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Doonesbury turns 40. GT originally asked for a 12 month contract. Previously
posted by johnny7 at 11:54 PM PST - 40 comments

The Daily Beast attempts to identify America's Smartest Cities. Rather more seriously, Nature ponders the Best Cities for Science worldwide, as part of its special on Science and the City. (The podcast segment on cities is a nice overview.)
posted by philipy at 9:27 PM PST - 50 comments

Dogs Gods, great portraits of dogs by British photographer, Tim Flach l Bourgeois Dogs by Torkil Gudnason l Mute: The Silence of Dogs in Cars by Martin Usborne, now at theprintspace, London. [more inside]
posted by nickyskye at 9:13 PM PST - 10 comments

Wake In Progress: Illustrations to Finnegan's Wake [via]
posted by brundlefly at 8:38 PM PST - 17 comments

Rob Ford (previously, sort of previously) has won Toronto's mayoral election. [more inside]
posted by unSane at 7:46 PM PST - 141 comments

"You think you die alone, but that's not true. Nobody is alone in this world. We have to co-exist and take care of each other." (Caution : Video contains images which some may find disturbing.) [more inside]
posted by crunchland at 7:45 PM PST - 42 comments

Wired: "Who 'Ruled the Air' in 1910, and Who Rules It Now?". Also see: Vintage AdBrowser (Previously): Communications Ads of the: 1910's, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
posted by zarq at 6:10 PM PST - 9 comments

Petra Cortright (C.V. here) is an internet visual artist. Her site has links to her works, which seem to be inspired by the aesthetic of the early web. She works in video, web art, and still image. [more inside]
posted by codacorolla at 5:47 PM PST - 11 comments

This new ad, [appearing on a "America's #1 taxpayer watchdog website"] which features a chilling look at one potential future scenario if America continues on its current destructive fiscal trajectory, is a 2010 homage to... [more inside]
posted by KokuRyu at 5:35 PM PST - 76 comments

Colette Magny (1926 – 1997) was a French song writer, composer and singer. Overlooked by the media because of her political engagement, she had success in the 1960′s with her blues-oriented repertoire and a big hit with her song “Melocoton (and gum balls)” (1963). Gifted with a strong and melodious voice, she was one of the few French singers at ease with blues and jazz. She sang the poems of great French poets (Rimbaud, Artaud, Aragon, Villon) as well as the repertoire of great blues and jazz singers (Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday) or her own, very creative, songs. Discover or rediscover the rich voice and soul of the great Colette Magny! Basin Street Blues::French Lullaby::Rock Me More And More::Frankie and Johnny::House of the Rising Sun::"Les Tuileries " chanson, texte de Victor Hugo::more.
posted by puny human at 5:23 PM PST - 6 comments

The Daily Beast discovers that the college programmers behind Facebook not only love their captors but also perpetuate the atrocities they themselves endured. Behind the new code of the schoolyard... [more inside]
posted by nickrussell at 4:44 PM PST - 28 comments

Triangulation Blog is done by industrial designer, art director Emilio Gomariz, and covers photography, art installations, product design, architecture, animation, technological and digital projects. Gomariz also does Base Times Height Divided By 2, an experimental, scientific and technologic extension of Triangulation Blog.
posted by netbros at 4:34 PM PST - 4 comments

Ussachevsky early tape manipulation piece Despite some of the synthesis sounding "dated", this and other similar pieces are still so full of audible discovery. You can find more of this and other instrumentation types here...
posted by somnambulist at 4:08 PM PST - 9 comments

Laura Podolnick writes stories about heartbreak, origami swans, the birds in the Staten Island Ferry and a child who wears a Hitler mustache. Many of them have very long titles.
posted by NoraReed at 3:21 PM PST - 8 comments

Best commercial for a video camera you've seen today (slyt commercial) [more inside]
posted by roaring beast at 3:09 PM PST - 28 comments

A third year law student at Boston College doesn't like the prospects he has after graduation, so he decided to ask the dean for a refund.
posted by reenum at 2:03 PM PST - 166 comments

The Taliban Can Has Website
They also welcome feedback.
posted by Biru at 1:55 PM PST - 81 comments

3VVVVVV (SLYT) [more inside]
posted by griphus at 1:24 PM PST - 21 comments

Sea Pools: And there are the ocean pools, so beloved by Australians that they have their own culture, a culture robust enough to be the subject of a documentary: Sea Pool: A Life in the Ocean, teased in the video above. Bondi Icebergs, shown in the teaser, is particularly amazing; fed by crashing waves, it is briny and bracing all year round. Membership requires that you swim every weekend, regardless of the weather. Do that for five years, and you’re a member for life. It is the ultimate pool-lover’s pool club. [more inside]
posted by dame at 1:21 PM PST - 29 comments

