A Visual History of the Cigarette

lamarde has quite an impressive collection of vintage smoking related advertising.

In other strangely appealing aesthetic news, this image below sure reminds me of the early '90's. For similar images sans fig leafs check out Zillow Book for cash back at close.

BTW, for sweet anime wallpaper (somewhat NSFW) go here.

Vampirella Meets Carmina Burana (in comic book bondage)

Download the Orff mp3's and such at dadanoias.

P.S. I cannot sleep due to end-result of jury duty. While I respected all of the jurors and their opinions, etc. my general answer for all questions could be summed into Zero or No.

Aside: Is justice served by fatigue and cold soda....?

I Want a Nietzsche Family Circus Widget!

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Gotta love this ad too:
Life is pietzsche Shirt
A Shirt For Ironic Nihilists, Or Just Fans Of Friedrich Nietzsche


Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

UPDATE: Forgot to add source!

Yet another Breaking News Update!

I love the image at the left and it can be found with some NSFW material over at Zillow Book.

Something about the infinite reflection of mirrors has always intrigued me. When I was a kid I always wondered what it would be like to escape to the tiniest (last one I could see) reflection at the end.

Mapping on the Run, Kafka Tattoo and Database Art

It used to be that updated editions of world atlases mainly tracked the shifting of borders and changes in the names of cities and countries determined by politics, diplomacy or war.

The surface of the planet itself was a relatively constant template in the background. You could render it in more detail with, say, better satellite data, but the basics didn’t change much.

Now, though, the accelerating and intensifying impact of human activities is visibly altering the planet, requiring ever more frequent redrawing not only of political boundaries, but of the shape of Earth’s features themselves...

The Metamorphosis.

Database Art.

In other news, I enjoyed this favorite word thread.

Sweet Biofuel Options!

“I thought it was a plant for old ladies to make soap,” he said.

But now that a plant called jatropha is being hailed by scientists and policy makers as a potentially ideal source of biofuel, a plant that can grow in marginal soil or beside food crops, that does not require a lot of fertilizer and yields many times as much biofuel per acre planted as corn and many other potential biofuels. By planting a row of jatropha for every seven rows of regular crops, Mr. Banani could double his income on the field in the first year and lose none of his usual yield from his field.

BTW, this is my favorite Velvet Underground song....

Strange Architecture, Books, Maps, Wyoming, etc.

The image above reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright and his aesthetically pleasing, but problematic buildings (on the utilitarian front).

I love this BibliOdyssey blog, though - and this post in particular reminds me of an intriguing old map/book/art store in Wyoming that disappeared a month later...

Mass Deaths of Bees...

Thoughts...



Interesting BibioOdyssey post: Stark Masonic Theosophy