Archive for 2008

This is pretty close to what I could call a dream house.

This shot of Steve McQueen in his XK-​​SS Jag is some­thing you just don’t see these days any­more. Given the Le Mans back­ground of that car, it’d be today’s equiv­a­lent of, say, Brad Pitt dri­ving around in on of these.

Bless those Life Google Archives.

Tina Fey has a pin­ball past

*sweet*

LCD Soundsystem’s New York I love you, with a lit­tle help from Ker­mit. Heh.

“Aqua Alta Surfing”

A Dutch nut­case takes advan­tage of one of the high­est tides in the last twenty years in Venice to wake­board through flooded Piazza de San Marco to tourist applause.

Related.

we are sleep­ing giants. Amaz­ing photography.

I feel for Vixie and the other DNS gang. They’ve just been told to rebuild the entire US High­way Sys­tem, with­out clos­ing a sin­gle lane at any time.

Oh shit, I just broke the Inter­net | MetaFil­ter.

I think I’ve men­tioned before how good Jeff Bridges is with his Widelux, but just in case here’s fur­ther proof: The mak­ing of Iron Man

One of the win­ning images from Lomo­grafia Portugal’s hol­i­day contest

Some were pretty ques­tion­able, but…

Hel­ve­tireader

My new way of look­ing at Google Reader.