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.

Panorama of an Airbus A380 cockpit. Just don’t touch anything. (h/t, Coudal.) // “It’s really just a big thing falling on the ground that we want to make sure we’re prepared for.” // Domo-kun cooks, sweats and emits green gas. The rest is hard to fathom. // Croatian food company issues annual report in oven-bake form. 100ºC for 25 minutes. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Just drying my octopus.  As you do. // Impressive drill bits. // How to build a Lego geodesic dome. // Light-emitting wallpaper. // More remarkable bridges. // Cut-away car illustrations. // Robot calligraphy. // Robert Hodgin’s Magnetic Ink. More. And. // “A 25 letter message can be up to 20 miles long, seen for 400 square miles, and written in as short as 2 minutes.” That’s skytyping. More. // The virtual typewriter museum. // A collection of typewriter ribbon tins. // Furry pencils. // Post-it note projects we have known and loved. // Balaclava with beard. £135. // How to make a kimono. // Pimp my sewing machine. // Marijuana vending machine. Medicinal use only. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Warping negative space. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) // A map of religion in the U.S. // Andrew Bostom on Hitler and Muhammad. // The L Ron Hubbard audio collection. // And, via The Thin Man, Dinah watches the skies.   

The Stalinmobile. It’s post-ironic, I think.

Related: Stalin’s actual cars and other personal items. And.

Michael Jack has a fine collection of vintage transistor radios, mostly circa 1957-63.

Via Coudal.

The Red Russian Army Choir and the Leningrad Cowboys are happy together. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // Dr Strangelove transcript. (h/t, Coudal.) // Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man. (1996) Excellent documentary. Part 2. (h/t, The Thin Man.) // Film directors, directing. // Tarkovsky bloopers. Oh, how we laughed. // The passage of time may not be what it was. // Hinode telescope footage of the Sun’s chromosphere. More. // Volcanic plume on Io. // Bearded men of the 21st century. (1939) “The man of the next century will revolt against shaving.” // Mark Steyn on the wrongs of Canada’s Human Rights Commission. // And on the right kind of imperialism. // Mr Eugenides on Seumas Milne. // Norman Geras on double standards. // Why Martin Luther King was a Republican. Discuss. // The H-Bomb and You. (1954) // BSG season 4 preview. // Everything you need to know about Lost in 8 minutes 15 seconds. // Dante’s Cove. What Torchwood wishes it was. (h/t, The Thin Man.) // Jerry O’Connell does Tom Cruise. Wait for the laugh. // Scientology documents. “Between 38 trillion years ago and present time a lot of off-beat implants can be found.” // Reconstructing shredded Stasi documents. “We all knew they could know everything. But we didn’t understand what that meant until that moment. Suddenly it was palpable.” // How to peel potatoes. (h/t, Grow-a-brain.) // A toilet seat for cats. $109.95 // And, via The Thin Man, it’s all about appearance.