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.” 

36 Hitchcock murder scenes climaxing in unison. // The malls of America, 1990. // Gas tanks of note. // Skyscrapers sway, Shinjuku, March 11 2011. // There’s honey in that tube. // Gloves of note. // How globes are made. // Brain bulb. // Miracle breakthrough in pillow technology. // Ordynskaya Cave, Russia. // Viewing platform, Aurland. (h/t, dicentra) // Earshell. // Horizonville. // “Homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class.” // Tour the Large Hadron Collider. // And behold the Cyclotrope, a modified bicycle wheel.

Made of oak, walnut and aluminium, a box that turns itself off.

Big Man Japan. // Space Hoppers in Venice. // You Are Listening to Los Angeles. // Time lapse antennas. // Cassini meets Saturn. // Esoteric sausage. // Know your spiders. // Cells. // Water. // The world of pizza boxes. // Marmite products rated. Marmite cashews? Why was I not told? // Bridges seen from Google Earth. // Little street dramas. // Dogbrella. // 1920s Egypt, in colour. (h/t, Coudal) // National Public Radio, for people who are “more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives.” // All the cool kids will want one of these. // Big caves in Vietnam. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Bill Bailey’s rather nifty guide to the orchestra.

200,000 creatures caught on automated cameras. (h/t, MeFi) // Octopus and hatchlings. // PewPewPewPewPew! // Opera house of note. // How to make a laser from a gin and tonic. // At last, the Battleship drinking game. // Kinetic sculptures by Anne Lilly. // Monster prominence, February 24 2011. // Bus passes of Milwaukee, 1930-1979. (h/t, Coudal) // Shanghai. // “This is not Sweden… This is our area.” And some French multiculturalism. // On “outgroups” and “ingroups.” (h/t, Franklin) // In three dee. // Nyiragongo Crater. (h/t, prm) //  Farmyard indecency. (h/t, Julia) // Which came first? // Infuse whole fruit with delicious gas.