flickering pictures

I see a lot of neat stuff on the Web, but this really hit me.
The brilliant gang at Mental Floss somehow discovered an anonymous beta site featuring 6,000 scanned polaroids — one taken each day from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997. Some impressive detective work by the Mental Floss crew turned up […]

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The good people at [RE]ENCODED DOT COM have compiled a collection of 40 business cards, from the do-it-yourself card above to the handy-dandy 2-in-1 divorce lawyer card below. Other “cards” include everything from balloons to bottle openers, clothespins to pop-up art.

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Last night I stumbled upon one of the most chilling and touching print journalism pieces I’ve seen in a while, courtesy of the Guardian’s Tania Branigan. It is painfully human and will make you want to cry. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Tenderly, she eased the clean fleece over her little boy’s hand […]

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Dove’s much-ballyhooed “Real Beauty” advertising campaign makes a point of showcasing “real women” — love handles and all — as opposed to the scrawny models and twenty-somethings that typically prance around in beauty product ads. As it turns out, the Dove models may not be so real after all.
The New Yorker’s Lauren Collins recently […]

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In the spirit of uncovering weird and wonderful things, here’s a link to Divine Caroline, which features pics and tidbits on some of the world’s strangest plants.
Up top is welwitschia mirabilis, which apparently has only two leaves in that entire writhing mass of foliage. The one at right is amorphophallus, which translates from the […]

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Look into my eyes and say no by ~Fatts on deviantART

A good friend of mine is a photographer, globetrotter, modeling agent and quite possibly the only Palestinian-Canadian in Beijing. The lady above is of one of his clients — a Russian model named Tatiana Gritsayenko. Click here for a SFW gallery of his […]

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As plucked from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and promptly googled:

“I rise to pay my small tribute to Dr. Harding. Setting aside a college professor or two and a half dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, he takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati. That is to say, he writes the worst English that […]

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I came across this video quite a while ago, after falling head over heels for the brilliant piano piece called “Every Day” that accompanies it. The music is by Brooklyn-based Carly Comando, whose Myspace page lists over 380,000 plays for this song despite the fact that she doesn’t seem to have released a CD […]

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