Thomas Jefferson's recipe for vanilla ice cream

Waiting for the End of the World

An incredible photography book featuring images of bomb shelters. Eerie. One of them actually contained a jail and operating room.

Tristin Lowe

Giant felt whale inspired by Moby Dick. Can be unzipped, packed together, and transported easily, barnacles and all. Via Supernaturale.

Edward Gorey's house

Life in Las Vegas storm-sewers

Also via Boing Boing.

An extra in your own life

Miranda July photographed herself as extras in scenes from six movies - including The Outsiders.

Nabokov's notes on Kafka

Via BoingBoing. Pretty cool. I also just bought Nabakov's lectures on literature.

What a dog!

Someone Shane knows posted this photo on Facebook. I love it so much. It's at a counter demonstration against the awful "God hates fags" people.

Huckleberry Finn

"I went up to my room with a piece of candle and put it on the table. Then I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn’t no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars was shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me."

Mark Twain

Three places I used to go