Whimsy


Sleep easy? Pah! In your dreams.

Sleep should be relaxing, right? Except when you add in kids, mosquitoes, clanking pipes and the cold side of the bed. Christoph Niemann draws the real sleep nightmare.

Video of the Day: If paper ruled your world

Can you guess what this video is an ad for? The answer is written on the walls.

Face off: The World Beard Championships

Alaska played host to the World Beard and Moustache Championships recently, with some of Earth’s finest hairy horticulture on display.

The promiscuous use of “community”

Jason Peters is sick of people bastardising the word “community”. He has created a list of guidelines for future usage.

In which First Dog writes a poem…

In today’s editorial meeting while everyone was talking about the ETS. So I wrote a poem, writes Mr Onthemoon.

April in Paris *sigh*

Oh Paris, with your darling streets named after grammarians and revolutionaries and mathematicians. A writer muses on lilacs and cheese and radishes.

Swinefighter: the swine flu game

It isn’t news until someone makes a bad flash game about it. Thus: Swinefighter, the swine flu game.

One good thing about winter: pencil scarves

It’s a scarf and a pencil with a face. What more do you need to know?

New York in Lego

Berlin-based conceptual illustrator Christoph Niemann’s misses New York. A lot (by the signs of his Lego ode to the Big Apple).

Kittens vs. Sunsets

Who will win the Flickr war?