The handsomest young man in England!

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Poet Rupert Brooke, who Yeats called “the handsomest young man in England” and who Virginia Woolf bragged about skinny-dipping with, posing as Comus, the Greek god of “nocturnal dalliances“ sometime prior to 1915, the year he died of an infected mosquito bite off the coast of Greece.

~Hal Foster

Victoria Wright Photos. has added a photo to the pool:

Love how this adorable Burrowing Owl looks like it has been dragged through a bush backwards.....It must have a been a wet, long night !!!

While the GOP doubled down and coughed up Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, the Vatican gave us Pope Francis—a friendly guy, smart, funny, unpretentious, nonjudgmental, a sort of dream pope as envisioned by Aaron Sorkin.

David Marx's invention is the result of a three-year collaboration with university scientists, a three-star chef, and a manufacturer of industrial nitrogen machinery.

Historical Map: San Francisco Muni Transit Routes, 1970

For a long period of time, the San Francisco Municipal Railway, (commonly shortened to just “Muni”) used pretty much exactly the same map in their brochures. It seems that each year, they’d simply make any amendments required – addition of new routes, deletion of old ones, etc. –  and then reprint the brochure/map in a new colour combination.

The earliest example I can find, from 1952, uses a sombre two-color palette of black and red, mostly tinted down to greys and pinks. However, by 1970, the map had evolved into this gloriously garish three-colour purple, yellow and black vision that suits the post-Summer of Love San Francisco perfectly.

The map shows all Muni streetcar, coach and cable car services, but with no visible mode differentiation – express services are shown with a dashed line. However, the map’s actually pretty clean and easy to follow: route termini are clearly shown by route numbers in large circles, and there’s enough smaller numbers along each route to allow you to follow them from one end to the other.

Also of note: basic fare is just 20 cents!

Our rating: Groovy, man! A psychedelic re-imagining of a long-serving and functional map. Four stars.

(Source: Eric Fischer/Flickr)

In case you missed it, Oct. 7–13 was designated Naturopathic Medicine Week, according to a Senate resolution sponsored by Sen. Barbara Mikulski and passed by the Senate with unanimous consent. Among the reasons the Senate cited:

Mahbod "Vyvanse" Moghadam, noted Yale graduate, is making a career of acting like a minor lunatic, but it's nothing a little brain surgery couldn't fix, he says.

There’s nothing less sexualized than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All they want to do is be in the 1980s, say Cowabunga, follow a big-ass rat around and eat pizza. So it’s probably safe for a girl to

Oh goddamn it.

Samarkand, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, 1968.

Baaaaaaby otter! Fuzzy baby otter! Look at its fuzzy little paws! 

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We love otters. 

Breviary, Use of Verdun, Winter portion ('The Breviary of Renaud de Bar' or 'The Breviary of Marguerite de Bar')

A lone acacia, known as the Tree of Ténéré, once stood defiantly in northeast Niger. For ages it lived companionless in the vast Sahara desert, the only tree for over 250 miles, until one day, some idiot came along and rammed it with a truck, snapping it in half.

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Peter O’Toole.

1966’s Francis Pinton sunglasses.

New fall menu coming out! Come have Turtles in Thyme which is a diamond back variation, with rittenhouse rye, apple jack, chartreuse and an apple thyme cordial!

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Fluorite

it’s like a chunk of the night sky

"Today's announcement on Banksy.co.uk points to a larger obstacle that Banksy will be facing going forward with his New York residency, the New York Police Department's draconian anti-graffiti policies." Hyperallergic 10/23/13

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black cats 

Bestiary, England 13th century.

Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r

"New revelations about ancient Greek music have emerged from a few dozen ancient documents inscribed with a vocal notation devised around 450 BC, consisting of alphabetic letters and signs placed above the vowels of the Greek words." BBC 10/23/13

Our family name meant “bad luck man” in Polish, German, Dutch, Hungarian and Czech. When half of Europe reads it, they think instantly of misfortune. Who would want to saddle their children with that?

How pro-oil Louisiana politicians have shaped American environmental policy

Mathias Bynens: Whenever you’re working on a piece of JavaScript code that deals with strings or regular expressions in some way, just add a unit test that contains a pile of poo (💩) in a string, and see if anything breaks. It’s a quick, fun, and easy way to see if your code supports astral symbols. Once you’ve found a Unicode-related bug in your code, all you need to do is apply the techniques discussed in this post to fix it.

Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg ordered to leave his diocese amid scandal over his alleged lavish spending

Pope Francis has ordered the German Roman Catholic prelate known as the "luxury bishop" for spending €31m(£26m) on a residence to leave his diocese for an unspecified period.

The move, just short of a resignation, was taken against Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg two days after he met the pope at the Vatican to discuss the scandal in the German church at a time when the pontiff is stressing the importance of humility and serving the poor.

This mirror is silver and exact. It has no preconceptions. Whatever you see it swallows immediately. $90 OBO.

“Massachusetts” is a just-released ode to the Bay State by the folks behind “The Fox,” the Norwegian talk-show duo Ylvis. As a native of Cape Cod, I approve of this quirky (if not homoerotic) song and its overly celebratory music video.

video via TVNorge

via Gawker

Well it may not be a true terrarium, but this concept design by Almasov Aibek is a cylindrical, transparent house centered around a living tree.  Talk about getting close to nature!  I wonder if the tree would lose out somehow by not being exposed to the wind and the elements.  Not to mention - pollinators!  Or would you let bees into your house on occasion?

Tell me in the comments - would you live in a house like this?

See more at A. Masow Design Studio, originally spotted at i09.

Chances are good that if you went to college in the United States after, say, 1975, your campus featured at least one imposing, bunker-like concrete building in the architectural style known as “Brutalism.”

Matthew says: "Here's a YouTube video of three men destroying a rock formation in Goblin Valley, Utah. Geologists estimate the rock formation was approximately 200 million years old, formed during the Triassic Period (Mesozoic Era)."

I wonder if the rock can be replaced? If so, these men should be made to pay for it.

Boy Scout leaders destroy ancient formation in Utah's Goblin Valley