Why No More 9/11s? An interactive inquiry about why America hasn't been attacked again.
posted by homunculus at 11:37 PM PST - 60 comments

The thermal time hypothesis. [more inside]
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 10:54 PM PST - 36 comments

Computer data storage through the ages. From the punch card to the cassette drive to the Jaz, and much more.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:47 PM PST - 57 comments

Saturday Morning Watchmen Let the Watchmen weekend begin!
posted by HuronBob at 6:28 PM PST - 128 comments

As patrons begin to fill a room decorated with toy monkeys, beer posters and a silver disco ball, Mr. Seaberry emerges in a startling suit of red with white pinstripes and a snazzy white hat, and smoking a cheroot. “Po’ Monkey is all anybody ever called me since I was little,” he said. “I don’t know why, except I was poor for sure.” Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey's Lounge is one of the last rural juke joints along The Trail of the Hellhound on the Mississippi Delta. [more inside]
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Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 - Mother Jones asks what sustainable agriculture should really look like. Is it about food miles or should we all just eat less meat?
posted by patricio at 3:03 PM PST - 103 comments

The Breakfast Song. [more inside]
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High performance toilet demonstrations: St. Thomas Creations , Gerber, Gerber Gone Wild, American Standard, American Standard Champion 4, American Standard abusive flush testing
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"The blood slowly drained from his head. Soon, everything would go dark for Curtis." Clip Art + Snark = Funny
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 1:13 PM PST - 41 comments

The Alchemists of Sound: 2003 documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 1::2::3::4::5::6
posted by vronsky at 12:36 PM PST - 16 comments

He has documented Pine Ridge; worked extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last several years; as well as hitchhiking across Siberia.

Aaron Huey is a photographer.

(link is flash; you can navigate from inside of it by clicking down the sidebar.)
He has walked across America with his dog Cosmo, whilest keeping a journal. He also has a blog. Here are is a taster of his work. Last april Verve Photo named him as one of the new breed of documentary photographers. (There are links to many others on the right sidebar)
posted by adamvasco at 12:25 PM PST - 14 comments

Diebold accidentally releases GEMS software with "Steal Election" button intact.
posted by FatherDagon at 12:10 PM PST - 90 comments

"Cathay Pacific has apologized for embarrassing a customer whose anguish after missing her flight was captured on video by an airline employee and posted on the Internet..."
posted by hermitosis at 11:16 AM PST - 124 comments

Drummers, you're busted. In Search Of the Click Track. [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 10:58 AM PST - 83 comments

Rock critic Dave Marsh called it "part of rock and roll legend." Truman Capote said "I've never seen anything equal to it." And the film can not legally be shown unless the director is physically present. [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese at 10:44 AM PST - 61 comments

Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are inspired by the «ghillie suits», the military camouflage suit. It was an adventure to wear the suit in the stores because of the conflicts with the employees, the reaction of the customers and also to see the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.
posted by educatedslacker at 9:53 AM PST - 48 comments

Samuel L. Jackson inked a mammoth nine-movie deal with Marvel. The actor will play a supporting role in most of the movies as character Nick Fury.
posted by Pants! at 9:07 AM PST - 75 comments

25 Things I Hate About Facebook [u o==o video]
posted by Stynxno at 8:16 AM PST - 110 comments

Cologne City Archive is a six-story building containing 26 kilometers of shelves, 65,000+ documents dating from 922 AD, 104,000 maps, 50,000 posters, 500,000 photographs and 780 estates and collections, including Irmgard Keun, Hans Mayer and Jacques Offenbach. Considered a state of the art institution when built in 1971 and copied around the world, the building simply collapsed on Tuesday, destroying most everything. [1],[2](via) [more inside]
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Birds Stealing Ice Cream (via)
posted by The Whelk at 5:44 AM PST - 54 comments

Don't Fuck with the Daily Show. [more inside]
posted by Lord_Pall at 5:15 AM PST - 193 comments

You say Orwell, Tolstoy and Joyce, but actually it's Rowling and Grisham... Anyway if you are a chap, just make sure you put away that Clarkson before your date arrives.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 4:47 AM PST - 52 comments