Sophie Blackall makes drawings from the Missed Connections section of Craigslist.

Not sure what you’ll get from it, but have a look.

via, gawker

Zelda. Dragon Warrior. Final Fantasy… Nintendo baby!

Anyway, read The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids over on The Awl. It’s good.

An in-depth look at baseball’s favorite gum.

Bureau of Trade: A site that digs deep to direct you towards off-beat things to buy

via, coolhunting

The polydactyl Somali pirate who’s been called “the modern day Long John Silver” was nabbed by the Royal Navy along with 13 others in the Indian Ocean.

More here

WorldStar Hip Hop gets profiled in NY Mag

Part of James Jarvis’ existential Spheric Dialogues

29 Ways to Stay Creative. There’s a lot of meme potential in this…

via, doobybrain

Allen Street had an ‘el’ train, and as late as 1992 there was a shantytown known as ‘the hill’ at the base of the Manhattan bridge… these Smart facts and more, here.

“He was one of our most important artists and he changed the way we see, what we think and maybe even what we hear. We’ve lost another one we couldn’t afford to lose.
Maybe the rapture has nothing to do with Jesus, maybe they’re beaming up the artists and intellectuals. So there goes a guy you can’t replace.”

Here, beginning at 3pm. You can read his original piece in the New Yorker here

original Lana del Rey photo via complex

Building.

via, juliasegal

This Roman Brothel Token from 1st century AD was found in England and  ”depicts a man and a woman having sex on one face, and has the Roman numerals XIIII (14) on the other. The lady appears to be lying on a couch on her front and a male figure is positioned behind her.”

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Donovan Strain did some hard research and deduced that January 20th, 1992 was in fact Ice Cube’s Good Day.

related: that flow-chart from 2007

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Henry Chalfant

This Week…

Fuzz Cat

We watched the Bones Brigade Trailer

VISIT PALESTINE

Newt = Schrute

and

Klara Wester was our Muse

A map documenting the ratio of Single Men to Single Women in New York City. Overall, NYC ’s population is 53% female and 47% male.

via, thehighdefinite

Snoop Dogg is a Party Legend