Lila Prime

The eye/face expression seems... unimpressed. As if to say, "really? this is all you want me to do? sit on your lawn?" This p...

Forgive the poor lighting conditions, I snuck this photo in a darkened airplane. My neighbor had a delight-inducing sticker on the back of h...

My desk already had fun math puzzles, as decoration and to occupy my hands and mind while I spin my brain-wheels on research problems. To ...

An interesting and high-concept, fancy exhibit of video game art included swooping drops of tone down to doodles on the wall, including sev...

Binti is an excellent novella by Nnedi Okorafor . Her previous fiction was vicious, and incisive, and demanding, and exhilarating; in this ...

One month of Saturdays spent, and --- lo! --- a large collection of worn and stained green shirts (plus one old spherical pillow) is transf...

The 2011 National Geographic Photography Contest winners are posted. Although it only got honorable mention, Angel Fitor's "Sunri...

You may recall this lovely dearie who joined my household in October. Well, I asked for the pattern and then learned to knit. And -- lo! --...

Merry Christmas! I hope you are enjoying a vacation day, wherever you are, in whatever way you most prefer. Even cultural institutions as i...

I received a postcard from penpal M. featuring a giant squid puppet, seen here at an incomplete stage: It was built by Les Machines de l...

On my desk this afternoon, I found: The note reads (in an unsteady hand), Greetings from under the sea! I am not too good at writing I hear...

The "land octopus" is historically used on maps to emphasize evil imperialism ... or is it communism? See for yourself. (HT: Me...

I'm reading my way through Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow , a book so substantial that merely "reading" it does not conve...

Although the oil leak is apparently capped , oil will be washing ashore for some time to come. I came across this lovely print: (Via Fuck Y...