Vaudeville ventriloquist dummy portraits. You heard me. // Animals with two heads. // World’s largest shark tank. // Decommissioned cooling tower. // Feminist economics. Oh yes. Be afraid. // Former dissident Yuri Yarim-Agaev on the nature and memory of communism. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5. // Quote of note. // Assorted cinemagraphs. // Notable science videos. Includes Nature by Numbers and Touring the Earth from Space. // An illustrated list of suspicious vans. (h/t, Coudal) // The technology of the pizza box. // Spider-Man rebooted. Already? // Light painting. // Mushroom cloud lamp. // “And what is your message, Mr Miliband?”

The debris may amuse.

Laurie Penny, of whom we’ve spoken often, is rolling in a ditch with Julie Bindel, whose subtlety of mind has previously been noted.

How to deactivate a cat. (h/t, rjmadden) // Weighing orphaned owls. // Migration flows across the world. // Meat forks of note. // Notable trees. (h/t, MeFi) // Teller (minus Penn) on making magic. // Tiny things in tiny bottles. // Cardboard giant. // Cities at night. // Do San Francisco by Zeppelin. // Artificially dyed frogs. It’s a thing in China. // Space shuttle flight deck. I see no cup holder. // Storms on Saturn. // Sand magnified. // Your tax dollars at work. “Social justice.” // Tetris alarm clock. Clear four lines to switch it off. // The Museum of Useful Things. // Video coat for the ravers of tomorrow. // Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

The bin liner poncho is a classy touch.

Cymbals don’t behave quite how you’d imagine. // Nor does water, for that matter. // Toast mosaic, made of toast. // The unmade trains of tomorrow. (h/t, Mr Eugenides) // The video time machine. // Necklaces of human hair. // Harryhausen monsters. // Emergency underpants dispenser. // Marlon Brrando: percussionist and inventor. // Faces of note. // Face projection by the chap who did this. // How Pac-Man sees the world. // Dust storm. // Resonance. // Squidlings. // Statistic of note. // Theodore Dalrymple: Murder Most Academic. // Angry people in local newspapers; includes student rubbish anger and noisy cock anger.