Performance drug use - more sophisticated than I had the slightest inkling of.

Gobekli Tepe: Do these mysterious stones mark the site of the Garden of Eden? [Via]

A photographic survey of London's remaining professional darkrooms. Several of the darkrooms featured have since closed down. Others will surely follow. (The darkroom with the slogan pinned to the wall, 'I want to stay here forever', was dismantled shortly after I photographed it and is now being converted into luxury apartments.)

In a post-natural world, can the machine elves recreate nature? Nature and unreality interpenetrate in the nano-macro-engineering projects depicted in Michael Shaw's art. Enjoy! more inside

Beard Head

Fantastic Museum Specimens more inside

Jiuzhaigou: China's Mystic Waters.

Immorality a Lot Like Rotten Food: Evidence for the Oral Origins of Moral Disgust.

Get clean coal clean! (NEW Air Freshener). A new PSA directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. [Via]

The Sopranos, Sex and The City, The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Rome, Band Of Brothers… All have raised the creative bar for all forms of popular entertainment, showing that television at its best can equal the artistic merit of the greatest movies and works of literature.

Glasses filter: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/photogalleries/fish-transparent-head-barreleye-picture/

No Room Service, Just Snacks and Shit and other ridiculous rap lyrics.

John Hodgman on "meh"

Lawmaker proposes fixing California's budget crisis... by legalizing pot and taxing it. more inside

Juiced? How the firms that process and market orange juice manufacture [pdf] the taste-illusion of freshness.

Never Mind the Pussycat 'This exhibit focuses on a brief period of Lear’s youth. Beginning when he was still an adolescent, until he was twenty-five, Edward Lear worked as a natural history illustrator. During this period, he created some of the most extraordinary images of birds ever made.' more inside

Urban Repair Squad They say city is broke. We fix. No charge.

Lost: the cake. So maybe I'm one of the few who can't stop watching Lost. And I have this fondness for Hurley. Turns out he has a blog. And also that they recently filmed their 100th episode, so celebrated with a cake by TV's Ace of Cakes. The details are amazing.

The Largest Collection of Horse Graffiti EVAR!!! . If you like horse art, you'll probably faint from horse art overload. If you like graffiti art, you'll probably faint from graffiti art overload. If you like this post, let me know! BlueHorse: I'm ALL about the horses! via: The Equinest = one GREAT equine website. Thanks, Paige!

Josh Freese, ex-drummer from Nine Inch Nails, is selling his new album. Plus some extras, for a price. While $7 buys you the digital download, $50 will get you the album plus a phone call from Freese, and for only $75,000 Freese will join your band for a month. For real or just for jokes?