Daily Meh

EU quarantines London in swine flu panic

May 1st

As a favor to insomniacs, the world looks much prettier at 4...

Apr 30th

By Benoit Chailleux.

Apr 30th

David Foster Wallace in the room he had “painted...

Apr 30th

Just North of the Unconquered Sea, by Trey Hill. (via Laura...

Apr 30th

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 30th

My theme made it into the Tumblr Theme Garden. Preview...

Apr 30th

This is what goes on in the Oval Office. Better than...

Apr 30th

“Write then, now that you are young, nonsense by the ream. Be...”
— Virginia Woolf, Letter to a...

Apr 30th

Ego depletion

Apr 29th

That tree is cut now, and the balloons are gone. So is the...

Apr 29th

Reddit’s “you have to be over 18 to view...

Apr 29th

René Maltête, béquilles. (found here)

Apr 29th

Georgia Kokolis: I recently took a photograph of a girl in...

Apr 29th

By Luke Byrne. (found here.)

Apr 28th

Street to the Main Station, Shimada City, Japan, 2007, by...

Apr 28th

“The fetishization of self-destructive behavior is only...”
— Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

Apr 27th

Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps

Apr 27th

Tetris Furniture.

Apr 27th

Skeletons on a balcony in Pezinok, 2004, by Andrej Balco.

Apr 27th

Nature Makes the Awesomest Fractals

Try this: take your camera with you and go into a dense forest. Climb under a tree, point your lens...

Apr 27th

dictionary of awkward Japanese

Apr 26th

Broken Koans and other Zen debris

Apr 26th

“Stop all the downloadin’, turn off ICQ, Prevent the...”
— A Geocities lament.

Apr 26th

the ad hominem fallacy fallacy

Apr 26th

Should Banksy be nominated for the Turner...

Apr 25th

Spell, by Megan Cump.

Apr 25th

By Salva López. (previously.)

Apr 25th

Robert Recorde invents the equals sign

Apr 25th

Man pretending to fall off bridge actually...

Apr 25th

“One gentleman in particular–Zeke–looked over my shoulder one...”
— Doug Menuez, The zen of film...

Apr 24th

Joseph Tripi, Mom’s Cigarettes, 2007.

Apr 24th

Brittiney Swimming, Acorn Community, Virginia, 2006. In...

Apr 23rd

A Television Simulator

Apr 23rd

Introducing Asterism.

I’ve been planning to release the theme I use for my site, and several people have asked if...

Apr 23rd

Toothpaste for dinner.

Apr 23rd

Apr 23rd

The H&FJ Institute for Unapplied Mathematics

Apr 22nd

Sandra Lavueltaaldia.

Apr 22nd

The philosopher and the wolf

Apr 22nd

Hanging disposable camera experiment in...

Apr 22nd

In East Germany, Up Close and Personal, West German...

Apr 21st

We have a winner. The screenshot I posted earlier was indeed from Tokyo Story. I promised I’d...

Apr 21st

“The future will be a struggle between huge competing systems...”
— J. G. Ballard.

Apr 21st

Once, in an attempt to become more cultured, I tried...

Apr 21st

“I like how everything has fag appended to it. Are actual gay...”
— Comment about 4chan by someone...

Apr 21st

By Denis Dailleux, from Cairo.

Apr 20th

This thing has personality. I don’t know what...

Apr 20th

“The person who says “Enough innovation, let’s...”
— Dave Eggers.

Apr 19th

From We’re In No Hurry by Brice Matson. (by way of...

Apr 19th

TOP: A short while ago, this site and many others, led by...

Apr 19th

= (equals sign)

I have a grand theory that ties together several factors: human identity; the stigma around mental...

Apr 18th

one surrealist a day

Apr 18th

This blog is simply too sweet.

Apr 18th

From Imported Landscape. Petur Thomsen photographed the...

Apr 18th

They're made out of Meat

Apr 17th

Hierarchy of Beards by David Malki. Want.

Apr 17th

Greenhouse #1, Reykjavik, by Christian Weber.

Apr 17th

5B4 Photography and Books Year II

Apr 16th

1982+2005, Paris, France, by Chino Otsuka, from Imagine...

Apr 16th

Kirill Kuletski.

Apr 16th

By Guy Batey. Where does he find this stuff?

Apr 16th

By Alex JD Smith, from his photoblog.

Apr 16th

By Marc Johns. (via hydrogen)

Apr 15th

Is a high IQ a burden as much as a blessing?

Apr 15th

Counting Sheep, Redux. Or: How to Sleep,...

Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry about how to sleep, and what to do about nighttime...

Apr 15th

Polyphasic Sleep

Apr 15th

Counting sheep

It’s now 1am, and I’m sitting here doing work I have no interest in, but have to do...

Apr 14th

Vintage DHARMA ads. Wonderful. (via)

Apr 14th

Pictures for sad children.

Apr 14th

“A Higher Standard”

Apr 13th

Wikirank

Apr 12th

The hanger and the lamp; scene from my grandmother’s...

Apr 12th

The Moebius

Apr 12th

Tonight, we dine in hell. This place has a limitless...

Apr 12th

Wordless Chorus by Michael Regina. (via Steve Dekorte)

Apr 10th

2009

Apr 9th

War (1/3), by ncomment

Apr 9th

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
— Albert Camus. (Question: what...

Apr 9th

A hairdresser in Mexico, by Anahita Avalos: For this picture...

Apr 8th

More fake holidays: The Talk, Ski Dubai, 2006.

Apr 8th

When wishes are out of reach, simulation is taking over our...

Apr 8th

Hallucinating roman chariots and goats in...

Apr 8th

One of Urban Dictionary’s top entries for...

Apr 7th

Michael Wolf, from The Transparent City.

Apr 7th

Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam...

Apr 6th

Inverse Tree.

Apr 6th

Forest, by John Opera: the kind of thing that makes me want...

Apr 6th

Painting by Diego Gravinese. Meta2.

Apr 5th

I like the album art for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album,...

Apr 5th

This is the frequency of the “happy” and...

Apr 5th

My little brother, consumed with thought. Or tv....

Apr 5th

Confessions of a Man Who Almost Went Postal

Apr 5th

Man traveling 73 mph toward an overpass on a Tuesday morning...

Apr 5th

Some Words on Commenting

So you have a blog. You want people to be able to publically react to what you write. You want...

Apr 5th

lockestarestrip

Apr 5th

Seiji Shibuya. (via shashin etc)

Apr 4th

Exhalation

Apr 3rd

“In Sarsi I seem to discern the firm belief that in...”
— Galileo Galilei.

Apr 1st

Run away already, by SW▲MPY. If there is such a genre as...

Apr 1st

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

Apr 1st

Snow goose, by Nils Jorgensen.

Apr 1st

The Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All...

Mar 31st

Close-up (1990)

Mar 31st

Unix can be strangely poetic

Mar 31st