November 20
Luxirare is about killer clothes and fine cuisine. Recent features include:
Thanksgiving Part I, creating a thanksgiving meal that is less about an abundance of leftovers and instead maximizing the visual appeal of “thanksgiving” symbols like the pumpkin, as a dessert; and
Pie Pops, for those who want to eat pie, but don’t want a whole slice—who want to try multiple flavors, but for just a bite or two, then move onto another.
posted by netbros at 4:47 PM - 17 comments
The University of East Anglia's
Climatic Research Unit suffered a
security breach this week. Hackers made off with thousands of email correspondences between some of the world's top climate scientists, and posted them to the Internet
1.
Tony Hake has posted an
article at The Examiner, highlighting what he feels are the most egregious examples of scientists manipulating and hiding data to support the established theories about Climate Change. Some of the scientists involved
counter that the quotes are taken out of context, and that "People are using language used in science and interpreting it in a completely different way".
1 I'm not going to link to them, but the Examiner article mentions where to get them.
posted by Who_Am_I at 4:14 PM - 35 comments Shifting Blame Is Socially Contagious. Merely observing someone publicly blame an individual in an organization for a problem -- even when the target is innocent -- greatly increases the odds that the practice of blaming others will spread with the tenacity of the H1N1 flu, according to new research.
"When we see others protecting their egos, we become defensive too," says Fast, the study's lead author. "We then try to protect our own self-image by blaming others for our mistakes, which may feel good in the moment." He adds that in the long run, such behavior could hurt one's reputation and be destructive to an organization and further to our society as a whole.
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posted by VikingSword at 10:50 AM - 27 comments
Dell Hymes, a giant of sociolinguistic theory, has died. "He didn't have much patience for wasting your time in academic endeavors that wouldn't have a direct relevance for the world and for righting some of the inequalities in the world," [Dr. Nancy] Hornberger said. Or as Dr. Hymes himself put it, describing his approach to anthropology: "I am always interested in combating elitism and narrowness. . . . The justification for the existence of anthropology is to find out about the world, not produce third-rate philosophers."
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posted by fourcheesemac at 9:49 AM - 13 comments
Mass: We Pray is an exciting new project from Boston based game developer Prayer Works Interactive.
Watch the trailer for examples of the 24 different services you and your family can participate in. Don't listen to the sites that
claim this is a
hoax. Preordering begins today!
posted by scrutiny at 4:44 AM - 45 comments
November 19
When Jonathan Coulton scheduled his October 10th show at Chicago's Park West, he didn't know that fellow nerd-rockers
They Might Be Giants were playing on the same day, at the same time, in the nearby Vic Theater. Not only that, the Giants were performing their hit 1990 album
Flood in its entirety. In a
tongue-in-cheek effort to make sure somebody showed up for his performace, Coulton, along with
Paul and Storm, decided to perform their own take on Flood. Hightlights included absolutely no accordion ("
that's a selling point"). In
nine parts on YouTube.
Audio recorded directly from the venue's soundboard.
posted by indyz at 3:03 PM - 77 comments Kyle Cassidy's In The Hive "As fine art photography increasingly at times adopts the tropes of snapshots I often find myself in galleries wondering if the artist didn't possess some sort of faulty camera whose shutter tripped randomly... I asked twenty-three people scattered around the U.S. to wear their cameras everywhere and over the next 48 hours I sent eleven text messages at random intervals asking everyone to take a photo of whatever was in front of them at that moment."
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posted by muddgirl at 1:03 PM - 13 comments
It has been nearly a year since the Mumbai terror attacks. Journalist Jason Motlagh has written a four part article about them for The Virginia Quarterly Review.
The first part is about the initial attacks and the history of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist organization responsible.
Part two continues describing the events of the first night as well as police and media responses.
The third is about the events of the second day and includes intercepted phonecalls between the gunmen and their handlers as well as recounting the initial interrogation of the sole terrorist captured alive.
The last part is about the last day of the attacks and the aftermath. The article has a large number of photographs and is a harrowing read.
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