Endless Parade of Excellence

2012-01-28T16:02:00.002-05:00

The Pojman pocket protector collection
(Via Mefi)

2012-01-18T12:36:00.001-05:00

Vroom!
(via the comments on this metafilter thread)

2012-01-13T20:43:00.002-05:00

Absolutely terrifying version of "Jesus Loves Me", performed by a cat and guinea pig. (slight animal cruelty warning, also, may induce nightmares)
Thanks, Von Bark!

2011-11-16T14:00:00.001-05:00

Cat Mask Synchronized With Facial Muscle Movements.

2011-08-07T16:00:00.001-04:00

The Eames' Solar-powered Do-Nothing Machine.
(via Playscapes)

2011-06-24T11:12:00.000-04:00

Maybe the best song ever written about silicones.
(thanks, Kat!)

2011-04-26T20:21:00.002-04:00

Hipster Animals.
(via OVVLvverk, who like Richard Scarry as much as I do. )

2011-04-15T11:51:00.001-04:00

Pynchon in Public day is coming.
(via William Gibson)

2011-04-02T10:36:00.001-04:00

The Teleview was an early mechanical 3D system invented by Laurens Hammond, of organ fame.

2011-03-26T16:17:00.001-04:00

Surf Movie Ticket stubs

2011-03-24T15:09:00.000-04:00

The Whistle Museum

2011-03-08T15:59:00.001-05:00

Meet Etti-cat! Etti-cat on the subway!
(thanks, Kat!)

2011-02-02T13:18:00.001-05:00

Indoor drag racing.
Via Coudal Partners

2011-01-04T19:40:00.000-05:00

Cry havoc and let slip the cats of war!
(Thanks, Andrew!)

2010-12-28T13:42:00.000-05:00

Illustrations by Harrison Cady
(thanks, Grant!)

2010-12-14T13:31:00.001-05:00

I've seen a lot of those "stare at the screen then look at something else" illusions, but this one is by far the best.
(Thanks, Grant!)

2010-11-29T18:08:00.002-05:00

Playground designs by Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahshi.
(via @giant_robot)

2010-11-27T12:32:00.002-05:00

"Here is a video of a giant, quadcopter, flying turkey cyborg that drops pies!"
(via Hack-a-Day)

2010-11-26T09:49:00.001-05:00

"Historical photos from the dawn of semiconductor testing"
(via Retro Thing)

2010-11-01T15:47:00.000-04:00

Dinosaur skull found in church.
(via Coudal Partners)

2010-10-30T16:02:00.000-04:00

Awesome Laika costume.
(via BoingBoing)

2010-10-26T18:01:00.001-04:00

All I wanted was a kitten. And she wouldn't let me have a kitten.
(Thanks, Scott!)

2010-10-25T17:57:00.000-04:00

More kitties! And ducklings!
(Thanks, Grant!

2010-10-25T11:34:00.001-04:00

Another good playground blog.
(Thanks, Christie!)

2010-10-25T11:26:00.001-04:00

Tiny Horse Race!!
(Thanks, Ron!)

2010-10-25T10:18:00.000-04:00

Playgroundology.All things playgroundish.

2010-10-22T20:09:00.000-04:00

Look at the kitties!

2010-09-26T13:38:00.002-04:00

In the old days, butter came from dogs.

2010-09-16T12:12:00.000-04:00

Sulphur Hexafluoride is cooler than helium.

2010-09-14T19:47:00.000-04:00

A cat that says "cat" on it.

2010-09-11T11:41:00.002-04:00

Need to cheer up some royalty? The cat piano is a trick that never gets old with that crowd.
(Thanks, Ron!)

2010-09-10T17:29:00.001-04:00

Blowing up the pony.
(via MeFi)

2010-09-07T16:28:00.000-04:00

There is a Horse in the Apple Store.
(Via Coudal Partners)

2010-08-14T17:54:00.000-04:00

This
is my favorite thing on the web right now.

2010-06-24T17:17:00.001-04:00

"The Best Dinosaur"
(Via BoingBoing)
(NSFW language!)

