Death of Form
This also explains how we went from soul, jazz, country, and blues to "jam bands"

Opacity.us is a great guide to urban ruins and abandoned locations.

[Quote of the day (hell... possibly the year)]
Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.

Jerry Byrd and Marty Robbins on steel and rhythm. Nice story on origin of the steel at beginning.

ArtRage - a cheap ($25 for full edition)/free alternative to Painter

I need several thousand of these links

Index of British Pub Toilets (via the venerable Bifurcated Rivets)

Roast coffee in a popcorn popper

Some unreal shadow puppets.

Gene Sequence - all in a single interactive poster

Gallery of old-time paper moon photos (flickr, courtesy of drawn)

Liberal, Conservative brains different
(conservative brains were detected?)

Rock and Roll: The early days (google video, 58 mins)

The Dark Side of the West: 17 Truly Grim Westerns (avclub)

Philosophy/Vertigo (popmatters)

A bizarre Victorian collection of whale illustrations from bibliodyssey. why the hell not?

Gallery of Book Labels

Model Railroad slums

Good NYTimes article on Rick Rubin's bid to rebuild Columbia records

Masons, EndTimes, and FreeMasons converge at the Denver International Airport
(via metafilter)

Weidner explains that some high-level factions in Masonic society may be using the murals to alert the general population to the earth-shattering political and environmental changes in store for 2012. Either that, or those factions are amazingly arrogant. Because for Weidner and other conspiracy experts, the symbolism is as explicit as a manifesto.