February 2012
I am uninterested in baby pictures of any provenance.
I don’t really know what to make of these images. [NSFW]
Baratunde Thurston and Charles Murray answer each other’s questions.
Andy Warhol eats a Whopper™.
For the first time, websites saw more traffic from iOS than OS X. (Surprised it took so long.)
A teenager shot himself in the face in an elementary school cafeteria while students were eating nearby. No words.
Stereograms from the Civil War. (Click to animate.)
Kickstarter’s incredible day.
Tilt-shift Beijing.
Things you can buy at CPAC: foam fetuses, NewsMax hand sanitizer, “funny” t-shirts.
Every time iTunes includes Digable Planets in the hip-hop genre list, I consider giving up on technology completely.
Every World Press photo of the year from 1955 to 2011.
A map of the protests across Syria today, including news articles and videos.
The Navy announces the USS Gabrielle Giffords.
During a test flight, a Boeing 787 traces a path across the US that draws “787” and the Boeing logo.
Ugh. Now the nanny state won’t even let cruise ships dump raw sewage off our coast! #donttreadonme
Approaching San Francisco in an airship.
Inside a New York food cart factory.
Gingrich unveils a composite photo of his endorsing “dream team,” some of whom you’ll recognize. Also, I think probably that Norris image is Photoshopped.
How Stanley Kubrick ended up taking his own Newsweek cover photo.
New York Diaries: tales of the city told in the residents’ private reflections.
Nate Silver on why Santorum could end up with the nom: unpredictability.
Wonderful minimalist photos of various places on Earth, taken from above.
Rejected Times slogans included: “As bright as a star and there you are,” “Yours neatly, sweetly and completely.”
An artist puts blue LED halos on London landmarks to illustrate where rising sea levels might crest.
A thing I made last night: gauge the mood nearby by seeing who’s thanking, swearing and loving on Twitter.
Syria’s First Lady’s website either offers refreshing candor or has been hacked.
New at Mediaite: what’s a scoop in the age of Twitter, anyway?
In the past few decades, the education gap between black and white has shrunk - but the gap between rich and poor has grown.
The World Press photo of the year, taken in Yemen during the Arab Spring.
People with higher working memory capacity may perceive time faster.
Don’t do this to me, Jeremy.
At Ford’s Theater, a three-story tower of books about Lincoln.
Dumb uniforms aside, this 1981 illustration of cops in the future is pretty prescient.
The Daily News’ 404 page is cute.
Coming soon: penicillin-resistant gonorrhea. Good thing everyone supports contraceptive prophylactics.
Rick Santorum, whose closest brush with military service was representing the WWF in court, is worried about women’s “emotions” impairing combat roles.
One side effect of increased temperatures: higher crime.
And, yes, the photos of dogs under water are fantastic.
Demonstrating what fictional characters look like, as determined by feeding their descriptions into police sketch software.
If I could live in any YouTube video, it would be this one: a look at making bagels in Brooklyn in the late ’70s. I love this so much. Everything about it.
The highly entertaining Horse_ebookmarklet also works as a standalone link. (Go ahead. Click that second link.)
On the “colossal missed opportunity” of women’s magazines ignoring global issues.
The secret, subterranean Manhattan armory that’s home to a stockpile of replica weapons.
Part of CPAC, the conservative conference in DC: a dude proffering dating tips.
The people of the Civil War.
Apple: “worth more than Google, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, Ford, Starbucks and Boeing combined.”
Blue Ivy™
Wanted: a remote smart enough to ID the loudest sound and turn down the device making it. No more turning down computer in effort to silence phone.