Category: Daily Links

via Bookslut, an entertaining article about Catholicism, religion generally, children and so on. A pleasant antidote to all those rather earnest internet discussions about religion.

Via Super Colossal: how to camouflage a whole aircraft factory. Which is like, seriously cool. Check it out.

The extraordinary anatomy of the moray eel, newly discovered.

‘The seas around Britain are a wasteland compared with 100 years ago and at least a third of the sea must be closed to fishing if the profusion of fish we had then is to return, according to a new book.’

Amazing fingernail decorations: ‘The Japanese nail art scene is presumably one of the most vibrants in the world. Why? Look at the hordes of Shibuya garu that practically live to care about their looks! ‘

via Alec Soth, endlessly browsable pictures from Australia. Check out their tours or just type a random word in the search box.

via Shane Lavalette; lots of pictures of people arranged by what they’re wearing. My explanation is rubbish: just go and have a look.

‘How do you squeeze a kidney through a keyhole? Put it in a plastic bag and pull, it seems.’ Only the short version available for non-subscribers, but enough to get the gist.

I haven’t read the article, but such a cool photo.

via Metafilter, user-generated Super Mario levels that play themselves. These must represent about a bazillion man-hours ad the result is incredible.

via Khoi Vinh, the remarkable hobo nickels. ‘Each hobo nickel is unique as they were all individually hand carved, using the design of either the Indian or the buffalo as a base, and altering it to another design altogether.’

Empire design.

Title says it all, really.

‘Airplanes 14 15 16 17 and crews’ – great picture of second world war USAF aircrews with their planes.

On why Jessica Alba does (or doesn’t) have the sexiest walk, what mathematics has to do with it, the dark arts of PR and the shallowness of journalism.

Because nature is always about 70% weirder than you think.

Invertebrate links.

A seriously impressive bit of cakemaking.

Because what else would you knit?

Photographs from New Orleans

‘So what was this culture? What do we mean by the web of the mid 90’s and when did it end?’