From the category archives:

cabinet of curiosities

Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Every Dead Thing

November 18, 2009

the third-world skull I want for my cabinet of curiosities

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This Is An X-Ray Of A Pregnant Dog

November 10, 2009

It’s kinda blowing my mind right now. more x-rays of pregnant dogs

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Blue Lobster

November 9, 2009

I found a very blue lobster claw on the beach in Maine. Pretty! Courtney looked it up and as I live and breathe there is such a thing that lives and breathes. One in two to four million lobsters is blue, depending on which source you consult. That got us purty excited. It’s a genetic [...]

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ulexite for the easily amused

October 31, 2009

I picked up a couple of fancy little rocks at a Mineral store in Seattle. This one pictured below, Ulexite, is a.k.a. TV Rock. You can get an idea from the picture why they call it that: it transmits images. The rock is made up of bundled fibers which act as fiber optics, reflecting light [...]

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