November 27, 2004

The best band you've (maybe) never heard of...

The best band you've (maybe) never heard of... Dean Wareham, formerly of Galaxie 500, gives his top ten reasons for retiring the band. With sounds rivaling and reminiscent of Velvet Underground, Mojave3,and LLoyd Cole, Luna bids farewell.
posted by docpops at 10:46 PM PST - 22 comments

February, 1989.

February, 1989.
The U.S.S.R. leaves Afghanistan, a fatwa is issued for Salman Rushdie, Tim Berner-Lee is writing a proposal for something called "hypertext", Salvador Dalí is laid to rest, and Terry Gross interviews William Gibson.
posted by Tlogmer at 10:45 PM PST - 10 comments

The twisted animation of David Firth.

"I'm having a little get together with some of my friends...." I found this bizarre and disturbing little flash-movie a few months ago. The first link is actually the second installment in what is now five episodes. There's more (including the first through the fifth) on his site. The music is phenomenal- bits of spookiness from sigur ros and aphex twin. When you're all done, there's an interview with the author regarding Salad Fingers here. People are still trying to figure out exactly who the character is and where he's from. If you look and listen carefully, there are literary references, anagrammed names, etc. If you liked Salad, you might also like "Hell"(non-flash)
posted by exlotuseater at 10:16 PM PST - 21 comments

#35 - 'Please accept my apology, and the assurance that I will send no more letters like this to companies.'

Overqualified: A new letter every Tuesday
Joey Comeau wrote cover letter after cover letter, listing the same store bought traits in the same wording, day after day, hoping to find another job. And then one day he just snapped a little. He sat down to write a cover letter, and something entirely new came out. So he sent it anyway, but also publishes them on the web. (Or at least he used to.)
posted by anastasiav at 9:27 PM PST - 19 comments

crash-test dummy high jump

crash-test dummy high jump, crash-test dummy curling, plus a host of other games. [note: flash]
posted by crunchland at 9:00 PM PST - 4 comments

Want the clock

Too many books? Not enough furniture? Problem solved.
posted by kenko at 6:26 PM PST - 48 comments

The Gates

Christo and Jeanne-Claude aren't wrapping anything up this time. They are let the fabric wave freely in Central Park to the tune of $20 million [NYT].
posted by bigmusic at 5:31 PM PST - 57 comments

PS: PPS

The Project for Public Spaces releases its list of the 20 best neighborhoods in North America. See Also: The World's Best and Worst Parks.
posted by deafmute at 2:37 PM PST - 54 comments

Family. Friends. Neighbors. Rich and poor.

Dapper dresser Charles Teenie Harris, though known as one shot, shot more than 80,000 pictures in his hometown of Pittsburgh. During a forty-year career with The Pittsburgh Courier he shot ordinary people, jazz legends, Negro league baseball players, and the town. A great life that ended on a sour note.
posted by arse_hat at 2:21 PM PST - 7 comments

makes me hate teenagers

Girl murders mother, posts about it on her blog. Oh yes, it's real. Many of the 1300+ comments on her last entry are defending her actions, or saying it's unfair to judge her. (via Waxy via Glassdog)
posted by zelphi at 1:41 PM PST - 111 comments

Moon Gas to Power the Earth

Power the Earth with Moon gas As if there weren't enough cockamamie ideas for alternative fuel.
posted by Photar at 12:17 PM PST - 34 comments

Photoshop helps

How photoshop helps "moral values" in Iran.
posted by hoder at 10:41 AM PST - 33 comments

worldprocessor

Worldprocessor: An attempt to do justice to the term 'political' and 'geo-political' globe.
posted by moonbird at 10:21 AM PST - 4 comments

advergaming, newsgaming, political games, simulations and edutainment

Water Cooler Games is a blog devoted to "video games with an agenda. It is about games that go beyond entertainment." They cover pretty much all you would expect from the recent furor over JFK Reloaded to Russian plans to create "patriotic video games in hopes to replace the popular DOOM".
Along the way they found time to play the single most unsafe for anywhere anyone might conceivably see what you were doing game - orgasm girl (link goes to the blog discussion, not directly to the game).
posted by thatwhichfalls at 9:32 AM PST - 10 comments

Warning: Contains Nuts

"To protect baby’s eyes offending by dazzling light..." Technical Standards runs a yearly contest for the Worst Manual, offering a $100USD prize. If you enjoy cringing at bad interfaces at This Is Broken, clicking your tongue at typos in library databases or rolling your eyes at the corrections at Regret the Error, you'll thrill to such gems as "Do not iron clothes on body." Note: not all bad manual contest winners are just bad translations. [via plainlanguage]
posted by jessamyn at 8:58 AM PST - 14 comments

Pixar artists on their day off

What do Pixar artists do on their day off? Ronnie Delcarmen is a story artist, story supervisor, character designer and an illustrator who works for the Incredible Company. His sketchy art style and fluid lines renders a beauty of itself. He has a weblog that discusses his groovey comic book, Paper Biscuit as well as give updates to his life as an artist.
posted by Hands of Manos at 7:46 AM PST - 12 comments

Heathens!

The Paganism of Suomi. Before the arrival of Christianity, and even for centuries after, Finland (popups) had a rich religious tradition. Like most things Finnish, it was wholly different from the mythology of their Nordic neighbors, but shares much with that of the Sámi (Lapp) peoples.
posted by borkingchikapa at 7:21 AM PST - 10 comments

Stick it on the fridge

I've often looked at Magnetic Poetry in gift shops and thought, "There's no way I'm paying that much." Fortunately, there's a free alternative, albeit a digital one. (Includes a bookmarklet that allows you to pull a word set from any webpage, and the option to save your masterpiece to show your friends.)
posted by robcorr at 3:52 AM PST - 25 comments

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