Too bad he doesn't know that his teammate standing next to him has been playing ball, so to speak, with her already.
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What self respecting man or woman would walk around in public on a rainy day with such an abortion?
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Booty calling before the days of text messages and cell phones thanks to Western Union's telegram service! I like this guy Stephen's style in his message to Katharine Hepburn: it's direct and aims high (Katharine Hepburn!). Or as the New York Times pointed out, it "almost resembles email in its lack of punctuation and in its upper-case sense of urgency."
[I forgot the site or blog where I first guffawed upon seeing this screen capture. I broke rule number 5 of blogging. Poor form. If you know where this is from, let me know and I can properly credit/cite/hat tip. Spanks!]

I'm blown away by Cal Lane's intricately detailed and delicate sculptures which she creates by using a "torch to cut baroque patterns into such mundane objects as shovels, Dumpsters and old oil drums." Find out more about the artist in this New York Times article.
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This beer bottle chandelier combines two of my favorite things: beer and cool light fixtures. Yes, I like light fixtures. So what?
This 82×82 centimeter square of burned grass equates to the size of one pixel from an altitude of one kilometer. I like the confluence here between technology, art, and the rising surveillance culture in this conceptual piece titled "Dead Pixel in Google Earth" by Helmut Smits (previously).
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"Lust" is from Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese's line of snow globes, each based on one of the seven deadly sins. Buy individually or the complete set at the New Museum.
A highly detailed flatbed truck built from LEGO bricks by Maciej Drwiega. I'm consistently awed by LEGO toys no matter how old I get each year.

The quad-color branding that Google uses always reminds me of that memory game Simon.
Thanks to Melissa for turning me on to these cool collages by Anthony Zinonos.
From the time capsule: a note written by "M" aka Monica Lewinsky, who was feeling disposable, used and insignificant, to Bill Clinton.
BuzzFeed lists 11 winter activities that should be a part of the Winter Olympics. #3. Snow Angels
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This witty piece by Robert Wechsler can still be found in room 134 of the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.
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Jerry Pethick, "Le Semeur/Sunlight and Flies."
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