Seconding @billsimmon: 'NC artist arrested for being awesome.'

Urban camouflage. More here. (Thanks, Jacob!)

Deserving of a better post than a quick 'war on geese' joke is Thursday's U.S. Airlines crash, which has really turned out to be a remarkable story. There's video from a Coast Guard camera on LiveLeak (the crash occurs about two minutes in), as well as properly exultant summaries from Josh Marshall and Edge of the American West.

Manga Watchmen. That's pretty awesome. Via Tor and Progressive Ruin.

Bollywood will remake Back To The Future. This is guaranteed to be awesome.

The blog icon for this week is of course shamelessly stolen from the Warning Signs of the Future Flickr group, one of my absolute favorite things on the Internet. That's why I'm so glad I ran across the Doktor Sleepless wiki this afternoon, which has a similar aesthetic from the minds of Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez. (Information on the series here. Originally via grinding.be.)

In the end I found it necessary to troll the site for every Warning Sign image I could find, which I now happily share with you. So cool.













Most of these originate in a series of variant "warning sign" covers done for issues of the series, which I will now absolutely have to check out, if only because of stuff like this.

The awesome LEGO anatomy cutaway I'm using for this week's blog icon is actually available as a full-size print from Moist Productions. I ask you, world: who among you loves me $59 worth?

This thread from YayHooray (via MeFi) is easily the coolest thing I've linked to this year and possibly the coolest thing I've linked to in the entire time I've been doing this, with all the great flowcharts and infographics you've come to love from years on the innertubes. Some highlights:

this week's blog icon, the LEGO anatomy chart
probably next week's blog icon, the gummi anatomy chart
the week after that, sci-fi awesomeness
the interstate highway system as a subway map
your digestive system as a subway map
area codes in which Ludacris claims to have hoes
Sarah Palin pregnancy decision map
the map of Zork that doubles as my desktop
New Jersey invites you to come and see it all
extinction timeline, 1950-2050
narrative map of classic Choose Your Own Adventure novel The Cave of Time
risk perception and actual hazards
a chart of how Americans spend their money that seems to strongly argue for a national salary cap around $100,000
a map of the United States expressed in terms of proximate distance from Knoxville, TN
the Indo-European family tree (and again)
a visual guide to the financial crisis
a flowchart history of Cubism

Keep in mind those are just highlights. This is can't miss.

Best news I've heard all day: Wild monkey loose in Japanese subway eludes police.

Celebrate NASA's 50th the right way with this huge archive of space-program photographs at Project Apollo Archive. Via Cynical-C.

Jeffrey "George Bluth" Tambor: "After months of speculation, I think we have finally figured out for sure that we are indeed doing an Arrested Development movie." God bless America. That is all.

Clips from last night's Springsteen show are starting to show up on YouTube.

American Land / Finale

Saint in the City/Trapped



Both these songs were unexpected highlights, though unfortunately the sound quality on the clip isn't all that fantastic. There's also a nice story about Danny Federici before the music starts.

I'm hoping to write something short for the Indy about Bruce this week, so I'm outsourcing my morning-after report entirely to the very good people at backstreets.com:

Charging out of the gate, they set the tone for a high-energy performance, the best of this Southern swing so far.

Well, all right! If I'd had my druthers, I might have been to the Charlotte show on Sunday night instead, if only to have seen that encore: Thunder Road, Kitty's Back, Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark. But still, our setlist was pretty crazy awesome itself:

Roulette
Don't Look Back
Radio Nowhere
Out in the Street
The Promised Land
Magic
Gypsy Biker
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
Trapped
Because the Night
Darkness on the Edge of Town
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
Mary's Place
Waitin' on a Sunny Day
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands

ENCORE:
Backstreets
Bobby Jean
Born to Run
Ramrod
American Land

I don't see any video yet, but there's some video from Charlotte up at YouTube. If you say your prayers and eat your vitamins and squint your eyes you can just make out my buddy Shankar in the Pit losing his mind and saving his soul (keep your eyes above the YouTube logo):

He's right at the right edge of the screen—a woman bumps into him at the 2:40 mark, but you can see it doesn't faze him a bit.

When all else fails, stick a live tooth in your eye cavity to avoid going blind.

FOR one father and son, the Biblical exhortation of "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" has acquired a unique new meaning.

Rob McNichol's son -- also called Rob -- didn't think twice when the chance arose to help his dad to see again by giving him a canine tooth.

Father-of-eight Mr McNichol snr (57) was blinded in a work-place accident, when liquid aluminium exploded in his face in November 2005.

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The surgery, Osteo Odonto Kerato Prosthesis (OOKP), involved fitting a living canine tooth with an optical cylinder and transplanting it into the eye cavity.

I'm not sure which Philip K. Dick novel this is from, but we're living it today. Via grinding.be.

Classic sci-fi reimagined as Russia woodcuts, probably the single greatest website ever. Via Boing Boing.

Via Cynical-C, this is surely the coolest self-photograph in human history.