Found this this artist (Guido Daniel) this morning: Check out the website for a ton of amazing photos. There are so many great ones.
Made these this morning – I love lemon blueberry anything. This recipe makes ridiculously soft muffins with sharp bursts of blueberry flavour. They have a light sweetness but they’re not ...
Giant whale in Forest Adrián Villar Rojas, an artist, created this haunting life-sized whale out of clay, laid out in the middle of the forest with hints of stumps emerging from its skin. Can you ima...
Does anyone one else have the smelly towel issue? And if so (or even better, if not!), how do you combat it? The problem is this: A lot of our towels smell like somebody’s early morning garbage...
SASS and Compass If you’re not on this bandwagon, GET ON IT. Susy Responsive grids for compass. Font Awesome Such an amazing resource. Smooth, beautiful scaling! Premium Pixels I especially lik...
Just in case everyone forgot about how neurotic I am, here is a reminder. Mad cow disease Sudden heart failure Suddenly developing an allergy, especially an allergy to something I really like, like d...
When hotel cleaner ‘Harry Leon Crawford’ was arrested and charged with wife murder, he was revealed to be in fact Eugeni Falleni, a woman and mother, who had been passing as a man since 1899. In 1914...
The Sweating Sickness Sweating sickness, also known as “English sweating sickness” or “English sweate” (Latin: sudor anglicus), was a mysterious and highly virulent disease th...
I’m not sure if this is getting any global kind of coverage, although I think it has the potential to go viral. A local Victoria resident took some photos of a giant pacific octopus grabbing a ...
The era of the car is over, thank god. Say hello to our new 2008 Yaris RS
Because these photos don’t truly illustrate his size, here is a photo of an anatoalian shepherd standing next to a man. They are huge.
This guy draws disney characters as their ‘real life’ versions These are so amazing. He also has some very impressive photo manipulation skills. I’m jealous. The Voynich Manuscript ...
I bought my sister a book for her birthday called The art of painting animals on rocks. This is her first creation.
Spent a bit of time this weekend converting this PSD into code. At the moment it’s only about 50% done, but I thought I’d post it now because I am extremely lazy busy and I doubt I’...
Ben got a tattoo on Thursday and I don’t have much to write about so here’s a photo of it to keep things rolling around here. And since we’re on the subject, here’s a picture ...
Eastside Stories: Diary of a Vancouver Beat Cop Reading about a cop’s experiences in Downtown Eastside, Canada’s poorest postal code, is interesting. He tells stories about the people who...
Took this video while I was out running. It was nice out and the sun was starting to set and I just felt like recording it. It’s not actually worth posting online probably – it’s pr...
Bees Self-Medicate To Fight Off Fungus I love bees, and it’s always to depressing to read about how they’re mysteriously dying off. So it’s nice to read something a little more opti...
My mom wrote up a description of the steps she took while distressing that cabinet she gave me, complete with in-progress pics. For those of you who are crafty, here it is for your enjoyment! There a...
For my birthday (even though my birthday was actually over a month ago, this just got delivered yesterday), my mom did something pretty amazing. She bought a used cabinet online and transformed it fr...
If you end up reading any of these (or if you already have!) let me know. I’m curious what you think! The Book of Negroes I read this book in two days and it was totally awesome. I love stories...
I love the huge roar of applause when Schultz makes his initial comment in reply to NOM. I think any decision of this type and magnitude has to be made with great thoughtfulness, and I would assure y...
(Rose’s secret talent: Using the smudge tool in Photoshop as a weak attempt to hide the fact that Ben is in his boxers.) Also, how much do you love my cutlery? I bought them several years ago w...
What happens when a 35 year old man retakes the sat? Yes, I absolutely stole this from kottke. Jason is the master of finding cool links. What makes this article awesome is not the topic, but the wri...
I am so so bad about emails. So bad. Same with facebook messages. I don’t know why really. This guy messaged me a week ago asking for advice on breaking into the web world, and I forced myself ...
I had a dream last night that I had to make chewy lemon cookies. I think the dream was brought on because I’ve been oogling this recipe for weeks, but the instructions and ingredients are so co...
Saw Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol in IMAX last night. I resisted seeing it when it first came out because – shmeh – cash in on action movie franchise, boring boring. But it go...
I’m a little embarassed to post this extreme close-up of my mousy little face, but I got a good hair cut and I might as well immortalize it with a before and after photo, right? I’m so ha...
Life affirming moment: Going to make yourself a mug of hot water at work and finding a collection of these mugs staring at you.
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