Links posted in September 2006
September 30, 2006
Hello, Cleveland
Investigitave Journalism at its finest- Cleveland's WKYC Investigitave Reporter, Carl Monday, goes after a teenage boy he finds looking at porn and wanking in a public library, in a six-part, 22-minute series, where he badgers the kid and the kid's parents, in some sort of attempt to seem superior, while wearing a clichéd trench coat. So, The Daily Show (YT video) takes the piss out of Carl in kind. via.
Meanwhile, Osama is still at large.
A new episode of "the Burg" has finally been posted, making fun of hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Funny stuff.
Memories of the Battle of Cable Street, seventy years on.
On The Subject of BOOKS J.D.Salinger is on this list, as are John Steinbeck and Mark Twain. Somewhat astounding, to say the least.
Taking a the piss?
Veselin Topalov is threatening to quit after accusing his opponent at the World Chess Championship, Vladimir Kramnik, of taking an excessive number of toilet breaks (more than fifty a game, apparently).
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Youtube in MeWorld I have noticed a lot of links and varied reactions to utube. [more inside]
September 29, 2006
A post I saw on that other [meta]filter about Waterboarding Unfortunately informative. Makes me squirm, especially as an american...
A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. "What interests me about other people's books is the nature of their collection. A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements." Curious George, Weekend Lit Edition: Pick five books from your collection that are the x-ray of your soul.
Teoria provides on-line music tutorials and exercises for people who would like to know what those black dots on the funny lines mean. Every Good Boy Deserves FPPs. (Flash)
September 28, 2006
Two jerks smuggled monkeys in pants; also leopard cubs, orchids, birds of paradise
So I saw this on Fark, and the monkey reference caught my eye. Appearing on Fark, does that mean that it is redundant to post it here?
Anyway, what a bunch of jerks, I am sorry that the leopard and the monkeys didn't bite off his Chinese Penis Emporium.
Daddy's girl. Millionaire Bruce McMahan loved his daughter so much, he married her. You can find documents (such as the results of a DNA test on a vibrator key to the case) and the daughter's videotaped deposition here.
HP's PI was against identity theft ... in 1999.
In what may become the platinum-iridium metric standard for irony, Ron DeLia, the Massachusetts PI linked to HP's pretexting scandal wrote about the July 1999 issue of his newsletter (pdf, mirror) "when somebody gets your Social Security number, they have the key to your front door forever" and adds "Congress made identity theft a felony."
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US Republican-Owned Govenment Allows Torture, Gets Rid of Habeas Corpus
Yes, an agreement to torture prisoners, deny them a hearing, and file it under the subject of "fighting terrorism" is on it's way to being passed. As one wag has it:
"The bill simply removes a suspect’s right to challenge his detention in court. This is a rule of law that goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215. That pretty much leaves the barn door open."
For Fuck's Sake people.
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Nano photosynthesis ? "Solar energy is seen by many people as the future in sustainable energy .." Here's something benign, in nanolayers - How it works.
Free Ice Cream at any Cold Stone Creamery tonight from 5-8. I'm not generally a Cold Stone Creamery fan. They strike me as sort of the Starbucks of the ice cream world. I mean, what is it now $12 for a single scoop? But hey, free ice cream, dude.
Billy Bragg's current fav video. More YouTubey goodness. [more inside]
Free Hug Campaign! [youtube] This is a story about Juan Mann, a man whose sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives. Hug a stranger today in the spirit of the free hugs campaign! [more inside]
September 27, 2006
Four on the floor I see your four year old playing the drums and raise you this 3 year old rocking out. Oh yeah, well I have a 2 year old playing drums (not as well admittedly). Yeah well I have a fetus playing the congas but I haven't uploaded it yet. (all youtube)
The Evolution of the Speechballoon.
