Month: December 2006

“These plates come from the ‘New York Coach-Maker’s Magazine [Devoted to the Literary, Social and Mechanical History of the Craft]’ from ~1870 at the Smithsonian Institution.”

“Who says there’s only one way to write in English? The wonderful site Omniglot catalogues eccentric alternatives to the Latin alphabet.” via languagehat

A stunning pair of cow pants from a 1937 issue of Popular Science

via city of sound

A particularly good Flickr search, via things magazine.

post by Carl in 1994 to rec.food.sourdough: “I have dried and will mail out a bit of the starter that my family brought west on an Oregon Trail wagontrain in 1847 along with instructions to revive it and a few recipes if anyone is interested ???? Carl.”

interview with designers BarberOsgerby

gigapixel panoramas. via DDE

fabulous pics

via Metafilter

read this one!

OK, some of it’s a bit cheesy – check out the bed – and there’s too much shit-brown furniture, but actually this is still a pretty cool pad for the bachelor-on-the-go. Via things magazine.

“I can’t believe that photographers go into war zones dressed like soldiers! Soldiers are the people they shoot *at*. If I could wear a clown suit I would do it – if I could wear the big shoes and everything. I would wear the whole fucking thing.”