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Friday Ephemera

Will no-one help Professor Brian Cox? // 15,000 Volts. // Ladies, now you can charge your phone with your clutch-bag. // I can see your heartbeat. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // A happening beat combo. (h/t, EBD) // “I’ve been working on this for months.” (h/t, Julia) // Magnifying the Universe. // Man make fire. // This young man is just showing off. // Unfortunate magazine cover. // Dining table of note. (h/t, AC1) // Old New York. // Far left fashion. (h/t, TDK) // Fluid dynamics. // A vortex tied in knots. // How Google works. // Which House of Cards is better? // Drift. // An actual 3D desktop. // Two lips, one camera and one trombone. 

Friday Ephemera

The 28 state-sanctioned hairstyles of North Korea. (h/t, Samizdata) // Napkins of note. // Armband device controller. // Giant ice lollies as temporary art. // Chocolate lamp. // Gold boom Australia, 1872. (h/t, MeFi) // Brighton teenagers “live at a faster pace,” use words “gracious” and “fellow,” 1960. (h/t, Paul Saxton) // Vertical garden. // Cockatoos and budgerigars. // Octopus fornication. // Communist opera. // For calibrating spy cameras. (h/t, Metrolander) // Manhattan wasn’t actually invaded by aliens. // The modern oil wheel. // I assume this is performance art. It involves bananas and Nutella. (h/t, Simen) // Assorted Nazi bunkers. // Tardis fez with built-in light. // The motorized wheelrider. // I so want this car and of course a time machine. // “High school fashions, 1969.” // Suitcases of insane asylum patients. // Unforeseen consequences. 

Friday Ephemera

Small sandy frog makes big high noise. // Daniel Mercadante’s Yawns. // “You had one job to do...” (h/t, Paul Saxton) // Sea pigs. // Assorted landscapes. (h/t, Coudal) // Unused scenes of Alien. // The Sun is moving. // Sculpted cheese. // Some chocolate bees. // “A bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod.” // A bit random, I know. // The old subways of LA. // Just don’t call them savages. // Apollo 15 map and image library. // “How many films can you name?” // Turntable of note. // The stations of Stockholm. // A tent to be suspended. // “Every man’s semen is a precious snowflake.” // Well, I have to say, that’s not at all what I expected. 

Friday Ephemera

Abandoned hotel, Bogotá River, Colombia. One of these. (h/t, Ace) // Nature, moving. // Shattered glass animals. // Narrow house. // Clearing snow. // Making sounds for porn. // Cinephilia and beyond. // Gif search engine. // Your very own pulp magazine cover generator. (h/t, Peter) // Les Rockets: Last Space Train. (h/t, Simen) // Red Kenyan elephants. // “Is this [asteroid] an effect of global warming?” // Cold storage in Chicago. (h/t, MeFi) // Hydrophobic coating. // Kalahari Weaver Birds. // WebCamMesh. // And further to this, behold The Hammer, “a test-your-strength game” that’s also “a muscle-controlled light-up dildo.” 

Friday Ephemera

Iron Man 3. // Filming in infra-red. // Tulip fields, from above. // Abusing Sellotape. // Volkswagen van of note. // Vintage one-wheeled motorcycle. // “Designed to drop from the sky and land prepared for action, the Paratrooper folding bike can tackle any terrain.” // Jeremy Clarkson drives a very small car. // Does your mobile Antarctic research station look like this? // Twelve peculiar cameras. // “Dad, can we have some bat pups?” // Pure White Paper. // Cardboard creations. // How to tie your shoelaces. Because it seems you’re doing it all wrong. // Facebook pranking. // And via MeFi... Things fitting perfectly into other things. 

Not Much Tweeting in Antarctica

A partial snapshot of Twitter in real time. 

Friday Ephemera

Why dogs don’t rule the Earth. // Dubai down below. // Bridging the generation gap with Black Ops 2. // Weird vintage. // Menswear dog. // Can you find Momo? (h/t. MeFi) // Add milk for Scottie pinwheel. // Notable pencil sharpener. // Step-by-step instructions for octopizza pie. // Hey, it’s Elvis and Priscilla relaxing at home. // Hitler’s toilet found at last. // Fighting communism with jazz. // Miles Davis, live in Sweden and Germany, 1967. // The searchable Calvin and Hobbes. // Woob: Have Landed. // E.T.A. // An advert for beer. // “Even in the dark you cannot put it on the wrong way.” // And The Lovers present La Degustation. 

Friday Ephemera

“The Vaportini provides a revolutionary way of consuming alcohol. It is inhaled rather than swallowed.” // The sky is angry. // London below you. // Augmented reality contact lenses. // Pitch-shifted REM made upbeat, almost jolly. // John’s weather forecasting stone. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, slowed down somewhat. // At last, marzipan elephants. // Key meets lock. // Reef dwellers. // Dog walks horse with limited success. // A surface that’s difficult to wet. // “We’ve got company.” // The internet movie cars database. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) // And via MeFi, this building was on fire and, er, now it’s frozen. 

Kodachrome

Fremont Street, Las Vegas, circa 1958. Photographed by Woodrow Humphries. Larger version here.  

Friday Ephemera

At last, sweaters made from the dog wool. // Dogs use Skype. // A real-time map of the London Underground. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // A guide to dim sum. // Spider + worm = spiderworm. // Designer heels. // How to clip your fingernails in space. // There are howling, carnivorous mice. // How to dance like James Brown. // Dollhouse of note. // Deafen your friends. // Floor plans of fictional apartments. // Impressive frozen dung sculpture. // Cold brew coffee. // This is one of these. (h/t, MeFi) // Pac-Man plus physics. // “Need 2 or 3 women for Star Trek roleplaying. No nudity, no touching. Strictly TNG era. Nothing weird is going to happen.”