Homemade SLR
posted by plinth at 1:01 PM PST - 30 comments

Dyson likes to dress as a princess, so his mother wrote a book about acceptance, and his school and family rallied around him this Halloween. [more inside]
posted by mikoroshi at 12:45 PM PST - 65 comments

Unpopular Science: One man's unhappy encounters with the laws of physics.
posted by spiderskull at 12:45 PM PST - 7 comments

The art of glass sign making. (via) A delightful and strangely relaxing short documentary about the work of David Smith, a craftsman and artist making beautiful traditional glass signs.
posted by Long Way To Go at 12:34 PM PST - 10 comments

I'm sure you remember the time-travelling hipster photographed in 1940, and discovered in April of this year (MeFi). Well now there's been a new time traveler sighting - in the film "The Circus", by Charlie Chaplin a woman appears to walk by the camera talking on a cellphone. In 1928. [more inside]
posted by dirtdirt at 11:53 AM PST - 136 comments

The 99 (previously), the Islamic-inspired superheroes which have met both praise and somewhat batshit controversy, are crossing over with the DC Universe.
posted by Artw at 11:48 AM PST - 22 comments

Aaron Gouveia and his wife were already having the worst day of their lives. Then came the abortion protesters.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 11:07 AM PST - 137 comments

Since being mentioned previously in the blue, land artist Jim Denevan has visited Nevada, Vancouver, and Siberia. (Warning: photography interfaces, Apollonian gaskets). [more inside]
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“I’m surprised that there aren’t a lot of independent, owner-operated editorial Web sites out there,” Mr. Sicha said. “We will be two years old in April, and we are self-sufficient and stable. That’s pretty fast.” The NYT on the ups and downs of The Awl, which happens to be launching their new site, The Hairpin, today.
posted by geoff. at 10:05 AM PST - 41 comments

N8* Neverdaunt is a dream like world of floating Islands and falling stars where nearly anything can happen. N8* is an online massively multiplayer virtual sandbox, A place to play, make friends, be creative and competitive.
Windows, .Net 2.0 required.
Tip of the hat to Jake. Hi, Jake!
posted by boo_radley at 9:32 AM PST - 26 comments

A Squirrel's Guide to Fashion : from Life Magazine, circa 1940.
posted by sonika at 8:53 AM PST - 48 comments

Worldchanging Bright Green Future City - Alex Steffen sits down with the mayors of Portland and Seattle to talk about which is better the 'future city' and the confluence of urbanization, social justice and environmental change, not to mention political pushback amid high unemployment and cultural inertia.
posted by kliuless at 7:21 AM PST - 10 comments

Flying eyeballs. Pissed-off bearded ladies. Mummy Jesus. The Wolfman. The lactation of St. Bernard. The Jesus & Mary UFO invasion.* And the Phineas Gage of 1550.

These and more at the gallery of unexpected motifs in Renaissance art. [old-school NSFW] [more inside]
posted by theodolite at 7:20 AM PST - 31 comments

Reggae legend Gregory Isaacs has died after a battle with cancer. [more inside]
posted by analogue at 6:49 AM PST - 42 comments

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, has filed four lawsuits in a Californian court alleging that Mr Timonen, who ran its online operation in America, stole $375,000 (£239,000) over three years. [more inside]
posted by peacheater at 6:24 AM PST - 60 comments

"The whole endeavour of the consciousness studies community is absurd – they are in pursuit of a chimera" - Peter Hacker on philosophy
posted by Gyan at 4:30 AM PST - 145 comments

In 2008, residents of Seattle began to hear a very different kind of radio program on their AM dial, for three hours every weeknight. That show was Too Beautiful To Live. Much of the joy of the program is getting to know the hosts, and discovering whether or not the show survives, so I won't spoil it for you. You can start by listening to the First Show, or enter any weekday since Jan. 7, 2008, into the "Browse by date:" search box on the First Show webpage. If that's not enough motivation to start listening, here are some favorite episodes:  Interview with John Hodgman, Interview with Garfunkel and Oates, Interview with Wil Wheaton, Ross Dress for Less, Broke as a Joke in Seattle, Drunk People are So Meta, Interview with S.E. Hinton, Interview with Adam Carolla.
posted by LURK at 3:11 AM PST - 13 comments

462 feet above Seattle, a family has transformed the top of the Smith Tower into their rather fantastic residence. Slideshow here. [more inside]
posted by disillusioned at 2:15 AM PST - 122 comments

For your All Hallows pleasure, The Geek Pumpkin Roundup collects designs from Cylons to Star Wars, from silly to snappy.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:10 AM PST - 11 comments

Young guitarist Graham Stookey plays "Jonah, an original composition. (via Reddit)
posted by Rory Marinich at 12:09 AM PST - 27 comments