"Wondrous, curious, and bizarre locations around the world"

infinitely engaging, especially as one dips into the comments and discovers voices of the subjects themselves. I'm in awe…

"lyrics and knowledge" they say. And how.

from Mark Rubin's Chasing the Fat Man, a delicious assortment

for whenever time seems to be hanging heavy…

the (English) world of 60 years ago, for which a measure of nostalgia is permitted (via Warren Ellis)

keep an eye on THIS one

So, Bunky, you thought YOU were a misanthrope? Take a snort of THIS…

and zvuci too…

deja deja, and very welcome

via Gizmodo, and see his Flickr photoset for more

what I said…

Too much fun: "An ongoing project devoted to discovering
all the words and everything about them…More than 1.7 million words, and more than 130 million examples!"

lotsa interesting mappage

a cautionary read

via The Automata / Automaton Blog, and just SUPER cool to see the process of design (even though I realize thereby the poverty of my own creativity, automata-wise)

…continued…

"…debilitating belief disorders..". "It's a plausible scenario…" "A Great Plague can fix that…" "Why do I keep falling in love with these loser unlicensed massage therapists?" "henh henh henh" "Who has half a brain anymore?" "…memorizing the entire Zeitgeist addendum…" "this is some repugnant shit, man…"

disassembly of stuff: "comprehensive disassembly photos, hardware analysis, and witty commentary"

I've missed Jon Udell's contributions to my learning (much of his Microsoft work has just been outside my areas of interest/knowledge), but this one is worth a look to remind us of the powers that URLs can be endowed with.