The Big Picture: Edward Burtynsky. A new documentary is coming out on Edward Burtynsky, the photographer who documents industrial landscapes like a Kubrick on steroids. [more inside]
Is the Economic Deck Stacked Against Healthcare for the Elderly? {Scroll Down}
Ping Pong as played in The Matrix Funny and very inventive
Eat a dick! Go eat several, of many different varieties. It's "good for your health".
The Nearest Simile Is Respiration
a poem.
via Poetry Daily
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Baby Toupee: Small wigs for small people.
The New Stitch and a new definition to add to 'embroidery'.
Dinosaur porn. NSFW, unless your boss is cool with a shower of dino spoo. [more inside]
Extreme Baptist Buck Rodgers in the 21st Century ACTION Possibly the most frightening display of Flash Animation EVER!
September 26, 2006
Cutty Sark Good news for navl history: £25million to improve the display of this fastest of tea cutters, in Greenwich.
How White and Nerdy are you? Yeah, online quizzes like this are poo-pooed around here, but like you don't want to know. Like you don't already know. [via BB]
Some of Hitler's watercolours are up for auction.
Horse
Chestnut trees across the south, and increasingly other parts of England, are dying.
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Sid Motishead. On Huddersfield One. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE NOT JUST IN SIDS HEAD. Because, y'know, it's probably been awhile.
50 Dark Movies, Hidden in a painting. Flash fun. [more inside]
Kazakhstan's Borat damage control
Kazakhstan has invested $53 million in making a historical epic, Nomad, to counter what it sees as the damage inflicted upon the nation's reputation by Sacha Baron-Cohen's new film Borat: Cultural Leanings of America Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
September 25, 2006
Curious George: Scary ghosts. I guess I'm about 35 days early, but what are the scariest ghosts or hauntings you've encountered in film and literature? [more inside]
Clinton On "Fox News Sunday"
Fox "News" invites Former President Bill Clinton to talk about his recent Global Initiative conference. Very quickly though, the interviewer uses a variant of the Faux News tactic of "some people say" to blame Clinton for 9/11 ("Why didn't you kill Osama? Why didn't you stop this?")
It's clear from the record that BushCo dropped the ball on anti-terrorism, but this is Fox's job - to obfuscate the facts and make the far right wing look good.
Clinton tells them to STFU.
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Simpson-tastic
All the episodes (well OK up to Season 18 first 2 eps) of our favourite family. Stand by for legalaction! Warning Flash. Clicking in the "X" in the link gives you full screen. Enjoy it while its there!!
Also All Futuramas HERE!
via dailymotion.com
Ape Grape, Orbit Bars, Cosmic Candy A Flickr set of retro labels from kids' cereals and snacks.
September 24, 2006
Rejoice! Image of Jesus Appears on Backside of Beloved Pet!
Audio Warning: Tasteful, not overly loud Midi Hymn on 2nd Page. Also contains Dog Arse.
Snarfled from Blort
Oulipo - an article from The Believer magazine [more inside]
Remember playing with paper dolls? Flash-based celebrity dress-up dolls. I'm somewhat partial to David Tennant, myself.
chess babes. who knew?
The Top 10 Most Embarrassing Fashion Trends of the last 25 Years. Yeeeeaaaah.
September 23, 2006
New in Samorost-Style Games - great post from bluewyvern's blog, Blue Tea. [more inside]
How to Be Sizzling Hot - Guide for Men
- Do you want to be sizzling hot?
"I know it's difficult for the women not to be affected by the constant bombardment of images of male perfection everywhere. It's understandable that when they look at those pictures of huge biceps and chiseled chins and then look over at you stuffing your fat face with nachos, they can't hide the look of disgust on their faces."
Dandiya fever
is breaking out again across India as Navratri, the nine-day festival of dancing and fasting in honour of Durga comes round again.
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Animator V Animation. Flash animation thingy. via
Torture's Long Shadow -- A Soviet Dissident's Advice to the US One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria, "five suspects have already confessed to stealing it." [more inside]
Disaster and Alert Map Of the world. The National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications keeps an updated map on current world disasters, forebodings, and crises. [more inside]
September 22, 2006
Banned Book Week 2006,
organised by the ALA marks the 25th anniversary of the event There are texts of some famous banned books online.
