Danbusha

Mad Man Vincent Kartheiser’s tiny Hollywood cabin

Maison Germanier, Switzerland

A bridge too far

Say It With Sea Otters

lustik:

Cath Price Ceramics

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

Dr. Seuss

Love wears you out

Hey, that’s my bike.

"[T]his isn’t about me. It’s about the three-quarters of a million people who are arrested for simple possession every year. And the fact that blacks are arrested at seven times the rate of whites. Which is a subtle way to suppress the black vote, because 48 states limit voting rights for convicted felons. Only two states do not: Maine and Vermont. And Maine’s black population consists of a bear.”

Bill Maher on Marijuana Civil Rights Issue

Orchard Keepers

House G: a barn redux

Can’t Get Away From It All? The Problem Isn’t Technology — It’s You

"Getting away from technology by leaving it behind becomes a pointless exercise in competitive reductionism. Where do you draw the line? Your smartphone? Your GPS? Your compass? Your tent? Fire?

Here’s a better idea: Shut up and bring your iPhone into the backcountry, but resist the urge to open the email app. If you can’t manage that, delete or turn off the account. Don’t worry, it’ll come back.

The phone isn’t the problem. The problem is us—our inability to step away from email and games and inessential data, our inability to look up, be it at an alpine lake or at family members. We won’t be able to get away from it all for very much longer. So it’s vitally important that each of us learns how to live with a persistent connection, everywhere we go, whether it’s in the wilderness or at a dinner party.”

Mischief Night

Flowing Data

Costume update

The More You Know

A Carpenter’s cabin

Chapter I by Félix Luque Sánchez:

The installation “Chapter I: The Discovery” consists of a sculpture representing an unidentified object in the shape of a dodecahedron and a number of videos restaging the moment of its discovery.

Read more.

Measuring America’s Decline, In Three Charts

A Tiny Oregon House

"I’ve never seen more white knuckles."

"The entire world has an interest in the South China Sea, but China has nearly 1.4 billion mouths and a growing appetite for nationalism to feed, which is a kind of pressure that no other country can understand."

“‘You’ve got the wrong science-fiction movie,’ one former highly placed U.S. official later told me, when I described what we saw at Subi, and what it might mean for the guys on Ayungin. ‘It’s not the Death Star. It’s actually the Borg from ‘Star Trek’: ‘You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.’  The scholar Huang Jing put it another, more organic way. ‘The Chinese expand like a forest, very slowly,’ he said. ‘But once they get there, they never leave.’”

Another fascinating interactive from NYT: A Game of Shark & Minnow

“The Scott Expedition is a 1,800-mile (2,900km), four-month unsupported return journey from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole on foot following [the same route that claimed the lives of Captain Robert Scott and his men a century ago]. Equivalent to 69 back-to-back marathons, the team will face temperatures as low as -50 °C and will haul sledge loads of up to 200kg each.”

Then & Now | NG & All in the Mind

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” —Betrand Russell
By Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux

The Expiration Date