Hand held fireballs. Caution advised. // MIT sketching. With gravity and marbles. // Octopus amour. // 100 beauties of Tokyo. A bevy of geisha. (h/t, Coudal.) // A hitchhiking photo-diary. New York to Alaska. // World’s smallest dice. // Online craps. // Tank mishaps. // Rebecca Bynum on Yvonne Ridley. // Andrew Bostom on European anti-Semitism. “Muslims are responsible for half of the documented Anti-Semitic incidents on the European continent.” // Ibn Warraq on why the West is best. // Robert Bussard on inertial electrostatic confinement fusion. (h/t, Samizdata.) More. // Birth of the microwave oven. // Why Study Science? (1955) // “Cloverpuppy want to live!” // Cloverfield synopsis. // Science fiction versus the Statue of Liberty. // Manhattan, unmolested. By Matthias Sanne. // A compendium of science fiction timelines. // Turkey, seen from a height of 1000ft. (h/t, Dark Roasted Blend.) // Industrial culture photography. (h/t, Mick Hartley.) // Plants and typography. Together at last. // Alarming bugs. // Bugs that fight. // Canned cheeseburger. A miracle breakthrough. // How to get an egg inside a small bottle. // Derren Brown’s subliminal advertising. // And, via The Thin Man, there’s witchcraft afoot.

Time, I mean. Tomorrow will mark one year since I started this website, during which close to 400,000 visitors have paused to look around. Both of these things amaze me. Feedback has been surprisingly positive and, inspiration permitting, I’m hoping to spend more time working on it in future. As regular visitors will know, the content is pretty eclectic (by disorder, not design) and includes essays on art, academia, Islam and politics, along with interviews, news commentary, over 1,000 bits of ephemera and quite a few short films, some of which are touching, while others are just peculiar or in questionable taste. 

Suggestions, comments and corrections are, of course, welcome. As are PayPal donations, which help keep this place running and make me feel important. 

That is all. Carry on.