It’s a fur feeder. Fill it with Fido’s and Fluffy’s cast-off coats and give it to the birds to line their nests with. [Found here.]
Category: Gift Ideas
Name us. NAME US.
[h/t Sol R. Land]
I need this.
It records the hours of bright sunshine by burning a hole through a card.
The Campbell-Stokes Recorder (sometimes called a Stokes sphere) is a type of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and modified in 1879 by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The original design by Campbell consisted of a glass sphere set into a wooden bowl with the sun burning a trace on the bowl. Stokes’s refinement was to make the housing out of metal and to have a card holder set behind the sphere.
Picnic Bear has seen some shit.
[Found here, h/t Pam M.]
90 Minute Floater
Oscar and The Truth Toad
Oscar and the Truth Toad, Travis Louie.
[Prints available here.]
Ombrophilous Hot Links
You Sure Can’t Do, Buddy Guy (1958)
An homage to Guitar Slim‘s The Things That I Used to Do.
Band lineup:
Buddy Guy – Guitar and Vocals
Ike Turner – Guitar
Willie Dixon – Bass
Odie Payne – Drums
Harold Burrage – Piano
Carlson Oliver – Tenor Sax
Eddie Jones – Tenor Sax
Jackie Brenston – Baritone Sax
Pops Coffee on the Four Leaf.
Beetle wing embroidery (tutorial).
Signs found on Google Street View.
Rationing of food, petrol, etc., ended in Britain nine years after the end of WWII. [h.t Possum]
A 23 year old auditioned for the Monkees on 7 October 1965. R.I.P. Michael Nesmith.
[Top image: I wasn’t shopping for socks but I found those here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago.
Decisions.
[Found here.]
I’m pretty sure I need these.
[Found in here.]
Brilliant.
I had a TV just like that. It stopped working when a raw egg somehow got into the rear vent over the CRT and fried it.
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 