Random Infographic Of The Day: Where’s The Pet Rat?

Pet popularity and pricing according to christineparkdesign:

I Want This Flying Car

From Gizmodo

Paris-based photographer Ben Sandler took Alvar Aalto’s Maison Carré house—a beautifully preserved monument-turned-museum—and used it as the backdrop of Tomorrowland, a stylized photo shoot done in ultra-ritzy, retro 60′s Mad Men fashion.

FastCoDesign via Gizmodo

Bloody Marys: Mmmmm

Cool story on NPR about the chemical composition of a Bloody Mary.

From NPR:

… Da Costa has used every trick in the chemist’s book to analyze each ingredient, and the cocktail as whole. He presented his findings at a meeting of the American Chemical Society this week. Da Costas, an expert in food flavors, is chairman-elect of the group’s agriculture and food chemistry division.

With gas and liquid chromatography, Da Costa isolated the wide variety of compounds that give the bloody mary its unique flavor. The drink covers much of the taste spectrum: sweet, salty, sour and umami — the savory taste of glutamic acid.

I Hate Myself A Little Bit

For loving this camera.

Yeah, its probably over priced and over styled but it just looks like it would feel good in the hands…

Overview from dpreview.com

Infographic: Radiation Dosage Chart

Recently there have been a few different charts and graphics that attempt to to explain the level of radiation exposure that is happening in Japan and with nuclear energy in general. This one is by far the most impactful in it’s demonstration of daily versus risky exposure.

From informationisbeautiful.net via Fast Company

Road Trip!

Desert out front, snowy mountains behind us.

My House The Time Machine

What year is it anyway?

Looking Out The Window

Of a 1972 Airstream at Joshua Tree.

Joshua Tree

March 2011

HO Gauge

Hillbillies at the San Diego model train museum.