Now THIS is what I call a proper voyage.

If only I was rich, I'd book this and would finally have a reason to buy a steamer trunk...


Your epic adventure begins in the northernmost capital of Europe, Reykjavik. From Iceland you will cruise the waters of the Arctic, Atlantic, Caribbean, Pacific, and South Pole, before completing your journey in Ushuaia, the port capital of Tierra del Fuego, in Argentina. Along the way, you will call at some of the most fascinating and picturesque ports in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, and make a passage through the Panama Canal! You will see Nova Scotia and New England at the peak of their autumn foliage, cruise the sublime Chilean fjords in spring weather, and luxuriate for several weeks in sunny weather as you sail through the captivating tropics. By the end of the trip, you will have traveled the world from pole to pole.

For 67 wonderful days travel to 4 continents, visit 17 countries and explore 44 ports!

Viking River Cruises Landing Page

The 80s Tarot.

Aww. They even got Howard Jones in there. Bless.




the eighties tarot

(Sorry, I lost the trail on this one...)

Yay for Exploding Dog.

There's no mistaking his work. For a good cause, too -- recycling your old hardware and cell phones. Nice site.



G4 - gcycle

p.s. It just occurred to me that Exploding Dog might be a woman. With a name like Sam, could be...

"sweet sweet coffee" t-shirt.

So, so true.


sweet sweet coffee

(via �Cosmo Crafts)

Wake up to a hot cuppa... David Lynch?

Disturbing and organic.



DavidLynch.com :: Store

(via smartsandcrafts.com)

Manifest clocks.

Kinda fun.




manifest explanation

(via If You See Something, Say Something)

Nrrrrrrgh.

A delightful image that reminds me a lot of my cat, Oskar, waking me up each morning, just in case I forgot that he needs breakfast.

Foto Life: Manatee

(via b3ta.com)

The Difficult Client.

This and more wonderful work at Bearskinrug.

This makes me giggle.

I laughed when I got it and I laughed again when I just ran across it while cleaning out my email.

BB Math: Two laughs = 1 blog post.

(via, what else?, Cute Overload)

FlickrBlockrs.

FlickrBlockrs: Say NO To Online Photos

(via the we make money not art newsletter)

The Paper Crane Project.

The lovely Eshu over at abstract the day has undertaken a task of mythical proportions -- making 1000 cranes and sending them out into the world, asking only that people send her a print of the crane in its new environs.

The girl is fab. Check out her flickr pool for all the pictures so far. (Including mine. I wanted to send her the above, but it's too wide for flickr.)

Flickr: the paper crane project

No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford.

I love Brandon Bird.


Fine Art Prints and T-Shirts from BrandonBird.com

Meteor shower this weekend.

The Lyrids meteor shower will peak this weekend on April 22nd, though some may be seen now through the 24th. The Lyrids are caused by debris left by comet Thatcher, a comet that visits the inner Solar System every 450 years or so. Its last visit to the inner Solar System was in 1861. [...]

While in most years the hourly rate for the Lyrids is between 10 and 20 meteors per hour, very occasionally the Lyrids will offer us a special treat and reward us will hourly rates as high as 100 per hour and even more during a shorter period at the peak. The last time this occurred was in 1982.

To observe this shower, go outside and look generally toward the your darkest, most unobstructed portion of the sky. While the radiant of this shower is in the constellation of Lyra, rising in the northeast, Lyrids can, and will appear, anywhere in your sky. If it's clear, simply go outside and look up. Try not to miss the Lyrids.

MeteorShowers : Message: Meteor shower this weekend! The Lyrids

MOO love.

Linkbunnies has the best description:

Moo's NoteCards. Like postcards. But standy-uppy. And flickr is involved.




Make your own.

MOO | NoteCards - stand and deliver

Posted without comment.

Barry Manilow Official Merchandise Store

Cha cha cha.

Design 3000 - shop of ideas

Red capes and goggles.