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War On Terror. The board game.
The Terranaut: like a fish needs a bicycle
Johnny Cash Prepaid Visa [more inside]
September 21, 2006
Have you ever met Jodi? I don't know what you could get from her. But I'm sure it's something. Don't be fooled by the copyright date. And be sure to click on the blinking square.
Symbols, Icons, Arrows and Buttons for Free The article has thousands of symbols, buttons, arrows, icons and images you will ever want to use for your web-page.
NewsFilter: Branson pledges $3B to fight global warming. Branson on global warming, Gates on AIDS -- good news, but sad that it's up to insanely-rich individuals to step up where governments are failing to act...
Working from home? Get a business bib. via core 77
Fun is the theme of the first exhibition (part of the Liverpool Biennial) from Digital Show, a new site for digital art. [more inside]
JRR Tolkien reads and sings The Lord of the Rings
Fags cause AIDS It's official.
Don Walser, RIP. If you've never heard Mr. Walser, you can find clips of the Austin country and western singer/yodeller (who frequently opened Butthole Surfers shows) here. Enjoy the great open range in the sky, Don.
Booze hound? Yer woofin' me Kitties go to the library, Can't doggies go somewhere? Wine not!
September 20, 2006
Ticke-Me Elmo X Vibrating action is so passe. The new Tickle-Me Elmo (youtube) falls on his ass, has a seizure, and then stands himself back up while making horrible grinding noises that will haunt my dreams. [more inside]
Star Diary via plep [more inside]
Smile (A Dental Drama) is as great as any comic about orthodontics can be. [more inside]
The Original Star Trek, Remastered for HDTV.
It's! Fantastic and yet. Comforting!
Familiar.
via Retro Thing
British TV Adaptations.
A little quiz about which/how British TV shows have been dumbed down adapted for a North American audience.
Which shows should be adapted? Which ones should be banished forever from PBS Britcom nights? Which ones would be unadaptable? And which ones, if adapted, would be be simply fascinating, in a perverse post-9/11 sort of way?
The Little Girl Giant [youtube] On the morning of Sunday 7th May the little girl giant woke up at Horseguards Parade in London, took a shower from the time-traveling elephant and wandered off to play in the park...
September 19, 2006
You drilled into WHAT? Lake Peigneur, Louisianna, 1980: A drilling rig in the middle of a lake drills a hole 1500 feet down into a salt mine. "Hilarity" ensues. (youtube)
When the cat is away, the mice will play.... From the BBC site: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has declared a state of emergency in Bangkok amid reports of a coup attempt.
Drop yer salmagundi ye hearties Tis talk like a pirate day, scallywags! No, not THOSE Pirates, THESE be the scurvy bilge rats we be speakin' of here.
Two siblings separated by the holocaust are reunited after 65 years. [more inside]
The Polaris Music Prize has been announced and the Canadian music journalists' top honour for this year goes to Owen Pallet's ambitious solo violin-rich post-classical pop project Final Fantasy for the album He Poos Clouds. [more inside]
September 18, 2006
First penis transplant comes unstuck A Chinese man who had the world's first penis transplant had the organ removed two weeks later because he and his wife had a "severe psychological problem" with his new penis.
The gay menace
Greensboro, NC, 1957: Based on a police informant, 32 men were arrested and tried for "unnatural relationships". The investigation really took off until prominent men in the community started appearing on the list, then suddenly there was less interest in pursuing it.
A brief, but interesting, article about this fun episode in history, found at Pandagon.
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R.E.M. reunites for their induction into Georgia Music Hall of Fame, and to push "I Feel Fine", the best of the I.R.S. years. It may be time to replace some vinyl... [more inside]
Rebuild Iraq With The Best and Brightest Loyal Neoconservatives!
