Artist Nadine Jarvis can fabricate pencils from carbon left over by incinerating human remains -- it's part of a larger "research project into post mortem." She notes that "240 pencils can be made from an average body…

I would get this in a heartbeat if it weren't for the fact that my once-beefy arms have shriveled into sad little twigs:

I have posted several times here about the hideous crimes committed by architects against humanity. But this, oh this makes up for all of it. Architecture, all is forgiven; let us never speak of it again. We shall eve…

Google's new "themes" feature pleases me.

A hilarious look into the minds of children. The College Kids part is particularly amusing. (From Buddha's beloved New Yorker)(fixed)

Moscow, not the way it was, but the way it should have been. (From BoingBoing)

"East or West, it matters not where--the story may, doubtless, indicate something of the latitude and longitude as it proceeds--in the city of Mishaumok, lived Henderson Gartney, Esq., one of those American gentlemen…

The first edition of Steampunk Magazine is available for free download. All you anachronistic Victorians, check it out!