Busy today, but here’s a rather fine collection of condiment sachets.

There’s just about every possible formulation of ketchup, mustard and spicy relish, and several substances I can’t quite identify.

(Via Coudal.)

Chinese space race propaganda. Pandas, kittens, reindeer, all flying into space. (h/t, Coudal.) // Armour for cats and mice. Let battle commence. (h/t, Things.) // The wardrobe of Watchmen. // Welding masks we have known and loved. // Cloverfield green screen. The seams revealed. // BSG in 8 minutes. Roslin loves that airlock. // Brett Lock on pricey booze and social engineering. // Fabian Tassano on disaffection as illness. // Flemming Rose on the Vatican and al-Azhar, united in piety. // Michael Sheridan visits three of the Bali bombing jihadists. “Some try to make a link between al-Qaeda and us. The only link is faith.” // Iranian shoppers turn on Islamic modesty police. // High on Mount Sinai? The tripping Israelites. (h/t, Chastity Darling.) // 10 mental curios. // Mind reading machine will know what you’re looking at. // HAL’s display screens. // Snowflakes and bacteria. (h/t, Dark Roasted Blend.) // The Zenith music hall, Strasbourg. // Tree houses of note. // Eco-terrorists burn down three Seattle homes. For Gaia, of course. // The leather dachshund bag. £65. // Family Guy chicken fight, rounds 1, 2 and 3. // Pork Knox. // The periodic table of condiments. // My pepper heart. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra.

I think this is what’s referred to as weapon porn. Meet the FMG-9. It’s a flashlight and a firearm. And I’m terribly impressed.

Via Hot Air. More.

Located 250km north of the Arctic Circle, Sweden’s Abisko Ark Hotel has limited amenities – it’s a cluster of tiny huts on a frozen lake. But it does offer in-hut fishing and an excellent view.

Via BLDGBLOG. More. And. 

A 5-minute history of evil. (h/t, Coudal.) // Star Wars subtitles malfunction. “Dishevelled hair projection.” (h/t, Maggie’s Farm.) // Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. // Garfield minus Garfield. It gets quite strange. // The Einstein Archives. // The Large Hadron Collider. // The Stanford Linear Accelerator. // “That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.” // The silicon womb. // Cheeseburger in a can (mentioned here) finally gets a taste test. // Marijuana school. Higher education. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // A brief history of aviation. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) //Aurora Australis. // The power shirt. With nanogenerators. // Vivid Audio loudspeakers. These are rather fetching. // Cuddly Venereals™. // Barnacles and cocaine. // $2.6 million necklace. 1,290 diamonds. Only one ever made. // Circular communities. // Daniel Finkelstein on dictators and their groupies. // Caroline Fourest on Tariq Ramadan. “He is a professional when it comes to lying.” // Islam: What the West Needs to Know. September 11, 1683. // Tall buildings. // Even taller buildings. // Skyscraper made of wood. // Wind tunnels we have known and loved. // Kate Bush, Cloudbusting.       

Peter Callesen’s paper cuts. Each one made from a single sheet. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus.) // The Agbar Tower, Barcelona. More. // Zoudov. A Cold War thriller. (h/t, Coudal.) // 9 improbable weapons of war. Pigeons, rats, unspeakable lust. // Robo-fawn. // Robo-ferret. // Robot water strider. // Advanced prosthetic arm. // Deluxe finger painting. // Cutest. Thing. Ever. // A feline wake-up call. Scroll down. (h/t, Andy.) // Marvelous aquariums. (h/t, Things.) // The relative sizes of stars. Let it play. (h/t, Stephen Hicks.) // Methane detected on world 63 light years from Earth. // Is the Earth flat? A debate ensues. (h/t, Mick  Hartley.) // The People’s Quiz. Who said what. // Knowing what’s best for poor people. // Madsen Pirie on the pursuit of happiness. // Oliver Kamm on CND. // Fabian Tassano on Cornelia Parker’s politics-as-art. // Exploding flower arrangements. Frozen with liquid nitrogen, then shot. // Self-healing rubber. // Bubble gum drum machine. // Bubble gum alley. // Bubble gum sculptures. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the Ohio Express.

Alas, no post today. I’m busy reviewing this. However, rest assured I am thinking about you.

The robotic fly. // Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns. Air traffic density and flow. (h/t, Coudal.) // A map of the sky. // A panorama of London. // World’s largest wind turbine. Each blade measures 126 metres. (h/t, 1+1=3.) // Time-lapse Wii. // Self-tuning guitar. // Electronic pitch correction. Aka “the bitch shifter”. // Five neglected musical instruments. (h/t, Dark Roasted Blend.) // The Stribe. Looks better than it sounds. More. // Dickie Goodman’s sampladelica. (1961) // Wooden iBox. // Phone boxes. // The cell phone booth. // Heavy Everywhere catalogue. (pdf) More. // Octopus ornaments. // Snow walker. // Green politics, black shirt. // Andrew Bostom interview. On Islamic anti-Semitism and the teaching of contempt. // Robert Spencer on Juan Cole. // Norman Geras on the Lancet’s Richard Horton. // Callimachus on teaching “social justice”. (h/t, Maggie’s Farm.) // Iowahawk on Rowan Williams and the Tale of the Asse-Hatte. // 100 scary movie scenes. // Sunspot 10982. // “You have 10 seconds to reach minimum safe distance.” Prangs, bangs and auto-destruct. // And, via The Thin Man, Nichelle Nichols takes disco to a whole new level.

Sound essential, and preferably loud.

Via Centripetal Notion. Related. And.

Yes, I know it makes me a bad person, but I sometimes visit Monkey Fluids.   

I’m not proud of it, but it happens.