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[chartcandy] - Death and Taxes

[news] - "US officials talking about a 'Salvador Option' in Iraq", won't somebody please stop the madness? also lots of depressing news about gonzales, and how you can stop him (americans), at lisareins over the last few weeks.

[games] - Someone keeps stealing my letters...

[sleep] - Hayat Benchenaa's hanging radio alarm clock

[art] - trees wrapped in straw for the winter in Kasumigaseki (via)

[toys] - Hiëronymus Bosch action figures

[art] - frozen fountain one two three more

[art] - Sarah Sze's stupendous short series of stunning silly sculptures (so sorry).

[art] - robot sculptures by alex andromeda

[art] - paintings by Jan Voss

[music] - fabulous ambient shenanigans from members of the boredoms and cibo matto. Yoshimi and Yuka: Flower With No Color (especially for fans of susumu yokota and takagi masakatsu). also Pitchfork redesigned.

[cats] - catnip: "... But if they have the gene, felines of all sizes love catnip – from housecats to tigers and cheetahs and pumas. Worldwise made a giant cat scratcher about the size of a twin bed impregnated with catnip for the mountain lion at the Folsom Zoo in Folsom, California. An animal sanctuary in Florida is using our SmartyKat BubbleNip to help injured panthers heal." (others say tigers dont react)

[meta] - fresh set of bookmarks up, linked on the exit page. i keep the first tier open for browsing/adding ease. (sidebar pops out automatically using the mozilla optimoz tweaks extension)

[comics] - I Like Girls

[art] - The Return Policy Project, a geek version of the cacophony Cement Cuddlers

[fonts] - Essential Fonts For Designers | 300 Free Truetype Fonts You Should Have

[art] - 2 pages of Michael Parkes

[art] - seedpods, jellies and Plankton Art - by Louise Hibbert & Sarah Parker-Eaton

[proclaim] - I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs. nicely supplemented by the Edge Annual Question, "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" (snippets and comments at kottke.org)

[japanese architecture] - miru-kenchiku

[art] - paintings at skeletonart: MARS-1, Blaine Fontana, Van Arno, Rik Catlow, Kathie Olivas, Brandt Peters, Patrick Williams, Kevin Peterson

[art] - Dunny Show, kid robot bunny sculpts.

[music] - [ Low Morale: Radiohead - creep (acoustic) ] animation put to the recording. f11 to fullscreen, turn speakers up.