A 24-year-old who had never worked in finance -- but had applied for a White House job -- was sent to reopen Baghdad's stock exchange. The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from an evangelical university for home-schooled children were tapped to manage Iraq's $13 billion budget, even though they didn't have a background in accounting.
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Tranplanted penis rejected. By wife.
September 17, 2006
"Advanced Animation" by Preston Blair. When Blair put the book together in 1947, he used the characters he had animated at Disney and MGM to illustrate the various basic principles of animation. Apparently, the rights to use some of the characters were revoked after the book was already in the stores. Publication was halted for a time, and he was forced to redraw most of the MGM characters, replacing them with generic characters of his own design. The revised edition went on to become a classic, and this first edition was forgotten.
The Art of Kim Graham. Very lifelike faces, and great geekstuff. This one's my favorite.
Comic strip artists' kit [more inside]
Die Kunst des Fechtens I
und II
Gesehen bei BibliOdyssey
September 16, 2006
"You know, I think I'd like to see a hippo on one of those." And one hundred and forty four pieces of individually painted Royal Copenhagen porcelain later, he can. [more inside]
No skinny chicks! Models that are too thin are barred from appearing on the catwalk in Spain. [more inside]
The answer MSNBC did not like - media brainwashing in action? Or production team embarrassment over the number of tinfoil hatters who believe conspiracy theories? [more inside]
Monkeys will bring you the news at ape thirty
September 15, 2006
Photos of the extremely rare, teardrop-shaped and streamlined, three wheeling 1934 Dymaxion designed by R. Buckminster Fuller and constructed by yacht maker Starling Burgess. [more inside]
Jigsaw Monkey You have 5 minutes to put the picture of the monkey together. Friday Flash Fun For Freaks! Fantastic!
WWJD? Starting your own Christian Church? You need to start here!!
Curious George: What the hey? No link, just following instructions. Deer in the headlights, etc. [more inside]
September 14, 2006
Zymurgy. It's not just a good Scrabble word. [more inside]
The Onion Scoops the Real News Again
Church Group Offers Homosexual New Life In Closet First there was this famously prescient post that is far less funny now than it was at the time of publication. However, on a lighter note, MSNBC catches up with America's Finest News Source with this titillating article about a fundamentalist preacher who says God wants you to have hot sex, within certain limitations, of course.
Also of course, the Onion beat them to it by nine years, with their classic piece about the minister of Holy Christ Almighty Lutheran church who just loves to fuck his wife.
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Do It Yourself Cell Phone Repair Learn something and save money! Oh, and your warranty is voided just for reading that. [more inside]
Xena renamed Eris
- thank Eris! I couldn't live with a planetoid named after a crappy tv character. Or, indeed, upon one.
"The distant world whose discovery prompted leading astronomers to demote Pluto from the rank of "planet" has now been given its own official name."
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Clan MacDonald of Keppoch has a new chief at last. Not everyone is happy. MacDonald of Keppoch, aka MacDonnell, aka Ranald of Lochaber, is not to be confused with the larger Clan MacDonald, of which it is one branch.
September 13, 2006
The late Syd Barrett's colourfully-decorated home is up for sale. According to the estate agent, the home "provides an excellent opportunity for sympathetic improvement and updating".
The New Naysayers. A look at the atheism of Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Richard Dawkins. Plus, a nifty list of famous atheists, agnostics, and other skeptics.
NewsFilter: Montreal Shootings. Details still sketchy, but it seems two gunmen killed four and injured another 12 at Montreal's Dawson College, in an attack which recalls some painful memories for the city.
Wacky Brazilian Pay Phones Via Core 77
Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Dream of you!
Curious George: ever dream of a fellow simian? I have never met him, nor have I ever seen him. But last night I had a funny dream of our best Pete ever.
To continue today's Curious George theme...
