baby? Judge Sotomayer v. 1977 Kansas City Royals. Watch people…
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Morning Coffee
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 literary borders into the world of music paraphanalia. This one…
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Morning Coffee
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. Case in point: a swimming pool made out of dumpsters.…
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Morning Coffee
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, still these pictures of pollen under microscopes are pretty dang…