Coolography 5

Revenge of the ass-engined Nazi slot-car edition.

The worst thing I've just watched all of

The Guild.

Coolography 4

More in that vein

via I'm not sure who

Rawr

This is about a million times better than every senior thesis art project ever. EVER.

Great, now Madagascar is messing with me

The implausibly real Adansonia tree

coolography 3

Wrinkle paint is very cool.

Exercises in translation

I am translating a short story written by a friend, set in medieval Sardinia. Here is the first part:

Swords for hire

Welcome to another photoshop come to life

The internet is really screwing with my fake/real-dar.

Old Skool

Beastie Boys versus Richard Scarry

Meet Pink Floyd vs The Wizard of Oz for the Reality Bites set. Yes, I realize this is the sort of Gen-X self-referential nostalgia in-joke that normally makes me break out in hives, but not so much this time. So sue me.

heh

Mean Cards.

We live in interesting times...

The Saga Of The Bearer Bonds

(In the stranger than fiction files: Two Japanese men were caught trying to leave Italy with $134 billion in US bearer bonds, whose origins are not yet known... Whose are they? Where did they come from? Are they real?)

these are not the droids you are looking for...

tax the tall

Do you really want to tax ability?

Should the income tax system include a tax credit for short taxpayers and a tax surcharge for tall ones? This column explains how the standard utilitarian framework for tax policy analysis says that individual attributes correlated with wages, such as height, should determine tax liabilities. Taller individuals should pay higher taxes. If this is objectionable, then something is wrong with the standard framework.

Of course, since they only divy things up into three categories, with "tall" being greater than 73 inches, I'm still getting away with murder! The eventual implementation will no doubt be finer grained...

heh

The concept is a bit old, but a solid "A" for execution...

Kids these days

The rich ontological history of HURF DURF BUTTER EATER.

This can't be real

A seemingly unfortunate business name... yet there it is.

Brilliant!

Swiss Army Kitchen Utensil Holder

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This can go on forever.

This is the truth

The education pyramid. I think I saw that somewhere else too.

ghosts in the machine

Jason Salvon - The Late Night Triad

HiDef Moon

Give your internet connection a workout with this rather nice high definition video of the moon.

sneakers

How Your Favorite Sneakers Got Their Name

600 million pairs of Chuck Taylor All-Stars. That's a lot. Oddly, they left off Nike, although Nike does own Converse.

Murdered out, as they say in the vernacular

Mobsteel.

lol

Most unfortunate headline of the year...

Going out West where the wind blows tall

Strange Maps - America's Mean Streak.

photo

photo

Don't recall where this one came from either.

People very different from me

The Lear Jet repo man.

doppelgangers

Michael Pollan or Michel Foucault?

Does it matter who's who if you want to throw both of them into a bag, throw the bag into a river, and throw the river into space?

coolography

that old intergenerational tension

Manhattanhenge

Manhattanhenge Sunset - 42nd St Image via jonbell has no h's Flickr.

May 31st is a little arbitrary, but so what. Given L'Enfant's Freemasonish layout of the District of Columbia, there must be a thousand and one numerology/alignment possibilities. I feel slightly inclined to investigate, and if you don't hear from me again, speculate wildly on what I must have found.

The twenty-eight reincarnation of FAIL

Via failblog.org and the four winds.

A recent problem

I clip a lot of what I find on the intertubes, but sometimes you lose track of where some bit came from. I liked this runway collage, but I can't yet find where I downloaded it from - so if by unlikely chance you happen to know, shoot me a comment.

Oh, LOL

Wondermark #523; In which Vince achieves victory