"We had an office full of people sitting with our jaws on the table..."
"I had heard about this film through various channels off and on through the years. It had gotten to the point where it was almost apocryphal in my mind.... Nobody knew where it was, nobody had ever...
View ArticleWith tingle tentacles. CE Listed. Made in China.
Decontextualized product labels: "DirectionsforMe provides the information that’s on consumer packages or labels in a simple online format for anyone who has trouble reading the small print including...
View Article"I can keep it on my bookshelf without worry of remote recall."
"E-book backup is a physical, tangible, human readable copy of an electronically stored novel. The purchased contents of an e-book reader were easily photocopied and clip-bound to create a shelf-stable...
View Article"new, innovative ways to convey our findings"
The US GAO Flickr page features selected photos and graphics from US Government Accountability Office reports that are searchable, viewable, and downloadable by visitors to their site.
View ArticleBefore Google maps: Six hundred miles of highways
The photographs in this set depict roads and highways in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1892 to 1893. The photos accompany the "Report of the Commission to Improve the Highways of the...
View Article"In terms of beer, cutting 1 metre of the board cost 54.3 litres of it."
The story of the world’s longest wooden board.
View ArticleWhen Baby gets that first haircut, Mother saves the hair.
"Hair work mourning jewelry served as a sentimental and tangible memorial to the deceased. In the late 1700s, hair work started to become professionalized, but tradesmen were soon deemed untrustworthy....
View ArticleTraded to Chicago Cubs for a washing machine.
Not everyone was delighted when Will Ferrell played 10 positions for 10 different teams (all field positions and base coach) in five games in one day last week in the Cactus League--in order to raise...
View Article"There's a cowman who knows how to use an airplane!"
"Prior to the explosive tragedy that turned the Hindenburg into a synonym for disaster, the famous zeppelin transported [antelope] across the Atlantic to German zoos."
View Article"This is the guy you’ve been talking about in all those pages."
Jason Baca has been the cover model for over 400 romance novels. What is his life like? "Things get a little weird" he admits.
View Article"A quotidian object would have a small peephole... "
"The lenses measure less than a centimeter in length; the [often pornographic] photographs glued to them are the size of the head of a pin." The Kinsey Institute talks about Stanhopes, the Snapchat of...
View Article"You could build a house of milk with this one neat trick..."
Galalith. The world's first plastic. Known as "milk stone" it was created by the interaction of casein and formaline. Produced in the 1900s in great quantities in France and Germany, it was used as an...
View Articlethe most beautiful and perfectly finished floating church in the world
The Floating Church of the Redeemer 1848-1853."It was the sight of the floating gothic church making her way up and down the Delaware River, with banners flying from her 75′ foot steeple, that inspired...
View ArticleThe joys and solitude of Alaska
While he may "struggle at poetry" Alaska trial lawyer Phillip Weidner has built an epically poetic 185 foot log cabin tower in Talkeetna Alaska. Called the Dr. Seuss House, its actual name is the...
View Article“Dancing saved my life.”
Sal “Doc Lock” Barcena is a member of the GroovMekanex, a Bay Area group dedicated to preserving popular local dance styles from the 70’s, like Strutting and Locking which he does with fellow dancer...
View ArticleFallout (disambiguation)
"I asked Ralph Eldridge if he would share some of the migrating-songbird photos he has taken as a lighthouse keeper. [We] were slack-jaw amazed by the sight of so many types of songbirds together. The...
View Article"I've gone through my whole life trying to avoid this moment"
Lesbians Touch Penis For The First Time! By the women who brought you Gay Men Touch Vagina for the First time (featuring Stevie), Straight Women Touch Another Vagina For The First Time and Straight Men...
View ArticleDedicated to the appreciation of the mundane in everyday life
The Umbrella Cover Museum is about finding wonder and beauty in the simplest of things, and about knowing that there is always a story behind the cover. [via]
View ArticleThis massive bookcase is hinged and hides a secret closet...
Joe Patten was born in 1927, and he lived until his death last week inside Atlanta's Fox Theatre, which opened in 1929. Over 35 years ago Joe, who was instrumental in saving the theater in 1974, was...
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