We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

If you were able to magically return to your ten-year-old self and make a list of all the things that fascinated you, it would probably look like a diagram of Radio-Guy’s obsessions. We mean this as the highest possible compliment.

Radio-Guy is Steve Erenberg, who collects and displays old anatomical models of the brain, dental mpression tray wall hanging displays, portable operating chair circa World War I, old radio batteries, vintage space-age looking televisions, steam engines, salesman samples, old x-ray tubes and tons of other stuff. Oh, the best part? YOU CAN BUY IT ALL! The result would look like the dream bedroom of a very precocious and science-minded 19th-century kiddo.

If the phrase “nickel-plated” revs your engine, consider a tour through the site. And start saving your pennies.

The problem with World War I German U-boats is that they were very good at torpedoing allied ships. The obvious solution was to camouflage American and British ships, but here too there was a snag: any paint scheme that effectively hid a boat in one situation would do no good in a situation involving different weather conditions.

Enter Norman Wilkinson , a British artist and naval officer. Wilkinson developed a disruptive camouflage technique that took its cues from cubism. Rather than attempting to conceal the ship, the new scheme aimed at bewildering German U-boat commanders. Did it work? Remains unclear. “Crews on dazzle ships,” however, “were very proud of the bedazzled camouflage.“