The International Dialects Of English Archive

Marry got married  and wished us all a merry Christmas. Anyone from New York will tell you that the three M-words above are all pronounced differently.

Yinz know what I’m talking about?

IDEA – The International Dialects Of English Archive.…

Insta exhibit: autografik on flickr

Flickr: The Autografik Pool.

TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE

TECHNOVIKING ARCHIVE.

Because why not, right?

Maps!

Maps! Maps! Maps!

We love the strangemaps blog, so coming across MAPCO (via the always-excellent Metafilter) really brightened up our Monday.

Rad aerial of Gallipoli inside.

Laughing Kookaburras and Preserved Fetuses

Thank god the Museum of Animal Perspectives exists to post videos of what it looks like to walk through the woods from the top of a wolf’s head. But actually, this one is pretty good: Laughing Kookaburras

Installment 1: Katie Paterson

First installment of exposing art made by females. 3 litres glacial meltwater, 3 litres silicon, 3 turntables [2007]

Prodigal Suns

I met Russell and Carl at their store, RePOP on Washington Avenue in Clinton Hill, and then stumbled upon (or, kind of internet stalked them until finding more) this seemingly outdated, but wonderful website of theirs: Prodigal Suns.

Nudity? In an ART MUSEUM?

“Public lewdness” at the Met gets us all hot and bothered about nudity in museums. Bodies and art after the jump.

National Geographic Archives Cracked

The New York Times reveals that the National Geographic Society is entertaining the idea of opening up its archive of more than 11 million images to the fine-art market for the first time.

amass appeal

What will you Amass?

anatomy, homey

Anatomie Hommes vers 1900

Atlas Obscura

We’d turned off our twitter, ignored our to-blog bookmarks, and generally gotten-the-fuck-outta-dodge when erstwhile SD contributor JC sent us a link to a new project from some old favorites. It’s Atlas Obscura, a wiki-like compendium of the odd by…