Stabbin’ Cabin: World’s Swept
In the nameless midwest a puppy encounters a force he doesn’t understand.
Music: “Evil Ball” by Sinoia Caves
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Science proves women like men with bigger penises
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Giant Penis Shuts Down The Nürburgring
My Bowie: Jean Paul Gaultier
Who was your Bowie?
Ken Fox’s Wall of Death
The crowds look down from above and are fragranced by a rising incense of engine fumes. The point is to thrill the audience, not to scare them. The riders begin by circling the floor, then up on to a ramp, and finally they are riding perpendicular to the wall, arms outstretched, rising and dipping, sometimes high enough to leave tyre marks at the very top, prompting squeals from the crowd. For superstitious reasons, they only ever travel in an anti-clockwise direction. They get so close you could reach out and touch them, make some sort of brief physical connection with that speeding miracle of guts and grace and centrifugal force.
(via The Scotsman)
This man is my hero.
Mike Brodie: A Period of Juvenile Prosperity
Brodie began to photograph his travels in 2004 when he acquired an old Polaroid camera. “A friend gave me a Polaroid camera I found on the back seat of her car. I took a photo of the handlebars of my BMX bike and it looked incredible, so I kept taking pictures, it was that simple.” From 2004-2006, Brodie shot exclusively on Polaroid film, earning him the moniker the Polaroid Kidd; a name he would tag on box cars and walls. From 2006 – 2009, Brodie switched to 35mm film. During this five-year span, Brodie rode over 50,000 miles through 46 states documenting the people and places he encountered along the way.
41st Running of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
(via NBCNews PhotoBlog)
Six wheels, four seats, zero shame
Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6
Wholly holy holey jeans
Jesus Jeans has reportedly warned dozens other apparel start ups in the US against using Jesus in their brand since winning the patent.
Others to have been warned include ‘Jesus First’, ‘Sweet Jesus’ and ‘Jesus Couture’.
(via The Daily Mail)
Magnolia Swoon
After today’s snow, the Brackensbrown (evergreen) Beauties in the backyard bend under leaf caught snow. The tallest is eighteen feet, bent to a third of its height as viewed here. Branches seem double-bent, but not broken. I hope it can straighten up when the weight is off.
No matter where you are, it’s colder in Oymyakon, Russia
Daily problems that come with living in Oymyakon include pen ink freezing, glasses freezing to people’s faces and batteries losing power. Locals are said to leave their cars running all day for fear of not being able to restart them.
Even if there was coverage for mobile phone reception the phones themselves would not work in such cold conditions.
(via The Daily Mail)
(Photographer Amos Chapple’s site)
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New cunning linguist computer has got ancient tongues licked
101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads
(via TheVine)
The modern take? Selling vagina insecurity.
(via Daily Life)
24 Hours of LeMons
Where Halloween Meets Gasoline.
Topiary the Efficient Modern Way
Six hundred topiary balls an hour. At least. Just imagine!
And there’s more — at Alexander Trevi’s Pruned:
In case you were wondering, they [Dutch company Gebroeders Ezendam] also have a GPS-propelled pruning machine. Give it a LIDAR scanning system, so it can build a 3D field map for better navigation and precision grooming. Give it extra processing power, and it can achieve full autonomy. And then some more, and keep on doing so until they reach sentience. At night after work, they’ll escape to their secret topiary gardens in the forests and perhaps in the cities, too, where they transgress from globules and Christmas trees to vegetal phantasmagoria.
9am: Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours, watch cat videos
If you were in a cave all week and didn’t see this story, consider it a reminder to avoid doing certain things at work even if they feel right.
(via The Age)
from the comments
Sheila Ryan on January 18, 2013
We are the unsinkable Molly Brown of inefficient socially mediumistic webbed sites.
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Two men arrested in alleged plot to murder, castrate Justin Bieber
testes
testes. one. two. Is this thing on?
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Softball-sized eyeball washes up on Florida beach
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From The Advocate Archives: 1969 Article on the Stonewall Riots
June 28 and 29 mark the anniversary of the Stonewall riot, a 1969 event many recognize as central to the gay rights movement of the 1970s and beyond. Editors researching The Advocate archives for the magazine’s forty-fifth anniversary issue came across a piece that appeared in September 1969, reprinted from a summer newsletter of the New York Mattachine Society.
Titled Police Raid on N.Y. Club Sets Off First Gay Riot:
Plainclothes officers entered the [Stonewall Inn] at about 2 a.m., armed with a warrant, and closed the place on grounds of illegal selling of alcohol. Employees were arrested and the customers told to leave. The patrons gathered on the street outside and were joined by other Village residents and visitors to the area.
The police behaved, as is usually the case when they deal with homosexuals, with bad grace, and were reproached by “straight” onlookers. Pennies were thrown at the cops by the crowd, then beer cans, rocks, and even parking meters. The cops retreated inside the bar, which was set afire by the crowd.
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via Tyler Cowen.
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Taliban commander turns self in… for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster