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Curious Ramblin' George: help name my rocketship In five short weeks I'll be rolling down my driveway for a road trip of unknown duration and no specific destination (though I have a few general time/space coordinates plotted). This spring I picked up my new home on wheels, a 36-foot trailer made in 1951 by the Spartan Aircraft Co. A rig like this deserves a name, but I'm having trouble coming up with something that fits. A little Heinlien, a little Jules Verne, a little Homer (not necessarily Simpson). I'd sure love to hear your suggestions. [more inside]
Curious George - Halloween My roommates and I need your help monkeys! [more inside]
September 12, 2006
Official Seal Generator. Christmas came early again. Now go and play.
WordHoard. A philological tool. The WordHoard project is named after an Old English phrase for the verbal treasure 'unlocked' by a wise speaker. It applies to highly canonical literary texts the insights and techniques of corpus linguistics, that is to say, the empirical and computer-assisted study of large bodies of written texts or transcribed speech.
Cut 'em out and fold 'em up
in all of their intricate glory. Those who can be trusted with scissors can make The Globe Theater, the Taj Mahal, or the crazily complex 3-page Mississippi Riverboat
(Warning, sappy e-cards also thrown in.)
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September 11, 2006
Things are good. (crossposted to MeFi)
Curious George: Love Advice So, we've all been in love, all have relationships. Some good, some bad. And most of us have needed advice at some point or another. What general relationship advice can you offer to your fellow monkies? [more inside]
The Ballad of Steve Malloy An interactive poem.
Look and Learn This may only appeal to British Mofites aged 45 - 55 (which probably = me), but thousands of images from 'Look and Learn' are accessible here. Unfortunately IPC has retained the rights to the Trigan Empire, the bit people actually wanted to read. [more inside]
September 10, 2006
Microsite at the V&A to accompany their upcoming Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. Jolly nice, if I say so myself.
"I don't think so..." Remember the Numa Numa song? Well, there's a sequel that's just been released, featuring Gary Brolsma himself. The verdict, courtesy of CollegeHumor.com: "Big budget sequels lacking the charm of the original aren't just for Hollywood anymore."
Curious George: Media Coverage of 9/11 Although 24% of those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 were not white, with all the news coverage the 5th anniversary of the events, I've yet to see anyone but white people interviewed. So is this poor reporting or have I just not been paying attention? Have you seen anyone but white family members interviewed?
Average Homeboy Awesome rap action.
September 09, 2006
Closer. Spock on Kirk, YouTube video. Somewhat NSFW.
Russian street race photos! Do you think pine or birch would make a better spoiler for my sweet ride? (I love English Russia)
Politically incorrect alphabet
September 08, 2006
Foreign Aid Usless
Forget foreign aid, a report released Thursday by the Fraser Institute says, what poor countries really need is open markets, economic freedom and a point in the right direction.
...the Vancouver-based right-wing think tank says foreign aid perpetuates a spiral of poverty, with poor nations left to rely on more hand-outs.
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The Royalist There are some who doubt Prince William and Kate are even 'together', let alone in love. But now come a new set of pictures, taken at 3am this morning, showing the royal couple clearly adore each other.
Go on da Dan! "Dan Clancy" (QT) is Pat Shortt, Killinaskully's resident know it all. Pat Shortt is one of Ireland's most famous comedians, but sadly most of you have probably never heard of him. He scored a big hit with his song "Jumbo Breakfast Roll" (mp3); an ode to Ireland's favorite breakfast treat, (note: if eaten; it will most likey kill you). On Killinaskully Pat is cast as most of the characters of this fictional Tipperary village. Here are some more clips for your amusement. Happy Friday.
Ewe'll be sorry Yes, you really, really will.
8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons The Smurfs thought us communism works. Scooby Doo taught us t trust no one. Things to carry with you always, really.
Music at Aurgasm, and here, at The Hype Machine, and here, at kexp.com, and here, at e-mule. [more inside]
September 07, 2006
CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DISTRIBUTE Good for a brief chuckle. (Or corporate espionage.) via bb.
