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Stef reviews free jazz. Review index.
posted by kenko at 9:31 PM PST - 14 comments

An examination of the differences between the literary and scientific cultures, by John Allen Poulos.
posted by jjray at 9:07 PM PST - 32 comments

“When it comes to user privacy, SSL is the elephant in the room.” Meet Firesheep: a Firefox plugin that sniffs out unencrypted HTTP sessions on your network segment and lets you impersonate any of the users found. Eric Butler unveiled it today at Toorcon 12, a San Diego conference on computing security, and it demonstrates what amounts to a gaping hole in the Web security model.
posted by spitefulcrow at 8:24 PM PST - 67 comments

Competitive roller derby is undergoing a transformation: skaters are adopting tactics that are unconventional, but legal, and other teams have to adopt them to just keep up.
posted by LSK at 8:23 PM PST - 63 comments

WE ALL GOOD PEOPLE pt. 1 (ISRAEL/PALESTINE) (vimeo)
WE ALL GOOD PEOPLE pt. 2 (ISRAEL/PALESTINE) (vimeo)
More videos by Grant Slater.
posted by andoatnp at 7:12 PM PST - 11 comments

Fossil Angels - written by Alan Moore in December 2002 to appear in KAOS #15, which never appeared. Published here for the first time.
posted by MetaMonkey at 6:19 PM PST - 22 comments

Words of the World is a site dedicated to the exploration and life of words and language. [more inside]
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 3:01 PM PST - 9 comments

A City of Ghosts. Nashville blogger Betsy Phillips (Aunt B) (who I posted about last year) has published a book of new ghost stories, all set in Nashville. She's posting one sample story every day for the month of October on her blog. You can start at the post link with "Still Haunted" or check out my favorite, "The Purple Impala."
posted by emjaybee at 2:45 PM PST - 3 comments

Vladimir Putin Action Comics
posted by lullaby at 2:23 PM PST - 27 comments

Cross-dressing bass-playing Korean otaku endorses Meg Whitman for governor of California! [more inside]
posted by ardgedee at 2:13 PM PST - 22 comments

Words I love, not to be confused with Words I hate.
posted by Fizz at 2:06 PM PST - 32 comments

E.O Wilson: Ants are a lot like us. Deborah Gordon: No, ants are like ants.
posted by The Whelk at 1:29 PM PST - 35 comments

The late Tony Wilson’s headstone, as designed by Peter Saville. “Factory Records founder Anthony H. Wilson died in August 2007 [MeFi previously]. Just over three years later, a memorial headstone – designed collaboratively by Wilson’s long-term associates Peter Saville and Ben Kelly, with Paul Barnes and Matt Robertson – was unveiled in the Southern Cemetery in Chorlton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester.” A 2001-like Modernist monolith for a scion of Manchester, the “Original Modern.”
posted by joeclark at 12:46 PM PST - 33 comments

The Russian mafia and criminals have their own type of music. It's called shanson [chanson]. A couple of contemporary examples by Michael Krug- Kolschik and Lesovopal- Sit Boy l Arcadiy Severnyj (1939-1980) was considered the king of street (prison-folk) songs. Shanson MyRadio channel. [more inside]
posted by nickyskye at 11:46 AM PST - 24 comments

The birth of Wonder Woman - notes sent between William Moulton Marston and artist H. G. Peter show the genesis of the character . Meanwhile today is the 5th Annual Wonder Woman day - a Portland and Flemington, New Jersey event supporting Domestic Violence Programs. Not able to get over to Excalibur Comics or Comics Fusion to take part in the events or activities? There's still a few hours left in which you can take part by bidding on artwork online (previously).
posted by Artw at 11:42 AM PST - 19 comments

Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum, Youtube Play - A Biennial of Creative Video - aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. [more inside]
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 10:52 AM PST - 10 comments

The Map of Non Monogamy [via]
posted by empath at 8:05 AM PST - 139 comments

A brief tour of the mysteriously universal laws of mathematics and nature. [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 7:11 AM PST - 33 comments

Things Organized Neatly is a photo blog of exactly what the title says.
posted by bardophile at 2:55 AM PST - 58 comments

On November 4, 1950, the European Convention of Human Rights was signed in Rome. This site was created as part of the celebration, and apart from the text of the Convention itself it offers landmark judgements and other related information.
posted by rjs at 1:12 AM PST - 7 comments