Ice cream stealing birds.

Kyrgyzstan and Manas Air Base.

Clematiphilatelic more inside

Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. [They] have this blog, which is by invitation, a Flickr group, where anyone can share their location drawings, and a Google group to stay connected and foster discussion.

This is what snorkelling feels like, sort of. *sigh*

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.