September 2009
Introducing Compubeaver & Text-O-Possum
kottke:
Kasey McMahon decided to combine an interest in taxidermy with her PC. Fearing that the natural world is being replaced by technology, the artist installed a working computer inside of an idle beaver… After three months of work, the result was Compubeaver, followed up by its accessory, Text-o-Possum, a stuffed possum that’s equipped with a laser in its back leg that projects...
Future of the Left - Lapsed Catholics
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kittykittybangbang:
Defamer:
The petition has now been signed by more than 70 film industry luminaries, including Polanski’s fellow directors Michael Mann, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, Julian Schnabel, the Dardenne brothers, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, Walter Salles and Jonathan Demme. Actors Tilda Swinton, Monica Bellucci and Asia Argento, as...
Last Last Chance →
In which the intrepid blogger/designer (Henry Yee) shows the process by which he designed the cover of Last Last Chance, “an apocalyptic comic novel about a deadly outbreak of plague, reincarnation, narcotics recovery, a family in trouble, and some Norse mythology.” I think it’s pretty neat that part of his inspiration for a very modern high-minded design includes a panel from...
Watchjoemuto:
This Transformers digital short was the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal premiere of SNL.
Obviously the writers are using up all their funny for the Thursday Update specials.
I was thinking the same thing (though I also liked Will Forte’s weird SWAT dude and the Bladdivan ad). But that was the worst episode of SNL in years, worse somehow than the Michael Phelps episode,...
Monday T-Shirt Spectacular
I admit it, I’m a sucker for those shirt-a-day sites, even if I pretty rarely bite. And this morning, there were two that caught my eye, both involving the Death Star. What are the odds?
Darkside of Disco (Uneetee $12)
Darth Tut (TeeFury $9+$2)
In other daily tee news, Woot! has attempted to jump on the bacon bandwagon, and would have managed a solid if uninspired winner if the...
Daddy Dialectic: Fatherhood and the Anxiety of... →
A lovely piece of writing.
“A family is a group of people traveling at different velocities, some of them accelerating and some of them slowing down, some departing for a while to other time zones, but all of them usually circling back. For stretches of time, our family has been a uniform frame of reference, something against which I gauged the movement of other things.”
Robert Fisk: Mangling everything in its path,... →
Uninsured 22-Year-Old Boehner Constituent Dies... →
Lover! - Booger in my Asshole
the only thing...
Smithsonian Museum Day 2009 →
Free admission to hundreds of museums this Saturday, September 26.
Slate: The birth of Born To Run →
Louis Masur stuffs a trunkload of anecdotes and factoids into this delightfully terse portrait of Bruce’s big moment.
Bigger Than Jesus →
An awesome New Yorker piece from a couple of weeks ago I’d missed until today:
Today is 9/9/09, and besides being the devil’s upside-down birthday, it is also the release date of The Beatles: Rock Band. Here’s what New York Times had to say about the landmark video game:
The Beatles: Rock Band is nothing less than a cultural watershed, one that may prove only slightly less influential...
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
– Anatole France
I'mma let you finish...
BUT THIS EPISODE OF MAD MEN IS THE BEST HOUR OF TELEVISION OF ALL TIME.
OF ALL TIME!
WatchGhana In Fog by Paul Octavious
Sublime. Worth watching in HD.
via coudal
Andy Ihnatko: Microsoft's Zune HD is a nifty media... →
This is the first thing I’ve ever read that made me actually consider a Zune.
Previously, when I would wag my finger at my broken or disfunctioning iPod and threaten to replace it with a Zune, it was an impotent and sad little joke. Nobody ever laughed. Maybe now, when I get tired of Apple’s hegemonic dominance and threaten to walk away, I’ll mean it.
Watch“In Obama’s America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, ‘Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on… I wonder if Obama’s going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard.”
Andrew Sullivan
Limbaugh will enjoy the scorn. But he’s a disgusting opportunist and racist....
In (Kinda) Defense of BaucusCare
Many, like Ezra Klein, have done a great job pointing out some of the major flaws in Baucus’s Bill, but I am really glad that Ron Brownstein at The Atlantic penned this long post of some of it’s upsides.
I think it is telling, and worrisome, that both liberals and conservatives have become so knee-jerk about health care reform — it’s either totally not worth doing unless...
Top 10 Doctored Photos (Time Magazine Slideshow) →
