Some call this predatory fish “Fishzilla” due its ability to spawn rapidly and live on land for days. One Man’s Search for the Elusive Snakehead Fish in Central Park.

hmmmm. based on the description - elusive, predatory, spawns rapidly - put a chamois sport coat on that fella, and what you got there is my second husband.

GE’s Tumblr, an adjunct to GE Reports (engaging stories), is proving to be fascinating on its own. (image source)

MP3s: Slow Magic, On Yr Side. since78, travel mix. The Dadada, spring mix.

A mysterious box provides an extraordinary escape for a prisoner. Or does it? Room 8, a short film from the imagination of James W. Griffiths.

Holy vertigo, Batman! If ever I suggest having a picnic here, assume i’m seriously off my meds and take appropriate action

Chineasy is a visual-based learning system which teaches Chinese characters, simple stories and phrases. Our aim is to bring down the great wall of Chinese language. (via)

Revisits: Mr. Happy Man. The Lost Tribes of New York City. I Am.

“Watching the videos Bynes posts on her Twitter doesn’t feel like watching someone giving a poor performance. It feels like watching someone lose her mind.” Nathan Pensky

That’s it, poopsies. Lumineers, swiffer duster, then something in the way of strictly brain-optional entertainment. Have a happy.

Mehdi Ghadyanloo | Janat Abad (royaye koodakane)

Loving the colorful, witty pop culture inspired work of New York-based artist Marz jr.

MP3s: Rhye, Open. Vampire Weekend, Ya Hey. Aly Tadros and Ben Balmer, Whim. Natural Child, Let the Good Times Roll. Polytype, Cyclone. …..and a bunch more.

Rejected Submissions to NASA’s “Send a Haiku to Mars” Contest.

Bouncy, musicy, creative fun. Shugo Tokumaru “Katachi”.

Isn’t this piece by Xiamen, China based artist Oamul Lu, aka Lumao, lovely and delicate? See everything on the blog at a glance here. (via)

Enjoying Klaus. Perhaps you might as well. (via)

Tidy respository of jQuery plugins. Unheap. (via)

Revisits: Notes from the Road. Microcar Museum. Caught by the River. Poncz Magazine.

“In an interview with Piers Morgan, Lindsay Lohan revealed that she’s only taken cocaine ‘maybe 4 or 5 times.’ Not 4 or 5 times in her life, but during that interview.” Jonas Polsky

Teetering and hungry. Maybe barbeque and fart balloons will help.

AT-AT in Chicago

Happy Star Wars Day! Happy Free Comic Book Day! What did you pick up, eh?

Notes from the Field: Museé Fragonard | Atlas Obscura

MP3s: The Bad Lovers, Things That I Forgot. Sleeping at Last, Uneven Odds. The Low Anthem, Charlie Darwin. Amy Speace, The Sea and The Shore.

heheh. Anne made me smile again.

This symbolically approached film by Michael Frei invites us to think - do contrasts attract or not? If we have a counterpart in a parallel world, can we meet and become entwined in another world? Or are we supposed to maintain the universe in balance? Not About Us.

“You’ll smile during the day but every night you will toss and turn…..” down the rabbit hole.

From The Lenz is a multi-media company based out of San Francisco, started by artists with the common goal of creating things that move, feel and inspire the soul. And i’m loving it, particularly “luminance”. (via)

I’m terribly unfond of people, but some of my best friends are deer. Chloe, in particular. She has a deformity of the mouth and jaw that makes foraging for food in winter snows difficult at best; she comes to my patio door when starving, allowing me to stroke her as she eats, putting up with my chatter. Three winters together so far. Such a beautiful creature. And so you can imagine the goodly amount of time spent weeping when I read this last evening. We humans can be such an appalling species. Some of us truly need to rot in Hell.

The only way to grow poetry is to make it a habit. Nurseries of Verse by J. Patrick Lewis.

Revisits: Pulse. Fontastica Pixel Pattern Fonts. Amy Winfrey. Amuse Bouche Recipes. Al Dente.

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.” LJ

For the life of me, i’m sure i’ve forgotten something. Probably for the best, considering. Perhaps i’ll low-five myself anyhow. Later.

Jon Reinfurt | Soft Serve Camo-Bot

ice cream + robots? yes, please.

Totally Tiny Arcade is a collection of 27 PC minigames inspired by 80’s classics like Frogger, Space Invaders, Pac Man, etc. (see also: retrospec, my abandonware and how to play abandonware games.)

MP3s: Calvin Love, Missions. Broke For Free, The Gold Lining. Cayucas, East Coast Girl. Soft Moon, Breathe The Fire.

In the autumn of 1998, a profound tragedy echoed through a small Michigan farming community and twisted the well laid plans of a young prodigy in strange and inspired ways. Juggle & Cut.

Global Oneness Project: Sharing films, media and educational materials that connect us to our greater human potential. (via)

Digging the “designy illustration” of Mikey Burton. Very nice indeed.

Enjoying Darcel and Friends remixes. Quite smile-worthy.

Some folks know how to live and simply do it well. Sunsets, Biking, Walks, and Coleslaw.

File this one under Songs For The Goddamn Open Road. Gallup, NM.

Indie Game Revisits: Locomalito. TIGdb. Ishisoft Games. Little Girl in Underland. Cave Story Deluxe Package.

“Ann Coulter said ‘zero immigrants should be collecting government assistance’ and ‘we have our own native-born losers.’ She seems fun.” Rex Huppke

Ten brain-dead points if you lean on the burner of the stove without first checking to insure some nimrod hasn’t left the burner on. Extra points if you were the nimrod in question. Filed under: real talent.