January 2008
Smashing Darling - Your House for Indie Fashion →
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Blogonize - Finally, an easy to use innovative... →
Sex & the Single Stiletto →
She skewers public figures in the most personal terms, calling Bill Clinton “the Animal House president,” Al Gore “a teacher’s pet from hell” and George W. Bush the “Boy Emperor.”
The FAIL Blog →
i lol’ed.
frontline: twentieth anniversary: watch FRONTLINE... →
The two whose abortions are shown in this film are single, white and young — as are the majority of women who have had abortions in the United States over the past 30 years.
Smithsonian Magazine | Arts & Culture | Being... →
How the pathbreaking comedian got his act together
A Critic at Large: A Fine Romance: Reporting &... →
In the screwball comedies, the woman doesnât ask her man to âgrow up.â She wants to pull him into some sort of ridiculous adventure. She has to grow up, and he has to get looseâthe opposite of the current pattern.
M+B Gallery Los Angeles →
posed photos of celebrity lookalikes
Rummaging in the Governments attic:... →
FOIAed shiz from our very own government - nice.
Brain, Brain Information, Facts, News, Photos --... →
National Geographic has a quick and helpful interactive introduction to the human brain, explaining in simple terms the brain’s anatomy, some common diseases, and also which parts of the brain are lit up by smells, light, sound, romance, and other stimuli
SilverJacket: Just Say Maybe →
I wrote children’s science books for two years but never wrote one as fun or useful as this. It explains to 9-year-olds everything from neurons to shamans. Rad!
30 Women Hate On Hillary In 30 Different Ways... →
Love her or loathe her, people feel the need to discuss presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s life (her accessories, her hair, her lipstick, her husband, her tear ducts) with fervor, dedication, and, often, a great deal of prejudice. In the new anthology Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary, thirty women writers muse on everything from whether Clinton is a cat or a dog person, why she wears...
Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and... →
It’s sadly clear that our current leaders have little understanding of technology and why it’s important to our economy and culture. That has to change.
We’ve been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months to get them to state, on record, their positions on ten key technology related issues (Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis...
the wurst gallery →
artists’ reinterpretations of thrift store art
A Neurologist’s Notebook: The Abyss: Reporting &... →
He was left with a memory span of only secondsâthe most devastating case of amnesia ever recorded. New events and experiences were effaced almost instantly.
Below the Fold: Out-niggering and Our First “Black... →
by Michael Blim George Wallace reflecting on his first and unsuccessful run for governor of Alabama in 1958 defeat, made a remarkable vow. “Well, boys,” he said, “no other son of a bitch will ever out-nigger me again.” Needless to say, no one did, as you might recall. Perhaps until now. Bill Clinton, self-proclaimed and rather foolishly acclaimed by some who shall go nameless as the first...
village voice > film > 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2... →
Among other things, 2007 was the year of the abortionâor perhaps we should say the abortion-not.
Torrent’Em →
A Reporter at Large: The Jefferson Bottles:... →
How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?
Playing to Type →
A revolution in typeface design has led to everything from more-legible newspapers and cell-phone displays to extra-tacky wedding invitations.
Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page →
It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Flickr: The sleeveface Pool →
Linux.com :: Unshaking and refocusing your photos →
gimp tutorial on bettering photos
Cookthink →
what am i craving?
Design Police | Bring bad design to justice. →
KERN THIS!!
"Who goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson (Harper's... →
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of oneâs acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi….
OnlyWire: The Only BookMarklet You'll Ever Need! →
post to multiple social bookmarking sites
ReadBurner →
what’s shared on googlereader
FuzzFind Web Search →
web search engine mashup that combines the power of the major
search engines and social bookmarking sites.
Black Americans' love for Bill Clinton is built on... →
Hillary Clinton’s campaign deployed President Bill Clinton in South Carolina for the specific purpose of delivering the black vote, aiming to remind African-Americans of the good times when Clinton was president. Which raises the question: Why do so many people think the Clinton years were good times for black America? [more …]
Big Think - We Are What You Think →
“youtube for thinkers.” experts on their expertise. meh?
http://whitewhine.tumblr.com/ →
white people bitching. hilar.
Having to clean up after the performance artists... →
Foot tattoos: Morally offensive? Ampersand links to this interesting article by Steven Pinker about how there’s five moral themes that seem to exist cross-culture, and might be biologically “programmed”. (I hate the word “programmed”, even if there’s a legitimate reason to think something is inborn to us. It implies both that the tendency is not malleable and that the culture-specific...
NYPL Digital Gallery | Home →
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photogr
igThemer v0.1a →
igThemer is a tool to automagically make iGoogle themes using the new API
The Next Generation Of Anti-Piracy Legislation... →
As discussed a few months ago by Tom Lee, misguided anti-piracy requirements for universities found their way into the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007. Mostly, the nearly 800-page bill rehashes existing legislation regarding federal financial aid. However, a section titled “Campus-based Digital Theft Prevention” provides an unfortunate glimpse at what could be the new...
To cut a long story short | Features | Guardian... →
in a world of short attention spans - in a time when the entire movie industry is hopelessly commercially compromised anyway - only one part of a trip to the cinema remains a guaranteed pleasure.
Fashionsnap.com | Street Fashion Photo →
Damn Interesting » The Unburdened Mind →
Differences in culture, gender, personality, and social status all create empathy gaps that can seem almost unfathomable, but none of these is as fundamental a divide as the one that exists between an individual with a conscience and one without. The psyc
Bloggers for Choice! →
Here are some great Blog for Choice posts to start your morning off… Lawyers, Guns and Money: “While it’s true that it’s important to vote “pro-choice,” I want to write about more than that — why it’s important to vote for someone who really understands what it means to want reproductive justice. In order to understand this, it’s important to...
The Forgiveness Project →
The Forgiveness Project works at a local, national and international level to help build a future free of conflict and violence by healing the wounds of the past. By collecting and sharing peopleâs stories, and delivering outreach programmes, The Forgiv
First-ever electronica album released under... →
The first-ever Creative Commons-licensed electronica album that is backed by a collecting society has just been released. This means that the artist will get paid for radio-play and live performance (which the collecting societies get money for), a major breakthrough since many collecting societies have been hostile to CC, telling members that if they adopt CC licenses, they can kiss their...
Robot World News ‽ Ms. Pac-Man Plays Herself →
80 Million Tiny Images →
The Amateur Gourmet →
Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) - Home... →
The Instituteâs mission is to provide the conceptual framework, strategies and information to aid the creation of ecologically sound and economically equitable communities.
AI learns to play Ms Pac Man →
Learning to Play Using Low-Complexity Rule-Based Policies: Illustrations through Ms. Pac-Man, a new paper published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 30 details a very successful experiment in teaching an AI to play Ms Pac Man:
The researchers had agents play 50 games using different RL methods. They found that methods utilizing the cross-entropy policies performed better than...
Antidepressants Under Scrutiny Over Efficacy -... →
The effectiveness of a dozen popular antidepressants has been exaggerated by selective publication of favorable results, according to a review of unpublished data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration.
The Walrus >> Media >> Apocalypse Soon >> E-book... →
Book publishing is a dinosaur industry, and thereâs a big scary meteor on the way.
toonlet: web-comic blogging in minutes →