Morning Coffee
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Morning Coffee
Here are some pictures of a fireplace in a Norwegian kindergarten. You know, if that’s your thing. You might like to think we are above posting things about drunk 4 year olds. You would be wrong. Jimmy McNulty reads Chekhov.…
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Morning Coffee
Dash Shaw’s mini-comic for Vice is pretty great. Britain’s first full-scale high speed rail is up and running (and pretty looking!) In case you forgot, Big Picture’s photographs of 2009 completed today! As long as we’re recapping: the decade in…
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Morning Coffee
Wired looks at the fine art of pulpy vhs box art. A handy Christmas facts info-graphic for you. Scienceray wants to talk to you about the Trogon family of birds. I link to this begrudgingly because birds are terrifying. I’ve…
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Morning Coffee
The wall of knowledge. On the more misconceived Popular Mechanics ideas. P. William’s “The Finishing Touch” is exactly the kind of performance art we can get behind. Nikola Tesla’s Christmas gift for the world, circa 1900. Man returns library book…
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Morning Coffee
But how was YOUR weekend? News from the 80’s: Cocaine kills bear. Same faces, two different ages, spliced together at the middle. These are really creepy towards the end. In case you didn’t know, it’s Christmas shopping season. These books…
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Morning Coffee
Something happened and Morning Coffee missed the schedule. We’re not sure why. Ruben Brulat takes some pretty amazingly epic self-portaits. Dutch library design porn. Monkey syntax! Eight ways in-vitro meat will change our lives. (via MeFi.) Evidently a new species…
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Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to this epic document of classic scams. A family portrait of…
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Morning Coffee
Fun fact: lobsters don’t age! Scientists want to know why your brother won’t share with you. Chip Kidd on designing Nabokov. Everyday is a good day for insect macro-photography. The world’s coolest subway stations. Hurray for public transportation!
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Morning Coffee
New Scientist photo-essay on homosexual animals. Aww! Other countries are a lot better at rad eco design than us: the Greenspotlight. Warsaw urban art. On the other end of the spectrum: Norman Rockwell’s research photos. (via MeFi.) A look into…
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Morning Coffee
“Nothing can’t be made with wood.” Street legal wooden car! I don’t know about you, but I could use some good news this Monday morning. Cell phones might not cause brain tumors after all! Evidently the US Defense Department is…
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Morning Coffee
A recent death gives the NY Times reason to consider the origin of the Hokey Pokey. The Rotating Kitchen. Cities before and after catastrophe. (via Gerrycanvan.) Friendly bird feeders are changing evolution. A look at all the buildings Dubai could…
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Morning Coffee
What to get the Rumpus for Christmas. The sounds of dripping glaciers, printed onto the glaciers from whence they came. We here are entirely in favor of book based art. Tom Bendsten makes some pretty good ones. This has been…