Curious George: Serif font. Is there a serif font that doesn't look as boring as Zurich? I'm doing parts of the back cover of a short-run nonfiction book in Zurich Condensed and it's coming across as really bland.
Toronto's Free Wi-Fi
Toronto Hydro rolled out the city's free Wi-Fi - or wireless Internet access - Wednesday morning. The service will be free for six months - and will allow people wireless access to the World Wide Web throughout the downtown rather than solely at pre-existing Wi-Fi hotspots, generally cafes and restaurants.
Curious, George: What is in a name? DJ who? [more inside]
Femtroopers! Hot Dang!
My House is Worthless Hi, all. Two sites, and I'm too distraught to link: zillow.com and patrick.net. According to their reports, my house has just tanked in value. [more inside]
Playstation 3 in PAL regions delayed. On top of that, Sony is reducing their expected units produced to only half of their originaly intended numbers for North America and Japan. [more inside]
Curious George: Defining Extingencies Can anybody define extingencies or extingency for me? Or tell me if they are even real words? [more inside]
September 06, 2006
What's it all about? From throat to colon.
Valerie Plame Was In Charge of "Finding" WMDs In Iraq.
The Bush administration didn't get the lies they wanted, so they ruined her career because they could.
Booorrriiiing.
Also includes crass, evil, crooked, self-defeating and possibly treasonous. YMMV.
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Verbs Intellectual Property Microsoft owns doing words. Do you have your licence to speak? (Via Slashdot.) [more inside]
25% of Russians have rumpty pumpty while driving. Amongst other things. (SFW)
It's a boy.... Princess Kiko of the Japanese Royal household gave birth by Caesarean section this morning. It is likely that he will be named as the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. But the debate continues... [more inside]
Toronto Meetup!! Bump the Toronto Meetup this weekend. More inside-->
September 05, 2006
Everyday. (youtube-video with sound) [more inside]
Celebrity worship. Is it programmed into your DNA? Is it addictive? Is it good for you -- especially if you're a teen? Is it a savage new religion? What's the psychology behind it? Is it a screwing up the academic world? Does it signify cultural decline and confusion?
A hundred dead elephants
were recently spotted by Mike Fay on an aerial survey just outside the borders of Zakouma National Park in southeastern Chad. Fueled in part by an upswing in ivory demand from China and the crisis in nearby Dafur.
See also, homunculus' fine post.
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Banksy does Paris... He's at it again. Previously mentioned here, here, and here, his latest project has been to abduct, remix (m4a audio) and reissue (embedded YT video) Paris Hilton's new CD. (Some images/content may be NSFW).
School Superintendent appears semi-nude in calendar, said to be in bad form.
""It was done to raise some money, and he was asked to do it," Irlbeck said. "We have told him as a board that he needs to do things in the community." Oh, the jokes, they write themselves. [via obscurestore]
How It Works...The Computer Thanks, dng!
September 04, 2006
Traumatic eclipse of the heart Thus proving that there is nothing wrong with Belgian taste. [more inside]
We have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy. So claims Dublin-based Steorn Ltd., issuing a challenge to physicists to test the technology. [more inside]
Pics and descriptions of the World's greatest SuperDuper Heros Superheroes from around the world. Down with Spidey, up with Super Lopez!
Crikey! A stingray finishes the job for the crocs The Age is reporting that Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin has been fatally bested by a stingray. [more inside]
The Blogofractal - From the makers of the Blogosphere, Blogocube, and Blogodrome.
Jeffs's cultists debate Warren Jeffs's defenders and apostates discuss his capture and what that means for the cult he heads.
Chengdu. I stumbled on this when searching for pandas, and found it to be a bleak, intimate look at scenes in the remote Sichuan province of south central China, adjacent to Tibet and away from the booming eastern districts that manufacture everything in your house. Yes, I found the pandas, but the other stuff was more compelling.
ART WORKS! This man's work is nothing short of brilliance, and very beautiful.
