The Fire Tetrahedron, from Hobart Institute of Welding Technology.

“People ask me, ‘What do you do?’ And I tell them I’m a writer, but always with the silent reservation, ‘I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.’
“I like to stay in my room. I have an office and I go there every day and write. I used to think I’d […]

The New York Times has posted a glorious interactive graphic of box office grosses from 1986 to 2008. See how blockbusters spike and then fizzle away and word-of-mouth favorites extend into plump worms. I love how the graphic turns the film industry into a thorny, twisting vine of earth-toned globs — clumped together […]

Winner of the 2004 [City Lights Competition] to create an innovative, state-of-the-art streetlight design — to light streets, sidewalks, and parks within the city’s five boroughs.

Images from the [NYC Department of Design & Construction] and [LEDs Magazine].

[discovered via Pause, to Begin | Blog]
“The flights of sooty shearwaters documented in this new study represent the longest animal migration routes ever recorded using electronic tracking technology: around 65,000 kilometres (39,000 miles). Taking advantage of prevailing winds along different parts of the migration route, the birds trace giant figure eights over the Pacific Basin.” […]