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“Dust My Broom”: The Story of a Song
posted by flapjax at midnite at 11:02 PM PST - 13 comments

Genesis, fronted by Peter Gabriel, live in 1973, presented in full 1080p high definition. [more inside]
posted by anazgnos at 10:55 PM PST - 58 comments

Heinrich Caesar Berann is known as the father of the modern cartographic panorama and is also credited as the most prolific panorama artist ever. His style and work could be credited with the lasting appeal of stylized panoramic maps that often feature exaggerated or distorted features as the preferred map type for ski resorts and trails (PDF) but Berann's true passion was art, as seen in these collections of his paintings and drawings found on the tribute site maintained by his grandson, Matthias Troyer. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 9:43 PM PST - 6 comments

Valibation: It isn't in you, it is you. NSFW short film in which a man's addiction to his smartphone gets a bit out of hand. [Via]
posted by homunculus at 6:20 PM PST - 30 comments

Bug Art - Steven Kutcher creates paintings using bugs as living brushes. He's probably more noted as the working entomologist on a number of Hollywood films, including Arachnophobia. Bonus: Steven's E-Z Bug Collector Method (via FLUXO)
posted by madamjujujive at 5:48 PM PST - 5 comments

Neil from thehippyseedcompany.com loves to taste the really hot peppers they grow with friends and family, film the results and review. (MLYT) thehippyseedcompany's YT channel [more inside]
posted by schyler523 at 4:39 PM PST - 21 comments

Bomber, by Len Deighton - the first novel ever written on a word processor.
posted by Artw at 4:28 PM PST - 18 comments

Repo Man is one of the most beloved cult movies of all time. But did you know that director Alex Cox made a couple of sequels? Well, he didn't. Except he sort of did... [more inside]
posted by Ursula Hitler at 3:59 PM PST - 61 comments

Hey guys, remember that old show "Fraggle Rock?" And, and you know that recently-released movie The Hobbit? Well, why not combine the two?
posted by JHarris at 2:36 PM PST - 8 comments

This past Friday, the ground opened up and swallowed Jeff Bush of Seffner, Florida. He may never be found.
Sinkholes are common in the state of Florida, due to the gradual creation of caverns in the limestone that underlies the entire state. How much of a role can human development play in their formation?
posted by Countess Elena at 1:35 PM PST - 96 comments

Laura Bifano (previously) has not seen a Pokémon since she was 12, but she's going to draw them anyway. Sometimes she has help from her followers, who describe the characters they want her to draw. Noelle Stevenson (previously) did a similar project last year.
posted by capricorn at 1:02 PM PST - 12 comments

But he was also attracted to the dark side of life: the filth of the prisons, the opium dens, the slaughterhouses and the execution sites. In June, he headed for a particularly gruesome destination: New Caledonia, an enormous prison at the time.

Some 8,000 prisoners lived on the island, crammed into 50-man barracks. Already when he arrived in the port, the future heir to the throne gazed into the grim faces of criminals building quay walls and breaking rocks. Others toiled in the nickel mines. If an inmate managed to escape into the forest, he was usually killed by the natives. Every fugitive brought a 25-franc reward.

Spiegel covers a newly published diary of Franz Ferdinand, the man later killed by the "shot heard 'round the world".
posted by brony at 11:43 AM PST - 42 comments

Are interns the slave economy of the US? Internships are increasingly becoming industry standards; the time college graduates work for little or nothing and get the valuable experience they need to get a "real" job. In the meantime, they are saddled with student loans they can't pay and living with mom and dad.
posted by DoubleLune at 11:19 AM PST - 179 comments

A few minutes of empathy "CEO Toby Cosgrove, MD, shared this video, titled "Empathy," with the Cleveland Clinic staff during his 2013 State of the Clinic address on Feb. 27, 2013." SLYT
posted by daisyace at 10:59 AM PST - 26 comments

A brief history of the Chinese growth model [note: not so brief] - "the Chinese development model is an old one, and can trace its roots at least as far back as the 'American System' of the 1820s and 1830s. This 'system' was itself based primarily on the works of the brilliant first US Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton..." [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 10:40 AM PST - 6 comments

A new book by author Haruki Murakami will be released this April, his publishers have announced. This will be his first in three years since 1Q84 (in the running for, but then passed up, for the Nobel Prize). Although not even the title of the novel is yet known, this hasn't stopped fans from speculating on what it will be about - with or without the aid of bingo.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 10:13 AM PST - 26 comments

Open States, the latest project of the nonprofit Sunlight Foundation, is an easy to navigate comprehensive database of activities from all state capitols that makes it easy to find your state lawmaker, review their votes, search for legislation, track bills and much more.
posted by joedan at 10:06 AM PST - 8 comments

Here is what a bunch of folks seem to think are the 74 Things Every Great Star Wars Movie Needs.
posted by timsteil at 9:39 AM PST - 62 comments

"The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking" [NYTimes.com]

"The researchers have cataloged some 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during Hitler’s reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945."

posted by Fizz at 9:21 AM PST - 61 comments

Hard times and hockey on the Nashville Highway
posted by Groundhog Week at 8:25 AM PST - 8 comments

Razor clam digging with Captain Milt Gudgell. Follow Milt as he takes you clam digging on the Long Beach Peninsula. [more inside]
posted by rebent at 8:25 AM PST - 14 comments

In November of 2011, Jaiyah Saelua, a center back for American Samoa, became the first transgendered individual to participate in a World Cup qualifier. [more inside]
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 7:29 AM PST - 17 comments

Kitties like to clean things (mlyt)
posted by donut_princess at 7:02 AM PST - 39 comments

BDSM is so mainstream, it's ridiculous. James Franco's just made two films (arguably NSFW) about it. It's on Portlandia (same). We all know why.
posted by xowie at 6:50 AM PST - 23 comments

Charlie Munger (prev) gave an oft referenced talk at Harvard in 1995. Here's the full audio. [more inside]
posted by readery at 6:25 AM PST - 4 comments

A short tale about love and bad cooking.
posted by tigrefacile at 5:59 AM PST - 13 comments

Canada's Harper government has introduced an ACTA compliance bill at the behest of the USTR, despite the treaty being dead elsewhere. [more inside]
posted by jeffburdges at 5:12 AM PST - 18 comments

"If nothing else, "Argo" is an exercise in American exceptionalism - perhaps the most dangerous fiction that permeates our entire society and sense of identity. It reinvents history in order to mine a tale of triumph from an unmitigated defeat. The hostage crisis, which lasted 444 days and destroyed an American presidency, was a failure and an embarrassment for Americans. The United States government and media has spent the last three decades tirelessly exacting revenge on Iran for what happened." -- Nima Shirazi explains what's wrong with Argo's depiction of the Iranian hostage crisis.
posted by MartinWisse at 3:20 AM PST - 111 comments

In Malaysia's continuing efforts to persecute and combat the "deviant wave" of homosexuality, after banning a LGBT rights event claiming a threat to "public order" and training parents and educators to spot "LGBT behaviors" in school children for possible entry into a gay rehabilitation centre, they are now producing and presenting Asmara Songsang, a musical where LGBT people live lives fuelled by sex, drugs, and rock and roll...only to be struck by lightning and go straight or die. [more inside]
posted by divabat at 2:53 AM PST - 30 comments