Cantatstic! The Dieline has a great post about vintage beer packaging, highlighting the work of  Lance Wilson and  Dan Becker who photographed an extensive collection of old beer cans — some with lovely detail and design and some with a very scary “Repo Man” minimalist vibe. Either way, I’m pretty sure the beer inside these [...]

Despite the horrific display, nearly two-thirds of those who were on board the Hindenburg survived its 1937 mishap. More Amazing Random Facts here.

Wrapper’s Delight: Making your horrible bus commute a little more bearable.

Fight! Smash! Win! Tom Morello + Boots Riley (The Coup) = Street Sweeper: www.streetsweepermusic.com

Watch Out! 104 Ways to Hilariously Ruin the Watchmen Movie [...]

Replacing World Landmarks With Cheap Souvenirs

Make every day a little more stunning with a quality photo.

Wow, here’s a very thorough list of Onion stories documenting a most baffling and enraging 8 years. To put it mildly.
Highlights:

June 20, 2001: Bush Trying To Decide How To Spend His Tax Refund
March 6, 2002: Bush Calls On Business Leaders To Create 500,000 Shitty Jobs By 2003.
September 11, 2002: Bush Won’t Stop Asking Cheney If [...]

The middle shot above reminded me of the latest Battlestar Galactica episode (poor radioactive Earth!). Many more intriguing photographs here:

Website: www.smashingmagazine.com

Enjoy looking at inspiring contemporary design? It sure is fun… until you have to go back home and stare at the crumbling plaster on the guest room wall in your 70-year-old non-contemporary home.

Website: www.contemporist.com

Many more creative billboards here: www.toxel.com

In a related billboarding news… looks like the web-based nerds who love to spoil movies have gotten off their fat asses and bought some spray paint. Good for them. Hope this trend takes off.

Sorry, must be a little punch drunk from the holiday bacchanalia because I find these photos above and this video below very entertaining:

Photos via @julieklausner, Video via @neatorama.

The average life span of a song on my Nano’s “Heavy Rotation” playlist is about a week, then I clean house and load up some more goodness. (Gotta keep my cardio-funk-tae-bo workouts fresh, am I right, ladies?) A few fantastic tunes did manage to avoid the old heave-ho due to their brilliance and I’d like [...]