September 03, 2006
When design meets food. People have been concerned with the design of food for quite some time. But usually it's just about making something look good. Now the Dutch tradition of conceptual design is coming to the world of food. Not that it doesn't look nice, though.
"We’re still open to the idea of a letter [to the editor],
.... but we will not publish a letter that implies any sort of misbehavior by [our reporter] Ms. Flanagan."
After the New Yorker published an article on P.K. Travers (the author of Mary Poppins), Victoria Lawson wrote to them pointing out how their reporter had relied heavily on her biography of Travers (and on documentaries based on that biography), and yet made almost no acknowledgement of that fact within her article.
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The Royalist Former royal butler Paul Burrell reveals a secret Princess Diana told him two days before she died.
September 02, 2006
MuppetWiki. Read about everything Jim Henson- and Muppet-related, like The Muppet Show's musical legacy (Alice Cooper, Dizzy Gillespie, and Diana Ross, among others, all hosted episodes), or how Prairie Dawn was one of many "Little Anything Muppets," or the evolution of "Mahna Mahna," or the many international incarnations of Sesame Street. [more inside]
Curious George: Acoustic Song List? A friend of mine - Joey Joe Jones, Jr.-Shabbadoo? Anyway, he's compiling a list of songs to play on acoustic guitar. Thoughts? [more inside]
The promise of online dining has been partially fulfilled. If you live in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pensylvania or Illinois, I have a very exciting announcement. Foodler is a big honking list of local restaurants who will deliver food to you (and another list for take-out). Similar things have existed in the past but foodler works really well. Sign up, give them your zip code, choose a place to eat (here in Cambridge MA I can get everything from American to Bangladeshi to Desserts, Italian and Thai) clickey clikey and in half an hour chop stickey! Also has reviews and favorites. Totally awesome if you're lazy. The interface is great, the selection is wonderful, and the restaurants that have signed on really seem to 'get it'. [more inside]
The Vietnam Syndrome. "In the 1960s, the United States blanketed the Mekong River delta with Agent Orange, a chemical defoliant more devastating than napalm. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, the poisoned legacy lives on in the children whose deformities it is said to have caused." Photo essay by James Nachtwey, written essay by Christopher Hitchens. [Via C&L.]
September 01, 2006
Mao Removed From History Books
Nearly overnight the country's most prosperous schools have shelved the Marxist template that had dominated standard history texts since the 1950s.
"The new history is less ideological, and that suits the political goals of today."
Pilfered, as a stale crust of bread, from mr_crash_davis and The Blue
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Jitsu!
Once a day, for 24 hours, we showcase something new and exciting in this beautiful world. Something you may have never seen before. Then it's gone, never to be seen again!
It could be new game, an awesome book, a great video—who knows!?? Something that's useful, fun, and hopefully new to you.
Chet Baker Tributes. Today, a new jazz festival starts in T.O. in honour of Chet Baker, to raise funds for a Foundation run by his widow Carol. Also, a biopic will soon come out, even if it can never be as transfixing as the real thing.
Behind the Scenes at Jay-Z's 10th Anniversary Concert Check out Jay-Z's 10th Anniversay Concert, honoring his first album "Reasonable Doubt"
Browzar Surf in complete privacy, thanks to the absence of those really cool "features" that everyone I know turns off anyway. [more inside]
The Royalist Amusing story about the Queen's cousin and his wife being seated next to the toilets by staff on a cheap easyJet flight from Majorca.
9/11 commemorative coin. Lavishly clad in gleaming silver miraculously recovered from a bank vault found under tons of debris at Ground Zero! May well be among the most historically meaningful collectibles you will ever own!
Airfix kit makers in nosedive after parent company's crash [more inside]
Drinking juice can help prevent Alzheimer's. So drink yer juiceys monkeys. But also further to the cool, recent discussion on scientific method, this is an example of press coverage of science. How good is it? [more inside]
