tonight was like this.

via

the curving hip, the soothing shade: Almonds

just a really good photo.

Human-flesh Search Engines in China

Human-flesh search engines - renrou sousuo yinqing - have become a Chinese phenomenon: they are a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath. The goal is to get the targets of a search fired from their jobs, shamed in front of their neighbors, run out of town. It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online with offline results.

Steampunk Waterslide: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive

regardless of how you feel about steampunk, this looks fun.  and, i could use some fun.

War Grave (via Aerial Photography)

great find by katie.

soxiam:

wu-tang crossing the delaware ain’t nothing ta fuck wit’

my version of a snow day.

I See You (via stopkatie)

i’m not usually into excessive pet photos but katie has been doing a great job taking a photo of mister each day.

related:  jamie.

newsweek:

vizualize:

Luck is 50:50 (NOTCOT)

Something that always fascinated us about Ringworld was this notion of breeding people to be lucky (for those of you who had a social life as a teenager, the book in part was about a future in which many people have to win the lottery in order to have a baby); we have always been curious about whether this would actually work.

karma really is a bitch.

homeofthevain:

Alain Resnais, L’Année dernière à Marienbad (poster)

I don’t know if you know: everything comes apart if you find the strand, and even the shadows lie.

wow.

The design philosophy of the AK-47 (via dgray_xplane)

Don’t design for a perfect world, because the world isn’t perfect. Design simple things that are rugged, reliable, simple and easy to use; things that work even when conditions are chaotic; things that work even when they are mostly broken.