now reading: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Three recent game obsessions: GemCraft, Bubble Tanks 2, Cave Story

An impressive, but much less engrossing game: Defender of the Favicon.

Nutraloaf - it's unconstitutionally bad!

The Big Picture is a recent addition to my daily reading. The Large Hadron Collider and Olympics Opening Ceremony galleries were especially jaw-dropping.

Another gripping New Yorker article about The Chameleon. Mark my words, this will be a movie someday.

ImportGenius grants easy access to information about the contents of every shipping container that enters the U.S. The feed at the bottom or their homepage is unexpectedly mesmerizing. Like the live feed of search queries at Google HQ (or Hot Trends), this feels like plugging into a larger collective consciousness.

Clever Jeep ad. Like indexed with pictures.

Nice gallery of unique hotel rooms.

Crossing the world on rails. Until I strike it rich, I have no choice but to live out my extravagent travel fantasies vicariously.

The weird science of stock photography. Every industry is fascinating when explained well. How It's Made really capitalizes on this. Whenever I catch that show while channel surfing, I'm instantly paralyzed until it ends.

The "waters" of the moon have the coolest names. I almost wish they'd been used on something closer to home so we could actually use them more than once a lifetime.

Joyce McKinny had her dog cloned. As a result of the subsequent publicity, she was recognized as the suspect in a 1970's British sex abduction case. The story took another turn for the strange when she was accused of having a boy commit a burglary to fund a wooden leg for her horse. It's probably best not to think to much about this.

Nobody does packaging like Japan (one two three). I have honestly purchased apples that came individually wrapped in a wrapped box in a bag in another bag.

Japan is probably also unmatched in its use of tetrapods. For some reason, I'm just longing to see ultra-slow-motion video of 1,000 of these things dropping from a plane.

Clingstone. Houses with names are so cool.

"Here's a true story about how awesome Pixar is."