Humans kill more deer, antelope, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, bobcats and coyotes, among others, than any other cause, including predation, starvation, weather, disease and natural causes including age, accident or developmental defects.

What’s more, humans kill more large mammals in North America than all other causes put together.

The Possibilian (NewYorker)
Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction, he says. They imply that time ticks steadily, predictably forward, when our experience shows that it often does the opposite: it stretches and compresses, skips a beat and doubles back.
The brain is a remarkably capable chronometer for most purposes. It can track seconds, minutes, days, and weeks, set off alarms in the morning, at bedtime, on birthdays and anniversaries. Timing is so essential to our survival that it may be the most finely tuned of our senses. In lab tests, people can distinguish between sounds as little as five milliseconds apart, and our involuntary timing is even quicker. If you’re hiking through a jungle and a tiger growls in the underbrush, your brain will instantly home in on the sound by comparing when it reached each of your ears, and triangulating between the three points. The difference can be as little as nine-millionths of a second.

Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco That Took 35 Years to Create

Scott Weaver's Rolling through the Bay from Learning Studio on Vimeo.
(vimeo, via thoughtcatalog)

The Management Myth (the Atlantic)

I am the coin.  A strange puzzle.

The Real Housewives of Wall Street:  Rolling Stone investigates the $220M government bailout of two Morgan-Stanley exec's wives.

"There's a true schizophrenia where if you say to voters, you know, do
you think the federal government spends too much money and they should
spend less, they say yeah, absolutely.  Then you name specific things,
like Pell grants for students and they say, no, not that.  How 'bout
NIH, medical research funding?  Nah, you really shouldn't cut that.
And pretty soon you've proved that what the American public is against
is arithmetic."
       -- Bill Gates, March 10, 2011

The Ramones: 26 songs in 54 minutes
Hear a monumental concert from one of America's best bands in their prime. The Ramones live at New York City's Palladium, January 7, 1978. 26 songs in 54 minutes all set to a series of cheap sci-fi movie trailers. What could be better?

An excellent series of 'oral history of music' videos on empsfm.org
Here's Chris Squire of Yes talking about the time he first met a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix.

All the Buildings in New York
"An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock"

Screw Portraits

Life Expectancy, Sunshine, and Happiness

Stop motion picture of a tangerine being painted, and peeled, etcetera.

Every once in a while, Wall Street's mask slips off, if only for a second.
Here, vile, subhuman Wall Street filth celebrate the fact that the "human toll is greater than the economic toll" of the Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (youtube)

There's nothing like a public display of rotten-to-the-core, greed-devolved people revealing the depths of their depravity.

Linn Drum Machine creator Roger Linn demos his new Linnstrument prototype.

"They get paid money to put scores on paper, not to put the right scores on papers," he says. "They have a bottom line. Why anyone would expect anything else is beyond me."

Inside the multimillion-dollar essay-scoring business: An illuminating NYTimes article on the farce that is the Standardized Test industry

Valparaiso Downhill:  Positively the most crazy bike race footage I have ever seen on the internets. (vimeo)

The laws of the Cayman Islands are not designed for the benefit of the 50,000-odd population of the Cayman Islands. They are designed for people who live in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and so on. Hence the term ‘elsewhere’, or ‘offshore’, is fundamental to what a tax haven is. Essentially, then, tax havens are about wealthy individuals and corporations taking their money elsewhere to do things that they wouldn’t be allowed to do at home. 

The Men Who Stole the World:  The New Left Project on Tax Havens.

Hundreds of tourist pictures woven into single composites of famous sites.

Happy 60th, Fender Telecaster