Britain's Energy Future

Great read from the Economist FTA: "All this leaves Britain in a hole. The lights are dimming, but green targets are an argument against new coal plants, security-of-supply concerns make gas dicey, lack of time rules out nuclear, and worries about practicality dog renewables."

It's Why We Love Our Records

"Keeps me fit. I've been up and down all day changing records."

Mini Turns 50

Voted the second most influential car in history (after the Ford Model T) the design of the Mini allowed for eighty percent of its floor space to be used by passengers.

Seven Vices of Creative People

good fun read

Powell Peralta Sticker Set

I had at one time most of these Man, VCJ still hits me like a ton of bricks. So rad.

Paint Stick Doors

My good friend Pamela makes
these doors go visit her site and give them a look, they are more impressive in person. Killer!

7 Detroit Photographers

more great images of Detroit

Feral Houses

More on the disappearance of Detroit, killer pics from James Griffioen

600 Comic Con Costumes

kiss a half hour goodbye if you click this.....

TR2Nit

someone has already mashed TR2N with Beat It nice!

Dutchman Photos

some killer shots of custom bikes if you like bobbers and custom one offs this guys shoots some brilliant ones.

Ellie Frazetta R.I.P.

Ellie was the famed artist Frank Frazetta’s business partner and life companion. Frank Frazetta was the brilliant fantasy illustrator that not only has inspired me but countless others.

Jennifer Greenburg

some neat pics here, specifically on rockabillies

a God in an Alcove

a little Bauhaus on a Thursday afternoon

THAW!

I needed some Septic Death on a Weds afternoon

Mario Family Tree

you know, for reference

Steel Drum Band Covers Joy Division

so good

Wes Anderson interviewed about music he likes

and uses in his movies

5 Myths About Green Technology

Straight up! you gotta think about this people!

Rice Time

drawings? made in rice paddies

Feet First

Some great photography from Tom Robinson all of his sets are very nice, but I'm loving Feet First on a Tuesday morning.

Ghostbusters '59 Caddie for sale

wow! this is the real deal!!!!

there's only 4 hours left on the auction while I post!

Urban Mobility - PUMA

I just picked up a pair of Puma Madison EVO Lace L shoes and they are so awesome. Nothing beats a pair of new shoes, and I love me some Puma.

TILT

Saw a good documentary last night called "TILT" - pretty neat, talks about the challenges pinball - specifically Williams faced in the '90s and how they came to build "Revenge From Mars". If you were playing pins in the 90's this will click with you, spending a good deal of the 90's with a beer on the glass of my favorite pin - FIRE by Williams at the Lion's Lair with Boyd Rice spinning - this one hits home.

BECK

Beck takes on the Velvet Underground and Nico

9 Levels of Hell for the Living

This is dead-on.

Slayer digital press release

World Painted Blood

Hipsters and Skinny Jeans

I remember praying for the death of baggy jeans now we've swung too far the other way. Also, New York still sucks.

Lambretta beats a Ferrari in the 1/4 mile

so rad

Photographing Soap Bubbles

Killer set of bubble pics on Flickr

Tour Michael Jackson's Basement

wow he's got some crazy stuff - thanks for the link Chris!

One Step Beyond

So good on a summer day

Evan Hecox and ACE Hotel collaboration

Denver cultural hero and print maker - Evan Hecox collaborates with the ACE Hotel in Palm Springs. So rad.

Glastonbbury Pictures

killer pics from the Glastonbury 2009 with Blur, Springsteen, Neil Young, etc......

13 year old reviews a Walkman

My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.

He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.

When I saw it for the first time, its colour also struck me. Nowadays gadgets come in a rainbow of colours but this was only one shade - a bland grey.

You're Pushing Too Hard

RIP Sky Saxon

Wanna Pay More for Energy?

me neither! but the current group of idiots in charge wants us to pay more - This group of idiots is just as bad as the last administration. TERM LIMITS in the House and Senate NOW!!!!!

nobody plays like Andy Gill

One of my favorite guitar players of all time, Andy Gill

go big or go home

ride on

Dick Tracy

a TON of characters from Dick Tracy

a Boy and His Tuba

covering Devo's Girl U Want

Star Wars, Star Trek, The Matrix, and Harry Potter are Actually the Same Movie

I got a chuckle out of this

1957 Zenith Phantom Turntable

wow, just wow

disturning body mods

inflating parts of the body what thee bloody heck???

rebranding Pizza Hut

It needs to sink in but off the cuff, I do not like, I’ll have to look at it again next week

Hand Painted WWII Cavas Flight Patches

I love the bee on the hive and the bomb on bomb is classic!

R.I.P. Bob Bogle

The Ventures were formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle and their instrumental guitar work has had a profound effect on the development of rock and roll music. Their unique and distinctive sound helped popularize instrumental rock on Top-40 radio in the early sixties and were often referred to as “the band that launched a thousand bands.