(Click image for larger version.)

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language

Chocolate and reading.

More swished-together goodness. And gorgeous packaging to boot. Mmmmmmmmmm.


Alice Pleasance Liddell, the original Alice in Wonderland (who inspired Lewis Carrol to write the book), and Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein’s life companion) and chef-extraordinaire Alice Waters are among the spunky Alices that inspired the name because they are people who “enrich the day through their imagination, refinement and enchantment.”

I hope they get an online store together pronto.

thecoolhunter.net - Alice in Wonderland Chocolate

I'm talking to you. Yes, you.

Lovely readers -- Have you been to Baltimore? Do you live in Baltimore? If so, could you step over here for just a sec?


The monk and I are heading out to Baltimore this weekend, and I'm looking for some fab, interesting and/or design-y sorta places to go. I'd be ever-so-grateful for some suggestions.

p.s. We're taking a day trip into D.C. as well, so any suggestions about D.C. would be ace, too.

(Map courtesy of Lonely Planet)

Go on. Hug a tree.

Interesting article about the monetary value of trees in the city.

New York Magazine | How Much Is a Street Tree Really Worth?

Email philosophy.

Ms. L.P., the BFF, sent this to me today. Both of us hate cheesy forwarded-forever kinds of emails, but she sent it along because there some interesting points in this one. Kind of nice.

There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.

At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

Every night, someone thinks about you before they go to sleep.

Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.

When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

If you want to read the whole thing you can find it here.

The Geek Culture Forums: Tequila and Salt.....

Midwest Airlines: Save the Cookie.

Please sign Midwest Airline's "Save the Cookie" petition to keep Airtran from taking over our favorite Midwest airline.


I actually don't care about the cookies, but I can't buy a nice, big, comfy airline seat at my local grocery store. Midwest is the only really nice economy-class airline out there. If it goes, we're all screwed.

savethecookie.com

(Thanks for the image, Timmy! And thanks to my HD co-workers for the heads up.)

A perfect combination.

The children's classic *with* plush monkeys?? Excellent.


Caps For Sale - Plush Monkey & Book Set

The lion tamer stool.

Until now, I don't know that I've ever felt completely ambivalent about a piece of furniture, then fallen in love with it because of its description in a newsletter. Lock your eyes on the thorsten van elten copy for this bad boy:



Van Amburgh, the Brute Tamer of Pompeii (or the new stool designed by Sam Johnson). We love to amaze you with some trivia, especially when it’s got something to do with our products). Apparently the first man to put his head in a lion’s mouth, one Isaac van Amburgh, arrived in England from America in 1839. Queen Victoria was a big fan, and if he‘s good enough for her, he’s good enough for us. Dedicated to him, this rotation moulded stool was inspired by the lion tamers podium.

thorsten van elten :: van Amburgh

Adventures of Lego Spacemen

SO cute.



Joe Braun Photography - Lego Spacemen

(Yay, Smidigt!)

Weirdest headline I've seen in awhile.

Women may be able to grow own sperm

Billy Collins : Action Poetry

I'm a big fan of Billy Collins, so this site blows me away. Wow.


------ billy collins--action poetry ------

(via Chris Glass. Dude. You rock. This is SO good.)

Paraskavedekatriaphobia.

I just found out that's what a fear of Friday the 13th is called.



From Wikipedia:
History of Friday the 13th

Before the 20th century, although there is evidence that the number 13 was considered unlucky, and Friday was considered unlucky, there was no link between them. The first documented mention of a "Friday the 13th" is generally listed as occurring in the early 1900s.

The Last Supper, with stories that Judas was the thirteenth guest, and that the Crucifixion of Jesus occurred Friday.

That the biblical Eve offered the fruit to Adam on a Friday, and that the slaying of Abel happened on a Friday (though the Bible does not identify the days of the week when these events occurred).

