40 years ago today, officials in Lane County, Oregon dynamited a whale carcass on the shore of the Pacific. Here’s the news report and video of the explosion and its aftermath (skip to the 2:03 mark to get to the explosion).

Turn on the Bright Lights
Taken with Hipstamatic, Libatique 73 Lens, DC Film, No Flash.
Cable Car Line, San Francisco, 1946 by Fred Lyon
Map of Twitter activity in New York City. (via Gothamist)
Cupid’s Celestial View (by Mike Berenson - Colorado Captures)
This weekend the NYT published Shaila Dewan and...
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