The Shackleton Centenary Expedition website (via fed by birds), re-tracing the legendary 1909 Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole. Related, although literally poles apart, the Northwest Passage becomes passable (via kottke). See also Souvenirs of the Shackleton Exhibition, or buy a small part of Shackleton's house in Sydenham, close to his school in Dulwich (and also home to his notorious younger brother Frank). See A Low-Latitude Antarctic Gazette for more polar tales.

Map Of Boston Hidden Inside Cane / Written on the City, graffiti and more / architecture photos by Andrew Paul Carr / printfetish, a weblog about publications / go on, show us your metal t-shirt, via izreloaded / a lovingly compiled website dedicated to miniskirts and hotpants, through vintage imagery. Relatively tame stuff, and mostly just fantastic snapshots of fashions gone by. Ann-Margret entertains the troops / Break and Enter, a London weblog / Ninth Letter, a weblog / Puerto Rico in the 40s and 50s, a flickr set.

Anthony Lane on the enduring mystique of the Leica: '...when Winogrand died, in 1984, at the age of fifty-six, he left behind more than two and a half thousand rolls of film that hadn't even been developed.' / Blanka, photography and prints / 20x200, artists' editions / Video game teaches medics how to treat blast victims / icon magazine relaunches its website. Dezeen launches a redesign / did Stephen King murder John Lennon? Just one of the world's weirdest/stupidest conspiracy theories, collated at swallowing the camel. Our new favourite is the Phantom Time Hypothesis.

Found things; we have a new gallery - Thomas Kalak's intriguing street photography from Bangkok. posted by things at 20:24 / 0 comments