Like Tears in the Rain

Attack Ships on Fire

Jimmy's Scooter

The Lambretta Li 150 Series 3 offered here is the actual machine ridden by Phil Daniels’ character, James 'Jimmy'' Cooper in the 1979 film, 'Quadrophenia', inspired by The Who’s double album of the same name. After filming finished, the 'Jimmy Bike' was sold to scooter dealers Rafferty Newman and put on display in the window of their shop in Portsmouth. It was subsequently purchased by Eddie Harris who then sold it on to Paul Marsh, both these owners being Portsmouth residents. So rad.

the Rumble

Asked for a tune that kids could dance "The Stroll" to, Link Wray came up with this powerfully menacing guitar instrumental on the spot, and the crowd went wild, demanding encores. When he couldn’t recreate the distorted sound of his live version in a studio, Wray poked holes in his amp speakers, cranked up the tremolo, and was then able to capture what he wanted in three takes -- for a cost of $57. Originally titled "Oddball," it was renamed after the gang fights in "West Side Story" by a record producer’s daughter. Wray’s primal guitar influenced a generation of rockers including Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, the Kinks, Jimmy Page and Neil Young. Bob Dylan called "Rumble" the "greatest instrumental ever." Pete Townshend said, "... if it hadn’t been for Link Wray and ‘Rumble,’ I would have never picked up a guitar."
RUMBLE

been out on vacation

but now I'm back. Phew. Here's some neat abandoned theaters.

Tweeting Too Hard

a grip of people taking themselves way too serious on Twitter, funny stuff

Whiskey

my brother Phil brought some Stranahans over the other day and we drank some so, so, so good

photos of abandoned pools

ah some of my favorite things.....

I'm not a RockBand fan

however, the animation for the new Beatles flavored RockBand is spot on!

self indulgent tripe

what? you have tattoos and like to wear black???? you're wild and crazy!!! trailer for "Goth Cruise"

top ten ingredients in fast food

good thing I don't put this crap in my body

related to the last

some unused posters for UP so cool.

Maybe the best movie I've ever seen

Pixar makes another fantastic movie

mmmmmmmmound

here's a blog I can dig or stack

Dai Vernon

cups and balls, the classic trick love this!

Abandoned NYC Subway Stations

soooooooooooo cool

cheesburger in a can

this is one of the grossest things I've ever seen

Scott Sternberg - rules of style

a couple of good zingers in here

fantastic review of the new Honda Insight Hybrid

my fave quote from the article "The nickel for the battery has to come from somewhere. Canada, usually. It has to be shipped to Japan, not on a sailing boat, I presume. And then it must be converted, not in a tree house, into a battery, and then that battery must be transported, not on an ox cart, to the Insight production plant in Suzuka. And then the finished car has to be shipped, not by Thor Heyerdahl, to Britain, where it can be transported, not by wind, to the home of a man with a beard who thinks he’s doing the world a favour."

WolframAlpha launches today

watch the video first if you haven't read about this monster yet wow!!!!!

designs of bicycle playing cards

these are so rad

you are what you eat

photos of people's fridges link taken from GOOD

trailer for "The Road"

just might be the only "must see" for me this summer

Life Mixtape

Mr. Burford makes a mixtape on his birthday every year of what he has been listening to over the past year preserved for is future children. Such a great idea!

parasitic wasps and the caterpillar

cool story, and a neat video too

Summer is here!

Summer is here!

Going to Hell - read this

count me in

fast food packed with salt!

do we need stories like this? I mean we all know it's true

8 bit Fatalities

more on realistic deaths of video game characters

Are We There Yet?

another beautiful graphic from those at GOOD, this one on transportation and timeframes

miocrowaving a cell phone

man, I love this crap!

Steve Albini overview

quick overview of Steve Albini and some of his work. Albini is an American hero.

SuperChunk on ABCNews

On the Mouth

10 Most Expensive Turntables

love the designs on these

the story of the awful Calvin peeing stickers

man I hate these it makes me want to hit their windows with a golf club. Link stolen from Coudal

crazy set of pics from the Michael Jackson auction

wow, there is some wild stuff in here

top list of great drum beats

It's funny New Order gets a nod - but man that beat is so iconic, how could you leave it out? but Ringo? c'mon....Ringo?!?!?

wanna see what it's like in North Korea

shot from China great pics as usual from Boston.com

Newt drops some facts against Gore propaganda

now, I know Newt is not my favorite person however, he drops some serious facts against the blatant lies that Gore fills the American public's head with. Gore will not be regarded by history as the hero he positions himself as.

Dirt Road to Psychedelia

Documentary on Austin Texas in the 1960s

8 drugged up rock star stories

nobody beats Iggy

frozen movie of cops fighting clowns

Carousel, directed by Adam Berg this is so rad!

More on record collecting

great article, that reminds me of me however I had my first cd player in '86, but I kept buying vinyl for a while, then I really only bought cds from about '89-'94 and then I flipped back to vinyl only.

Paintings from Luke Chueh

fantastic!

New pics from Cassini of Saturn

maybe the 2nd coolest planet in our system

Street Biking

well, it ain't skateboarding, but it's damn cool

thee Mighty Sabbath

I think I've posted this footage before but it NEVER gets old. Black Sabbath live in the year of my birth.

Out Here in the Fields

proof this footage works with any WHO song eh?

Chino Otsuka - double self portraits

she's putting her modern day self into old photos of herself as a kid love this!

John Madden

American hero, and my favorite sportscaster of all time - Retires

Danzig

to be on the next Rock of Love oh no!

we ain't that big yo

thinking you're hot shit today? Think again. I love this stuff.

SKID ROW

some footage from 1960 Minneapolis Minnesota cool old footage......