Archive for May, 2009
May 31, 2009 at 10:31 pm · Filed under 9100
If you’ve been following the Jared Diamond/New Yorker controversy, or my ongoing posts on journalism vs. blogging (here, here, here, here, here), you might be intrigued by this conversation about the culture of fact-checking in journalism, between journalism professor Jay Rosen and programmer Dave Winer, in their podcast series Rebooting the News. Consider this riddle: how is fact-checking in journalism like (or unlike) debugging a computer program?
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Original post by Jessica Palmer none@example.com
May 31, 2009 at 9:48 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
I looked back through the archives and I don’t think this is a repost, but even if it is, it’s probably worth it. It’s Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart” but with lyrics that describe what’s going on in the video. And, wow, I had never seen this actual video. I had no idea “Total Eclipse of the Heart” had such a pedophile theme going on.
Other literal videos include Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”, A-Ha’s “Take On Me”, and Starship’s “We Built This City,” but I think Total Eclipse is definitely the best.
Original post by Stacy
May 31, 2009 at 5:32 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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This promotional video from the European Research Commission uses a dance party to explain how basic chemical compounds are formed.
Via The Presurfer
Original post by John
May 31, 2009 at 4:43 pm · Filed under 2510
When one thinks of a heroin user, thoughts most often come to mind of a person living in squalor in a big metropolitan city or that of an artsy, poetic hipster (while there are many literary works on the life of heroin users, my all-time favorite is Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical account written by Jim Carroll during the ages of 12 to 15. From this description of Carroll’s two works on his life with heroin at the catholicboy.com website of Carroll scholar, Dr Cassie Carter: “After reading about 30 pages of the Diaries, [Jack] Kerouac stated that ‘at the age of 13, Jim Carroll writes better prose than 89 per cent of the novelists working today’”
And when one thinks of drug problems in place like Ohio or Iowa, clandestine synthesis of the drug in trailers is usually what I first think of.
These notions are shattered on the front page of [...]
Original post by Abel Pharmboy none@example.com
May 31, 2009 at 3:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Brazilian artist Breno Pineschi of Hardcuore had a little fun with this Suco de Laranja (orange juice) video clip. All you need to make a funky electronic music are fresh oranges, some melba toast and a dash of humor.
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Original post by Alex
May 31, 2009 at 3:03 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Taking a look at Seb Lester’s work reminds me how much I enjoy typographical art. This one above, The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword, is available as a limited edition print at I Love Typography.
Link - via Drawn!
Original post by Alex
May 31, 2009 at 3:02 pm · Filed under 9066
If the unknown soldier has a tomb, then what about the unknown washerwoman? Here’s a whimsical art installation titled Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman (2005) by Bulgarian artist Pravdoliub Ivanov: Link - via VVORK
Original post by Alex
May 31, 2009 at 3:02 pm · Filed under 9068
Jim is a skull artist. And yes, that means he turns skulls (real or not? I don’t know) into works of art. Right now, he’s really, really into ropes: Link - via I Want Your Skull
Original post by Alex
May 31, 2009 at 3:00 pm · Filed under 9070
Peter Locke created a set of colored magnets called Motifo that act as giant pixels to turn your fridge into a works of art:
Each mosaic design has been specially crafted to use the same combination of pieces, so every mosaic can be made with the 1296 pieces included in each motifo pack. If you want to create a new design, just rearrange the pieces.
If I’m not afraid that they’d swallow the small pieces outright, this would be a blast for my kids! Link - via Funfurde
Original post by Alex
May 31, 2009 at 2:46 pm · Filed under 9076
In the view of New Scientist journalist Amanda Gefter, The Discovery Institute, high priests of Creationism as an allegedly rational enterprise, aren’t really worried about Richard Dawkins. Presumably he’s just a great fund raising device for them. The one who really scares the BeJesus out of them is biologist Francis Collins, the evangelical Christian rumored to be Obama’s choice as next Director of NIH:
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