2010-06-06T16:41:00.002-04:00

This wins the award for "Best soundtrack for a Soviet lunar rover video".
(Via APOD)

2010-05-31T16:47:00.001-04:00

More weird stuff from Deal Extreme:

"-Having the appearance of coniferous trees
- Relieve eyestrain and computer fatigue
- Environmentally-friendly
- Good desktop decoration"

2010-05-12T10:50:00.001-04:00

Amazing effect using imaginary colours.
More info on the Metafilter post where i found this.

2010-05-07T10:52:00.001-04:00

Telescopic Space Flight Images.

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2010-04-28T10:34:00.001-04:00

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2010-04-28T10:18:00.002-04:00

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2010-04-21T17:26:00.001-04:00

Gaz Start Ctapt. Want.
(via Things Magazine)

2010-04-21T16:35:00.000-04:00

Archigram Archival Project
(via a whole bunch of people)

2010-04-16T10:35:00.000-04:00

I'm amazed that this didn't happen sooner.
(via MeFi)

2010-04-09T21:46:00.000-04:00

Owl Pellets.
(via Coudal Partners)

2010-04-08T14:00:00.001-04:00

"Have you ever wondered what Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for NES, instead of for a rock band?"
(via Retro Thing)

2010-04-04T09:11:00.000-04:00

Pathological Geomorphology blog.
(Via MeFi)

2010-03-24T09:49:00.003-04:00

It's Ada Lovelace day! If you look up in the sky tonight, take a moment to thank Henrietta Swan Leavitt for all her hard work. While slaving away as a poorly-paid "computer", she formulated a theory about the relationship between period and absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars, which was the key to figuring out the distances to other galaxies. She hasn't got a famous space telescope named after her, or a Nobel Prize, but she does have a crater on the moon, and an asteroid.

2010-03-22T20:42:00.002-04:00

Giant earwig of St. Helena.
Check your bed.
(Thanks, Dan)

2010-03-21T17:27:00.001-04:00

Russian ASCII animation of a cat from 1968.
Thanks, David!

2010-03-19T18:51:00.000-04:00

If you like red grapefruit, then you have radiation to thank.

2010-03-18T18:58:00.002-04:00

On April 4th the Hubble will take a look at Hanny's Voorwerp.
(Via @Nancy_A)

2010-03-09T13:53:00.001-05:00

We need more double-decker bus races.

2010-03-07T11:09:00.002-05:00

Lava Lamp Centrifuge.
(via Make: blog)

2010-03-02T10:55:00.001-05:00

Hate mail (and some apologies for same) from third-graders.
(via Eyebeam reblog)

2010-02-26T17:10:00.001-05:00

My solar system. Prepare to waste your day.
(via MeFi)

2010-02-23T16:53:00.001-05:00

Candid pictures of Bell Labs employees in the 60s.
(Thanks, Luis!)

2010-02-23T11:21:00.000-05:00

Looks like a scene from Firefly, but it's real!

2010-02-19T10:55:00.001-05:00

Rockets are cool.

2010-02-16T19:48:00.000-05:00

Early Pictorial Representations of Visual Migraine Aura.

2010-01-31T11:18:00.001-05:00

Paintings of Operation Crossroads
Via Liav Koren's Twitter)

2010-01-15T16:59:00.000-05:00

The internet is made of cats.
(via coudal partners)

2010-01-13T15:06:00.002-05:00

Ever play Operation, and think "This game would totally rock if it was a mucous-dripping dog that gave shocks?" Your wish has come true.

2010-01-05T21:34:00.001-05:00

Awesome Dutch Inventions
(Via Indicommons)

2010-01-05T20:20:00.000-05:00

Victorian Infographics
(via kottke.org)

2010-01-05T19:26:00.001-05:00

Typing Was Amazing
A short film by fellow Selectric fan Timothy J Silverman.

2010-01-04T21:30:00.002-05:00

My kinetic sculpture Selectric is now on view at Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen Street West, Toronto, until January 31st, 2010.

2009-12-31T10:16:00.001-05:00

Your mission: Corner people at New Year's parties, and explain the whole "Blue Moon" nonsense to them.

