Some things can’t wait ‘til Friday. How to make luminous gin and tonic jelly.

When gulls want your camera. // That’s an awful lot of lightning. // Yes, but is it vaginal? // Dog with bionic paws. (h/t, Peter) // Abandoned airliners. // Bacon jam. (h/t, Chastity Darling) // Broccoli house. // Beercandy. // Curveball. (h/t, The Thin Man) // Thou shalt not cut the cheese. // Tod Browning’s Freaks, 1932. // Rayguns made of glass. // Clocktower apartment, only 23 million dollars. // Two second strangeness. // Archive of Reith Lectures. // Monochrome watercolours. // Monochrome photography. // Monochrome city. // What to make of Michael Bay? // Why people laugh at Johann Hari (part 326).

Behold the electric dicycle (with active rotation damping). // Now this is just showing off. // Eleven hundred cars roam the Hot Wheels City. // Cat caught barking, cover blown. // A compendium of really bad records. // You don’t want to mess with Russian border guard dogs. (h/t, Herb) // Andrew Breitbart interviewed. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5. // Burnt toast, only $1. // It’s raining ice-cream. // Real headlines. // Desktop terrariums. // Parents and their children (and a transporter malfunction). // Shake. // And via The Thin Man, “Adam Curtis believes that 200,000 Guardian readers watching BBC2 could change the world.” 

Play with the solar system. // A digitised collection of handheld electronic games. // Get a six-pack in seconds. // Tornado meets hardware store. // A brief guide to space junk. // Man builds own scanning electron microscope. // Edible biro. // Modern-day Kyrgyzstan. // Unmelting. // Music and emotion. // Chicks plus webcam. // Tweaking James’ face. // The tax wedge. // For those who miss the shutdown of tube televisions. // The dark(er) side of socialism: “How do we bring down the stock markets?” // Photographs of frontier life, 1887-1892. (h/t, Peter Risdon) // Girls making gun sounds. // Why frogs are awesome.

Workers on the Forth Rail Bridge, North Queensferry, 1996. Photographed by Peter Stubbs.

Tail rudder of a B-36 bomber being repaired by mechanics at Carswell Air Force Base, 1951. Photographer unknown.

Via Scaffoldage, home of “skeletal archiporn.”