Apr 07
I know you’re all wondering how many sheets of rice paper is a lot. And I’m going to tell you. 8,000. When I think of a lot of rice paper I am thinking of 8,000 sheets of rice paper. More »
Apr 04
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM, but in a deal that saw them retain entire control of the software. To mark the occasion, the pair were photographed amid a sea of contemporary computers—and now they’ve recreated the image. More »
Apr 03
Transitioning back to normal life after WWII had its fair share of challenges for soldiers, one of which was a housing shortage. Lustron houses—prefabricated enamel steel homes—were a direct response to the dearth. This is a 1949 picture of all of the components of one of the cookie cutter abodes laid out like puzzle pieces. More »
Apr 03
Airports are a weird contradiction; labyrinthine roadways and arteries between terminals, surrounded by an expanse of seemingly limitless straightaways. Put both together and you get wonderfully calculated mayhem, and a few killer photos. More »
Apr 02
Sometimes, a new view of something you know well can make you stop and stare—like this beautiful image of New York at night, snapped by crew aboard the ISS. More »
Apr 01
Not all meteor strikes have to be scary, exploding harbingers of an apocalypse to come. More often, in fact, they’re just pretty. This one just screaming on through the Northern Lights even moreso than most. More »
Apr 01
Brian Green (author of The Elegant Universe) just posted this photo on his Facebook wall with the following description: More »
Apr 01
You think you’re a coffe connoisseur? Well then, you should have no problem ordering your pick-me-up of choice from this menu, which lists drink options purely by the ratios of coffee, milk, water and air present in the beverage. More »
Mar 27
Bright Lights, Old iMacs
Posted in: Today's Chili
Even with their outdated CRT displays, Apple’s old rainbow assortment of iMacs are just too damn adorable to toss. But what do you do if you have a few still lying around taking up desk space? If you’re Toronto-based travel and tour company G Adventures, you swap their heavy guts for bulbs and string them up in your offices as pendant lights. More »
Mar 27
We’ve all seen our share of quadruple rainbows and rainbows from space, but it’s not to often you catch on lying down one the job. A particularly lazy refraction showed up in Paris the other day, but it’s not quite as it seems. More »
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