Electrons over Chicago. // Cardboard speakers. // Conan the Barbarian: the Musical. // A brief guide to boogers. // The hipster fashion cycle. // Ankle pony boots. // Eyeborg. // Bear rug. // Mandelbox. // Glenn Beck on lost American history. (h/t, dicentra) // “It wasn’t peace activists who liberated Auschwitz.” // Puffer fish. // Ventricle vase. // A collection of miniature heads. // Surfers and swimmers, seen from below. (h/t, Coudal) // Serendipity. // Going down, going up. // For people with partial hands. // At last, waffle lollies. // Shatner does War of the Worlds. 

Watch your enemies flee from the mighty robochair. // Bee. // Coloured bacon. // Mobile bush. // A festival of facial hair. // The Butch Clothing Company, for ladies who like waistcoats. // How to stick your hand into molten lead. // Assorted bowling scoreboards. // Amputee cat gets bionic feet. // The photographs of Stuart Hall. // Honolulu, August 14, 1945. (h/t, Coudal) // ‘Shroom lamps. // Cellmate of note. // New York, 1910. // Unicorn meat. // Stop-motion drawing. // Secure parking. // Sci-fi airshow. // “The balloon reached an altitude of 125,ooo feet, recording video along the way.” 

Small child + rocket = home dentistry. // Rock-paper-scissors world championships. // The Russian Empire, 1909-1915. (h/t, Mick) // Boeing 720 controlled impact demonstration, in stills and video. (h/t, Things) // Itty bitty cars. // Enclosed electric motorbike. // Magnetic tape fondling. // Working Lego firearms. // Tone of voice reveals upper body strength. // Because everyone should have a sling for their axe. // 1,172 NASA images. // A blog about the whiteboards in the Big Bang Theory. // Scale. (h/t, TDK) // How to make a Chicago-style hot dog. // Hitchens on the Prince of Piffle. // The x-ray pin-up calendar. // Augmented shadow. 

Precision parking. A 57” wide car meets a 61” wide garage. // The pencil crossbow. // Frog petting. // Octopus claims coconut. // A tornado made of wool. (h/t, Coudal) // Tape measure skillz. (h/t, The Thin Man) // The physics of Mega Shark. // Embalming for beginners. // A brief history of the computer. // Evolving robots. // Online egg timer. // McDonald’s menu items from around the world. // How to advertise tuna fish. // Eagle cam. // Treegate. (h/t, Mr E) // Tokyo’s N Building. // A-ki-ra! // Russians at the North Pole, circa 1950. // Devices and debris orbiting Earth. // The scale of the universe. // Aliens: the rap version. 

Owls in flight. // Cheese or font? A game for all the family. // Fabric in a can. // Shockwave cannon. // The Hulc exoskeleton. // Steampunk Gameboy. // The clever bottlenose. // Bear versus cat. // Mouse versus leopard. // Nun versus shark. // On the Sherlock Holmes title sequence. // Little Italy, circa 1900. // Bacon beer. (h/t, Mr Eugenides) // Brain slug cupcakes. // Tibetan sky burials. (h/t, MeFi) // A tree house for the kids. // The redefinition of greed. // The mysteries of pinball. // Utah panoramas. // Porn for the blind. (audio nsfw)

I know you’re above such things, obviously, but you may know someone for whom this may be helpful.

Meat hand. // Double jeopardy. // Cute things falling asleep. // First, position your molecules. // Photo manipulation of yore. // Murphy’s Law calculator. // Places you cannot go. // A pleasing sofa. // Thumbthing. // I’d like my ice in a sphere, please. // At last, a space cannon. // Professor Alexander’s botanical vasculum. // Blown metal. // Build your own working phaser. // Shatner meets Winkler, feelings ensue. // A radical breakthrough in the world of rock. // Tourism in Croatia. // Power plant time lapse. // Japanese jetpack.

First-person Tetris. // Pong reinvented. // Print your own 3-D objects. // Turn any flat surface into a touch screen. // News Update! One of these. (h/t, Coudal) // The Museum of Useful Things. // Permanent glasses. // Tape installations. // The possessions of William Burroughs. // A spot of Armstrong & Miller. // Alligator bread. // The Grand Canyon. // A database of dreams. // The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (h/t, MeFi) // Enhance grid 17. // Sushi etiquette. // Will it waffle? // The modern way to stun your lobster. // And, sadly, this never got built.

For some reason this tickled me. I think it’s chiefly due to John Hurt (far right). Sort of Alien meets Man at C&A.

More. Via Nerd Boyfriend.

It took 800 exposures, three nights and a rented room.

Emily said yes.