Rocket Frog

One of NASA's remote cameras capturing the launch of LADEE from the Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia on September 6, 2013 also snapped this unlucky frog caught in the aftermath.

Cue a eulogy for the frog:

She packed my bags last night, pre-flight Zero hour, nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then.

I miss the Earth so much, I miss my wife. It's lonely out in space, On such a timeless flight.

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ‘til touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the frog they think I am at home Oh no, no, no, I'm a rocket frog Rocket frog, burning out his fuse up here alone.

From the Archives

Sammy Davis and Martin Luther King Jr having a laugh. I would love to know what they were discussing.

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There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

- Gerald Early

Trillion Dollars for Three Dollars

This 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe can currently be purchased off Amazon for $3. Zimbabwe abandoned this currency for obvious reasons in 2009. I dig the stacked rocks though.

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I say everything's about the company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is a great meal.

- Chris Rock

In 1989 a small record label Sub Pop Records signed another small band for $600, an amount that the label wrote was "six hundred bucks well spent—not that we had it at the time."

The name of the band? Nirvana.

The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Step aside E=MC squared, because scientists at the Royal Society of Chemistry have figured out the formula (see above) for the perfect grilled cheese sandwich.

...the perfect slice can be made by melting 50 grams of sliced hard cheese, such as cheddar, on a slice of white bread, 10mm thick, under the grill. The cheese on toast should sit at a distance of 18cm from the heat source – which in our grill was at a temperature of 115oC – and needs to cook for four minutes to achieve the perfect consistency and taste.

No word yet on what George Foreman's thoughts are on this.

Rock and Rap All Night

From the Internet archives here is Tupac presenting with KISS at the 1996 Grammys.

Or you know, "back when music was GOOD back in my days." - Old man sitting on a rocking chair on his porch.

Heartland of America

If you'll permit a little bit of juvenileness here, I got a chuckle out of this catch spotted by a photographer I follow as he flew over somewhere near Denver.

AMERICA.

Scene in New York

The Magic School Bus field trip goes horribly, horribly wrong.

Woody Allen's Screening Room

Photo by Terry Richardson of Woody Allen's film screening room. I feel like we got a little glimpse behind the proverbial curtain.

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Some say that pictures speak louder than words. Then again those people might just really hate writing. In any case, here are some recent photos from my life.

Thom Browne Street Fighter

Upscale designer Thom Browne's latest upcoming line appears to be largely inspired by M. Bison.

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Monsters TBD

Chris Sasaki, a character designer at Pixar shared a bunch of his concept art of various monsters for his company's new film Monsters University.

The film did okay at the box office.

T-shirt for the Internet

"No, thank you."

From the Archives

Wilt Chamberlain as a 17-year-old senior at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia in 1954. He would later move on to become a somewhat adequate basketball player.

Scene in New York

Kottke spotted this commentary on New York City's bike share program. I suspect that this is the work of Poster Boy.

I Used to be Just a Guy. Now I’m Jimmy Wales.

Via the New York Times Magazine's latest profile on Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia pictured above in 2001, the same year that Wikipedia launched.

Children's Dream Chairs in Real Life

A classroom of seven and eight-year olds at St John's Church of England Primary School in Kingston, Surrey were each given a piece of paper and told to draw their dream chair. Two of the drawings were then selected and actually built by designers Jack Beveridge and Joshua Lake.

The rocking chair pictured above includes a fish bowl which is rather inconsiderate for the fish considering that it's attached to a...rocking chair. Kids...Can't trust them.

The children whose drawings weren't selected were taught a life lesson about winners and losers in life.

Jack Kerouac: Poet, Football Player

I missed this little bit of trivia in high school poetry class. Jack Kerouac was once a star fullback on his high school football team before he broke his leg while a freshman at Columbia University during practice.

Speaking of writers and sports, I love this popular anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut.

Back in the mid-1950s, he was employed by Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that had jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, "The horse jumped over the fucking fence," and walked out, self-employed again.

Love it.