Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text. The Onion, spot on as usual. Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text. Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words.

The Gobekli Tepe temple near Sanliurfa, Turkey, is thought to predate civilization. The site isn’t just old, it redefines old: the temple was built 11,500 years ago—a staggering 7,000 years before the Great Pyramid, and more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge first took shape. The ruins are so early that they predate villages, pottery, domesticated animals, and even agriculture—the first embers of civilization.

Our world may be a giant hologram. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface. the 3D information about a precursor star can be completely encoded in the 2D horizon of the subsequent black hole – not unlike the 3D image of an object being encoded in a 2D hologram. Mind blown, check back later (via justin).

Behind the redesign of the New York Times Magazine. Great visual and typographic treatment

Why some countries drive on the right and others on the left. The countries that drive on the left are largely made up of former British colonies, but they do account for 34% of the world’s population.

A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a piece of artwork by Caleb Larson that perpetually tries to sells itself. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

Dancing chicken projected on a brick wall at the Crypt Gallery.

For his new book, Al Gore wanted some tweaks to the typeface. “You see, Al is really involved with the project and we spend a lot of time working together in the publisher’s office. When he was reviewing the proofs, he had a comment about the typeface. Basically, he wants you to change the numeral one.” As a result, there is an updated version of Brioni now available.