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Pictures of abandoned filling stations.

Inspired by the now-defunct Life magazine, The Boston Globe has introduced a great section of high quality picture-stories on it’s website.

(via Waxy, who points to Kokogiak’s announcement)

Another cool project from the often-busy Ze Frank has been everywhere this morning. If you haven’t seen, do give it a look.

Dolores Labs is quickly becoming the go-to source for entertaining data that I’m not comfortable calling science. Another example: they’ve asked people to judge faces by age, politics, and intelligence. They present the pictures as they were rated along those axes.

The MishMash has some truly amazing signs. Some are minor errors (sail not sale) but some are simply breathtaking. My favorite is probably the “Groj Sale,” which I can only assume is supposed to be “garage.” And getting an “oring” for 25p isn’t too bad a price. But really, who wouldn’t want to shop at Sneak Petes, which is now “severing chicken wings?”

It should also be noted the the comments around the pictures are nearly as good as the pictures themselves. So do waste a minute checking it out.

deputydog has assembled a set of incredibly cool-looking scientific research centers. I will readily admit that I don’t understand much of what any of these places do, or how they do it, but they certainly look interesting.

Also, my apologies that the page’s text is disorganized, uncapitalized, and hard to read. Just remember that you’re going for the pictures.

(via magnetbox)

“This Peanut…” is a curious and short assemblage of objects that, well, look like ducks. Not much more to say than that.