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inky: Re: Ø, Denmark: Here is one of the many places named...

Who wants to stay in a motel directly under a highway? EZ-8...

“I just wish it was higher resolution.”
— André Brocatus on a picture of...

Trees on the wall.

Blowin’ in the wind.

Anonymity

Rory Cellan-Jones of BBC’s dot.life blog writes: Now anonymity is a valuable, indeed vital...

The Collector Dilemma

3rd Street, by Dalton Rooney.

Sneaky Tactics

Here’s how to force your customers to agree to something they don’t want to agree to:...

GPOYW: really old picture of self in occasion of the arrival...

Pessimism, Zapffe, Ligotti

I’m continuing a theme here. Issue IV of the philosophy journal Collapse is online. The issue...

Gustave Caillebotte, The Floor Scrapers (1875).

“Living 14,000 years didn’t make me a genius. I just...”
— There’s something to be...

“Twice five syllables plus seven can’t say much but...”
— Douglas Hofstadter. Of...

By Stephen Shore, via. (Previously: a review, South Klamath...

How… What… Why… I don’t care, I like...

i am having a nice time

Lost in the Meritocracy

“Climbing a hillock for a better view of the grassy...

My script for a proposed Special...

Hello there, this is a dispatch from Godless Liberal Socialist Utopia, Norway, which is having its...

There is a museum in Paris devoted to counterfeit objects (hat tip). I was going to get all clever...

“Japan lives in the future; it has lived there for a century....”
— William Gibson on how Japan...

An Open Letter to John C. Wright

Married to the Sea.

Woman taxi driver sharing front seat w. pet dog, Paris,...

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander...”
— J. R. R. Tolkien.

Pictures for sad children.

Toshio Enomoto.

“I am at war with the obvious.”
— William Eggleston.

“On the back part of the step, toward the right, I saw a...”
— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph.

So, I saw a word today I hadn’t heard before: nadir....

Amos Coal Power Plant, 2004, by Mitch Epstein.

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to...”
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery. (via...

I envy ck/ck his eye and his road trip. Oh, and his tagline,...

In-between, by Katherine Squier.

In Praise of Shadows (1933)

In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is a lovely little meditation on traditional...

I just helped my dad update the password to his email exchange server on his Nokia smartphone. He...

Thought Experiment: A new cure for...

California’s third largest city has a population of...

Marilyn Monroe, 1959, by Elliott Erwitt.

Religion and Society

Marco: I don’t need to get into this very much with this audience, but for the people standing in...

The World's Shortest Horror Story

This Is The Only Level

“Really, as a photojournalist, you need to stop and...”
— A helpful question to bear in...

Nerd alert.

Photo nerds argue about all sorts of things: camera bodies, retailers, lenses, color spaces,...

How to Exit a Photograph, by David Horvitz.

Hunger (1890)

One of the books I read while on vacation was Knut Hamsun’s Sult (Hunger). I almost gave up on...

Summer: this lake by day. Reminds me of this (far superior)...

“The problem with defending the purity of the English...”
— James Nicoll.

John Cleese SDP/Liberal Alliance political...