2009-12-24T12:13:00.003-05:00

Lite-Brite Astronomy:epsilon Aurigae

2009-12-23T13:29:00.001-05:00

Let's Enhance!
(via Kottke.org)

2009-12-18T12:00:00.002-05:00

The Physics of Space Battles. (Via MeFi)
One of the comments on that post linked to this. My day is officially shot.

2009-12-13T18:19:00.001-05:00

Awesome high-speed footage of an owl.
(Via OVVLvverk)

2009-12-09T17:20:00.001-05:00

Weird spiral over Norway.
Apparently caused by a malfunctioning Russian ICBM.
(Via Space Weather.)

2009-12-02T10:44:00.000-05:00

"Fishing in a pole boat, this was the heroic times of fishing tuna."
(Thanks, Kat!)

2009-12-01T14:39:00.001-05:00

Classic Telescope Catalogs and Manuals. The Edmund catalogs were staple reading in our house.

2009-11-27T11:53:00.001-05:00

The Economics of Pinball
(via Retro Thing)

2009-11-12T16:15:00.002-05:00

You don't need a Lava Lamp if you have 300,000 birds.
(via MeFi)

2009-11-10T19:30:00.002-05:00

Art Clokey before Gumby and Pokey, or Davey and Goliath: Gumbasia.
(Thanks, Kat!)

2009-11-08T19:16:00.002-05:00

In the Dough

2009-11-07T23:19:00.001-05:00

A List of Cats with fraudulent Diplomas
(Thanks, David!)

2009-11-05T15:21:00.002-05:00

Galaxy Zoo is a citizen science project in which you get to classify galaxies, doing the grunt work for astronomers who have better things to do with their days. There's a good chance that yours will be the first human eyes to see a some of these galaxies. If you're lucky, you might see a Hanny's Voorwerp!

2009-10-25T11:23:00.001-04:00

inside-out horses!
(via MAKE: blog)

2009-10-23T20:09:00.001-04:00

Whale fight!

2009-10-21T10:44:00.001-04:00

Life-size blue whale on your monitor! It's a little too big for my eeepc.
(via Coudal Partners)

2009-10-18T10:59:00.001-04:00

Ring-tailed ceiling cat!

2009-10-18T10:42:00.002-04:00

Promo for the Polaroid SX-70, by Charles and Ray Eames.
(Thanks, Dan!)

2009-10-13T13:59:00.000-04:00

Javascript-powered floral clock.

2009-10-09T17:28:00.000-04:00

Yes. Your parents were awesome.
(via pretty much every other blog on the planet)

2009-10-07T10:24:00.002-04:00

"I'm no bomb. I am not carrying any explosives. Moondust & myself are "elementaly" the same stuff. Stardust. I am merely an artifical meteor."

On friday you can watch a spacecraft crash into the moon.

2009-10-03T14:07:00.000-04:00

Regretsy- horrors from the world of craft.
(all of it is ugly- some of it is slightly NSFW)
(via coudal partners)

2009-09-30T11:25:00.001-04:00

Obama as Expressionless Girl.

(via MeFi)

2009-09-29T14:36:00.000-04:00

There, I fixed it.
(thanks, Rob)

2009-09-24T20:52:00.000-04:00

Big Things

2009-09-20T13:29:00.000-04:00

It's International Rock Flipping Day today!

2009-09-12T20:22:00.000-04:00

The Mushroom Tunnel of Mittagong
(via Kottke.org)

2009-09-10T13:06:00.002-04:00

A cat sticking its head into running water. A steel drum band covering Joy Division.
(Via MeFi)

2009-08-10T15:33:00.000-04:00

Giant Inflatable Blood Drop.

2009-08-06T14:49:00.002-04:00

It's not all "crappy"-there are lots of contemporary art pieces, and a little too much Walter Potter, but I'll bet you'll have some interesting dreams after looking at Crappy Taxidermy.
(via Boing Boing)

2009-08-06T11:03:00.002-04:00

"How to play: Press the buttons. Or something."
"Known issues: You died: Suggest not dying next time. Did you try pressing the buttons?"
The Chickening.
(via MeFi)

2009-07-22T12:16:00.001-04:00

Pestival insect arts festival.