If you called him 10-15 years ago he would be in the darkroom making prints. If you try to call him now he is on the computer editing photos. The digital revolution has been great for certain things like reducing overhead since a big chunk used to go to film processing costs, but the easy manipulation of the new…

The golomyanka fish from Lake Baikal in Siberia is nearly 40% oil.

Bookmarked. A friend of mine is a commercial photographer and he worked on a shoot at LSU with a guy from SI. He said the equipment the guy had was incredible. My friend is a pro but this was a whole other league. Resources.

Nice. I've got a bunch of the Bond vintage paperbacks from the 60s like these. All later printings so they're not worth anything but still pretty cool.

Don't look under the bed.

Galveston hurricane. September 8, 1900. Approximately 8,000 dead. May have been as high as 12,000.

By coincidence it has been almost exactly ten years since burnt sienna was saved from extinction.

I have a steel Buckhorn beer can.

I think they were meant to actually be scary before the mass-produced, PG-rated stuff came along. They succeeded. The old black and white photography adds something to the creepiness too.

There is a guy in New Orleans who supposedly has the largest private collection of rum. Over 1000 bottles. Many of them vintage.

Indeed. Found those by accident yesterday while looking for some equally disturbing Diane Arbus Halloween photos:

Gloop and/or Gleep.

I prefer vintage costumes.

That is the first one I thought of too.

What are the rules on kitchen splits?

Here is the National Geographic article I posted on the original io9 piece:

No burnt sienna? It's a conspiracy.