Wart asked me to post a link to the airplane folding site… Well here it is:

Link

Here is a couple of wonderful photos of Germany in 1929.

These pictures were taken from an old coffee-table book of Germany. Other than two prefaces there was no text: only 304 full-page reproductions of black and white photographs with captions in five European languages.

Below is a nice 1929 picture of Cologne, the town I live in:

Link (via boingboing)

I’ve been asked about the stupid rat creatures category on the website.

Well it basically is my way to describe an incredibly stupid event. Where stupid is according to my definitions. The term itself comes from the Bone comics, by Jeff Smith (get them all, they are great).

To clear up all the questions, here is what the Urban Dictionary has to say about it:

1. int. a term often used by the heroic cast of the graphic novel series Bone, whenever the two main rat creatures do something unquestionably stupid

2. int. a term used to show disgust towards people who have done something really stupid, usu. when this results in major inconvenience to you and/or them and usu. with “rat creatures” substituted for the people you wish to insult

And here is the first (but not the last) occurence of it in the Bone comics: