OK, I have a few days off and MASSES of faffage to catch up on!
It is snowing outside. I have made no plans. I got beautiful flowers for my nameday yesterday...
I am PLEASED. *lazy grin*

First stop:
WEBCOMICS!!!

Loving Lucy Kinsley's Stop Paying Attention!

Let's talk about having kids...

... ride motherfucking alligators!

via the EXTREMELY entertaining Vintage Child Abuse blog

Radiolab

It's time to share one of internet's best kept secrets: the Radiolab archives! THE MOST inspiring, interesting, accessible, science-flavoured story telling action around!

These days I spend a few hours a week crossing the Wiltshire countryside by bus and unfortunately, it seems I have lost the pleasure of reading books on these proud motorised stallions.

I think my car sickness issues began when I was 13 and I spent most of my summer holiday in France playing the gameboy in the back seat of my aunt's car. Ever since I found reading in cars nauseating, but buses were blissfully exempt up until now. My vestibulocochlear apparatus is just not what it used to be... So, to distract myself from the overpowering fragrance of chemically-enhanced industrial strength manure and to be able to appreciate the lush green rolling hills said manure helps to sustain, I turned to listening.

I stream Radiolab podcasts onto my iPhone and tune in just as I get on the coach. It is my secret to coping with infrequent, overpriced, slow and unreliable public transport. In fact I am the only one at work who does not commute by car, and yet I seem the happiest upon arrival.

Radio Lab is why!

Here's just a sample:

Loops

Limits

Please let us know what you think!

More Wonderniture!

 

  

 

 

 

It was definately time for more fabulous furnishings! 

Yum!!! Found on the internets.

Summer design highlights

Came across these on the internets - looking very desirable! I hope maybe someday also obtainable and affordable...

Beech hut/pod/Lifeguard tower

Hammock canoe!

Zero Pod mobile house prototype

Amazing. I'll have five!

Inspiring

I miss street art...
Both pics found via facebook: top bottom

Randomness

Ladies and gentelmen, for your eyes only, the finest selection of pictorial delights gathered today from the far and obscure corners of the internet:

Thank you for watching.
via Tkliwi nihilisci opanowujacy pozycje dystansu

Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in depression

The most recent post from the dangerously poignant and witty Allie at Hyperbole and a Half. Click HERE to read through the complete painfully brilliant story of her depression, then spend the rest of the day binge-reading all her previous posts.
It's one of those blogs that will have you glued to your computer screen for hours, make you laugh with your mouth full and repeatedly shout "this is SO true" at the Internet.
An absolute *must*! :D

Art Robot!!!

SENSELESS DRAWING BOT from yang02 on Vimeo.

Awesome!

More black & wtf treasures

Loving the wtf factor;)

This American Life: Episode 428

"Oh you shouldn't have": the best This American Life episode I've heard in a long long while! Lock yourself away in a quiet room for an hour and tune in - prepare to be outraged, amused, angered, relieved and maybe even a bit tearful...?(!)

Have you ever wondered why it is that humans have the ability to find things beautiful?

I don't mean why one person might find something beautiful, while others will not. I mean: why do we have the capacity to perceive and experience beauty in the first place? What advantage does this characteristic have for our survival? And do people who are unable to experience beauty exist?

Click on image to have a closer look!
Orion Nebula as captured by NASA's Hubble & Spitzer Space Telescopes.
> source here <

Blog of note: Black and WTF

Amazing mesmerising collection of vintage photos featuring the obscure, the puzzling and the inexplicable!

Black and WTF

Forbidden Images

A magical sequence of images that were once deemed too immoral for public viewing. Enjoy!;)

"This short was made for the 2007 72 Hour Film Festival in Frederick, Maryland. All of the clips used in this film came from a reel of 35mm nitrate found in an old theater somewhere in Pennsylvania. The projectionist clipped these scenes to meet local moral standards of the time.
Will our current forms of censorship look just as ridiculous to future generations?"

Free Ida Maria songs!

++++8 tracks for your auditory pleasure!++++
including my new favourites: Cherry Red, Gigalo #3 & It's OK
Hotness!!! Thanks Ida!x

Soviet Occupational Hazard Posters

Don't
be stupid.

L: Containers with chemicals should have accurate inscriptions.
R: They are working upstairs - don’t stay under the mast.

L: Hide the hair.
R: Don’t walk on fish.

L: Hey, scatterbrain, don’t cripple your friends!
R: Don’t clean the cylinder while it’s in motion.

L: Be careful with forks.
R: Don’t use your leg for taking off the belting.

L: I was drunk at work.
R: Tie yourself working on steep roofs.

L: Don’t leave anything without bracing.
R: Look out for buffers.

L: Don’t open the lid of the picker before the engine stops.
R: Watch your step!

L: Don’t use water when extinguishing the engine. Water is an electricity conductor.
R: Put the work piece into the die mould only using the forceps. Dangerous!

L: Don’t walk under the transmission arbor.
R: Look where you’re going.

L: Be careful with a shovel.
R: Don’t clutter your working place!

Be careful with a spud. Look at the lady on the right - she is not sorry at all, is she?

Aren't these fantastic!? Found via English Russia page