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Decomposing corpse, Forensic Anthropology Research Facility,...

The Rumpus Interview With Zak Smith

Future olympic park, 2007, by Bas Princen.

“Why not impose a moral statute of limitations on historical...”
— H. W. Brands. (via) Yes, yes,...

Nobody stops. Aw.

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
— John Stuart Mill.

Also by Pavel Morozov. (via)

Balanced Ternary

Quoth Donald Knuth: “Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is balanced ternary.” ...

Pagan, by Noel Rodo-Vankeulen.

Moustache Dreams by Gustav Gustafsson.

Eric Meola (dammit, flash websites).

“Oh suuure. Rich white lady dies and the media is all over...”
— reddit.

Tassie wallabies hopping high

I’m alternating between thinking of what’s in...

Looking Back: Dancing plagues and mass...

“For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an...”
— Ze Frank. He seems to be...

Looks like today is becoming old pictures Tuesday here. Navy...

Balcony Seats at a Murder, 1939, by Arthur Fellig, aka...

Passive-Aggressive Vegan Grocery Cashier: A...

My sister, May, 2009. I got the two first rolls from my...

Blue Lagoon, Iceland, by Hiroshi Watanabe. (see also)

“You have failed to consider the ramifications of the...”
— Erik Naggum, lisp hacker and...

Lucid Screaming

I’ve been to The Matrix, and it was a pretty fucking terrifying experience. Lucid dreaming,...

“[The children] insisted that their father take them to see...”
— Gabriel García Márquez, One...

The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon,...

“Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many...”
— Microsoft gives itself a ✓ for...

Rescue Mission, ibid.

The Messenger, from Borderlands, by Josh Poehlein.

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre.

Word I Learned Today

Incunabulist, n., someone who is interested in or collects books printed in Europe before 1501. From...

Fever° Red hot. Well read.

Week 22: Lisa Scheer

Idea: The Outlet Wall. Instead of hiding your outlets behind...

By Greg Girard. Lovely colors. (via; more; previously)

Olympus Pen F (1963), Olympus E-P1 (2009). I very rarely...

How does our language shape the way we think?

From Modena, Italy, 2003, by El Tono. If you ever plan to...

“When I teach, it seems like every student wants to do some...”
— Alec Soth.

Corbis Images has a self-congratulatory series called...

From No Lifeguard on Duty, a series by J. Bennett Fitts.

“When I was in Taiwan, I heard that they sometimes held...”
— David Moser, Why Chinese Is So...

Amy Hoy (via toldorknown): Thinking about your thinking about your thinking doesn’t create world...

San Francisco, 1977. Henry Wessel has style.

By Greg Girard, from Kowloon Walled City. (found in Parasol)

17-Year-Old Thinks She's Getting Into...

“The only people I know who are really not obsessed with sex...”
— Gaspar Noé. (via Constant...

The light was pretty magical today.

James W. Heisig, ruining romantic...

My mom: Did you know that the Chinese character for "love" depicts a mother and a child embracing? Isn't that cute?
Me: (looks it up)
Me: Actually, the character for "love" consists of a birdhouse, a heart, and walking legs.
Her: Oh.

Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, by Raymond Queneau, reminds...

VIDEOGAME: THE MOVIE: THE GAME

The idea of a tree, by Katharina Mischer and Thomas...

The most important thing, ever

By way of the ever vigilant Kottke I found that The Economist’s Intelligent Life sister...

“In a way, the internet is a library that talks back.”
— Jonathan Rauch.

“The next real literary “rebels” in this country...”
— David Foster Wallace (best...

Nøkken (the Neck), Th. Kittelsen, 1904.

This post comes with a hand-drawn illustration, so you know...

WE THE ROBOTS is taking an indefinite hiatus. This is an old...

If only every family album was as good as this: Doug...

Nathan, Boonville, North Carolina, by Timothy Briner.

Optimism, by Jennifer Daniel. (found here)

I’m going to hold on to this one for future use....

It’s 3:40 and I’m watching sunrise. In fact, the sun is streaming through my window,...

Gregory Crewdson didn’t always do huge tableaux. He...

Peter Sutherland.

Goldfish, 2005, by Rachel Hulin. (via)