Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Go the Fuck To Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing off to dreamland. Honest, profane, and affectionate, Adam Mansbach’s verses and Ricardo Cortés’ illustrations perfectly capture the familiar–and unspoken–tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night, and open up a conversation about parenting in the process. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the Fuck to Sleep is a perfect gift for parents new, old, or expectant. Here is a sample verse:

The cats nestle close to their kittens now.
The lambs have laid down with the sheep.
You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear
Please go the fuck to sleep.

Pre-order it here.

Boing Boing

The average internet surfer either blinks, processes some form of infographic or does something else three times every 22.7 seconds. In other words, if your eye was one fifteenth the size of the moon, the nearest infographic would be exactly 42 football fields away.

Colombian photographer and graphic artist, Jose Duarte visualises this sort of guff in real life using string, balloons, tiny wooden blocks and not a little charm.

Data sources (and more infographics) at Jose’s Flickr Stream

Bonus: he appears to be offering his cute visualisation kit for free.

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Purportedly posted at a north Yorkshire golf club during the Blitz, and a prime example of (a) the British stiff upper lip, and/or (b) the overwhelming pettiness of golf and/ or (c) some club wag taking the piss. Still.

German aircraft from Norway would fly on missions to northern England; because of the icy weather conditions, the barrels of their guns had a small dab of wax to protect them. As they crossed the coast, they would clear their guns by firing a few rounds at the golf courses. Golfers were urged to take cover.

Boing Boing

Artist, Juliana Santacruz Herrera transforms the streets of Paris with lengths of dyed, braided fabric, using the many cracks and potholes of the city as her ‘canvas’.

Meanwhile, on a road near you.

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xkcd’s Tetris Heaven cartoon has been brought to life in the form of this playable Flash game that actually makes with the good pieces just when you need them. You can still lose, but you’d want to be really bad at Tetris.

Play it here.

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It’s 369 feet high – about twice the size of the Statue of Liberty (minus the foundation) and it’s somewhere in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, but “Stratosphere Giant,” as it’s known, it is no longer the tallest tree in the world.

After its short four-year reign as World’s Tallest, two hikers, Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor, were deep in another section of another park, Redwood National Park (purchased in 1978 during the Carter administration) when they came across a new stand of trees, taller than anyone had ever seen before. The tallest of the tall is 379 feet 4 inches, 10 feet taller than the Giant. It’s now called “Hyperion.”

The World’s Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California (npr)

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