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A wintry forest looks picturesque, but slow-motion violence hides in the frame rate.

"EACH FLUID OUNCE CONTAINS THE VIRTUES OF TWO OUNCES OF FRESH BEEF WITH ONE OUNCE SHERRY WINE." From the design blog codex99, a collection of early twentieth-century tonic labels illustrates the fickle nature of pharmaceutical progress.

The bicycle rider always wants a car, Kevin Kelly reminds us in What Technology Wants. But the car won't make him happier�and if what technology wants is autonomy, it may be advised against the pursuit of happiness.

More domestic style than you or I can hope to amass in a lifetime�displayed in ten seconds. We might want to think about what that says for style... We so badly want to be our things. Video after the jump.

Nature as marketing campaign? That shit's fucked up. Video after the jump.

A hypnagogic animation of mathematical imagery prompts thoughts of spinning fractal symmetries and the history of life on Earth. Video after the jump.

In a lodge in the shadow of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, reading tales of the summit's almost-implausibly calamitous past.

A giant aircraft, a wandering writer's enigmatic death, and a cyborg with can-do spirit�today's hits in the history of science and technology.

What Instagram did with Polaroid aesthetics, iSupr8 wants to do with the mid-century home movie format. It's an example of the peculiar flavor of Internet-era image nostalgia, expressed in app form. Video after the jump.

Robust and primitive, is the GIF the nematode of online imagery? it's as if C. elegans had swum down through the aeons to intersect with an image-making format engineered to express its qualities.