Bibliodyssey has a post full of beautiful covers from an old Sanborn Fire Insurance manual/booklet. The book that these were taken from helped give a detail and very specialized view of important maps specific to the fire insurance industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Just look at those letterforms! There’s a whole [...]
If you’re content with spending $28 for an iPhone sleeve/case, I highly suggest going with the Pocky type. So what if it doesn’t come with actual Pocky sticks, what’s held inside is probably just as good (but probably not as tasty!).
Allan Hardy and Unit Clothing put together this 7-minute documentary on Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham, one of the world’s premiere athletes in the BMX arena who just so happens to do all his tricks while in a wheelchair. Aaron was born with a spinal condition that left him paralyzed in his legs, but at an early [...]
AP Photo/NZPA, Denis Callesen The Atlantic’s In Focus blog is posting large images coming straight out of New Zealand after yesterday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake. While there are certainly many sad images of buildings crumbled, people hurt, and people deceased, one of the images that In Focus decided to post was this one above showing a large [...]
Talk about an exciting birthday! Mike Cooper of ElectricPig made his son a real-life playable Angry Birds birthday cake. It came with a slingshot, lots of poorly laid out cake pieces, and of course pigs and angry birds! Oh, and instructions on how to build your own too!
Somebody needs to make more of these to sell. [via]
