Le Whif. Chocolate you inhale. // Airplane and the Sun. (h/t, Brian Micklethwait) // Spot the man made objects. // Servicing Hubble. // Texan sky time-lapse. // Fly baby. // Speaker porn. // Potato faces. (h/t, Coudal) // Why your print job is late. // When bodybuilders flee. // A brief history of weed. // Reach. A robot’s tale. // Kabul. // Abandoned objects. (h/t, Mick Hartley) // Ads of yore. // Table archipelago. // Antique typewriters. // A gallery of newly discovered species. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Ms Rose Murphy.

The museum of scientifically accurate fabric brain art. (h/t, Cronaca) // Kate MccGwire makes sculpture out of pigeon feathers. // Airplane hotel, Costa Rica. // B-2 stealth bomber. // Water-powered jet pack. // At last, a heated ice-cream scoop. (h/t, sk60) // Your very own wine tasting bar. // Another circumhorizontal arc. // Vanity pixels. // Vertical radiators. // Futuristic megastructures. // Ruins. // How to draw animals. (h/t, Things) // Vintage picture stories. // Vintage health and safety. (h/t, Coudal) // International toothpaste museum. // 19th century obstetrics dolls. // A history of political correctness. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr William “Count” Basie.

I’m off to see Star Trek this morning. While I’m away, here’s the trailer, deconstructed. 

Don’t stare at it too long. Make your own.

Sand sculpture festival, 2009. // Explore Rio. // If your lifespan was a movie, whereabouts would you be? // Star Trek film quite good, fans upset. // Baffled by Shatner. // Shatnerquake. // Carbon atoms in motion. // Communists in the rain. // Ronald Reagan gives good speech, 1964. (h/t, The Thin Man) // Andy Warhol paints Debbie Harry using an Amiga, 1985. // Quimby the Mouse. // Comic book hair. // Edible alphabet. // Le Mans, 1953. // Storage tanks of note. // The wind-up vibrator. // 20,000 images of polar exploration. // What’s in the Box? A student film. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Tony Hatch. 

The Shorpy Photo Archive has some intriguing vintage images. This, for instance, taken in Washington, DC, circa 1917: