“kinetic sculpture designed and built on commission by Bradley N. Litwin of Philadelphia, PA. With 8 synchronized catapults, 160 plastic balls per minute are launched, caught, and recirculated…”

from Environmental News Blog Environmental Graffiti… slow to load, but really worth it

ALA’s tool to make it just a bit easier to figure out when Permission is needed

New Yorker (“Goal is to see if it’s possible to make a universally offensive cover out of this wishy washy half-satire”) and moooore. “This website proudly digs up, restores, and exhibits some of the rarest political ephemera you will ever see…”

from Ghosts of Alexander. More here than I can readily assimilate, and greater clarity than almost anything else I’ve seen on the Other Catastrope

The center-parting? You decide…

from BibliOdyssey, a wonderful collection

via Language Log, and bloody brilliant at that

“…looks for kml files in the web with Google AJAX Search AP… Parses the name of the kml files with a little php code… Shows the kml file content in map with Google Maps API.”

from bighappyfunhouse

Excavated Shellac’s tastes are a lot like mine

“Scratchy old Chinese records” …gotta luvvit

from Fafblog, and makes more sense than most…

Tech Basketball: 1920 from Shorpy (as usual, there may be more than one)

via new discovery Dumneazu (“Ethnomusicological Eating East of Everywhere”, MY kind of blog…). Koyuncu has one of the more memorable noses, a Laz masterpiece