That it started on Friday, October 13, 1307, the date that many Knights Templar were simultaneously arrested in France, by agents of King Philip IV.

More Friday the 13th info here and here

I find this completely baffling.

Ryanair boss plans £7 tickets [from Europe] to America

Michael O'Leary, the chief executive of Ryanair, said yesterday he was planning to bring his no-frills approach to transatlantic flights, offering one-way tickets from less than £7.

(via linkbunnies.org)

Have £30,000 - £40,000 laying around?

You might want to pick up this Banksy self-portrait, up for auction at Bonhams in London. An excellent investment, no doubt.



Lot Details : Banksy Self-Portrait

UPDATE (4/25/07):
It sold for £198,000 - five times its estimated value,

Kathleen Lolley : In Search of Remedies

Not the sort of thing I'm normally drawn to, but I find her work really intriguing.







weareokok.com

Don't pick on David Sedaris, people.

Sheesh. How lame is this?

David Sedaris and a million little chuckles

There’s a minor scandal brewing for American funnyman David Sedaris. Last month in a New Republic piece, Alex Heard called out Sedaris on embellishments and fabrications in several of his non-fiction humour pieces. Most of these instances were minor, and Sedaris himself admits to them, citing storyteller’s licence. Still, writes Heard, there’s something wrong here: “No, I’m not equating him with Frey or Blair or Glass…. most of his crimes are petty, making him a nonfiction juvenile delinquent rather than a frogwalk-worthy felon. Still, his work is marketed as nonfiction, and there’s a simple rule associated with that: Don’t make things up.”

(article from Quillblog)

Text yourself a book.

Man, I wish I'd known about this when my car broke down a few weeks ago. I could've been reading while waiting an hour and half for the tow truck...


Wattpad is all about reading and sharing stories on your mobile phone. The stories on Wattpad are uploaded by community members like you. You can upload whatever you want to share - a story, an essay or a joke, and then read it on your phone or send it to your friends via SMS.

To send a story from the website, click the "Send to Phone" button on the story page. You can send it by SMS or email, your friend will receive a link to read the story. You can also send the story from Wattpad on your phone, select "Send by SMS" when you are reading a story and enter their phone number.

Wattpad - Spread your word

(via thrillist.com)

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July.

This is fab by itself, but even better if you check out he web site.

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

(Thanks for the heads up, Czeltic Girl.)

Robot with Headphones.

How cute are these??


Loveable Robot with Headphones

New Blik wall graphics.

Oh, man. These rock. Looks like they're available in custom colors for an extra $10.


blik Bamboo: blik

(via Design*Sponge)

Strong Hans.

I do love me some books and art, all swished together.


Etsy :: Fourcrows Art

(again via Eclectic Detective)

Brrrrawk x 12.

These made me smile.

Signals - A dozen egg vases

(via Eclectic Detective)

Cassette tote bag.

I'm not even a purse girl, and I want one of these.


Time to unwind and rewind with this low-tech cassette tote bag. Full-color printed flexible plastic, complete with handles that look like the tape is unraveling (didn’t you just hate it when that happened?). Casual and roomy, our Cassette Tote is the perfect way to pack your important stuff (like your leg warmers, mini skirt, and jelly shoes). What a feelin’!

FRED life

(via Smidigt, an ace blog)

An amazing collection of behind-the-scenes museum photos.

Beautiful.





Over the course of a year Justine Cooper captured the behind the scenes storage areas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Using a vintage wood 4x5 camera, Cooper shares rare glimpses into their massive housed collections and reveals a trail of scientific desire that reaches back into the 19th century and across the 4 corners of the earth. Cooper deftly wended her way from basement to attic, peering into thousands of vats, drawers, corners and cupboards along the way to produce this vivid series of photographs. Her access was unprecedented as the first and only artist-in-residence at the Museum in its almost 150 year history.

DANEYAL MAHMOOD GALLERY - Justine Cooper

(via we make money not art)