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The Chuck E. Cheese Ouroboros
In 1977, Nolan Bushnell allowed Gene Landrum to bring Chuck E. Cheese [yt] to life as a family-friendly access point to Atari games. This, perhaps, explains the pizza.
Under the sky and over the whole Earth, the Human race is only one!
When her Japanese-American husband was sent to internment camps in California and Wyoming, Estelle Peck Ishigo chose to accompany him. An art-school teacher fired for her interracial marriage, she documented the three-and-a-half-year ordeal in a short memoir and hundreds of sketches and paintings.
Mondo Kim's moves to Sicily!
Contents of the beloved/historic/deceased Mondo Kim's video store in New York City purchased by the town of Salemi, Italy.
The village intends to project the videos as part of a neverending film festival open to the public. Roadtrip, anyone?
Fight! Fight!
How does an actor sell taking a punch?
My deity is at least 16-bits
8-bit Jesus is a free CD of Christmas classics, done in 8-bit style by the fantastic Doctor Octoroc. [via]
It should only take a minute, really.
BathroomFilter: Is it appropriate to give dietary suggestions to the person in the next stall or not?
Trials of a Responsible Hedonist
Peripatetic, endearingly-awkward geek seeks amazing advice for casual sex shenanigans.
Once Upon a Time, There Were Some People Called the Rushers of Din...
Animated via a cut-out stop-motion process creator/director John Korty dubbed lumage, the lewd and luminous Twice Upon a Time ran for two weeks in a single Westwood, CA theatre in August, 1983. Airing 12 times on HBO in 1984, the film wasn't seen again until a director-approved, bowdlerized VHS version was released in 1991.
Ward Jenkins discusses the film with writer Taylor Jenson, who commemorated TUaT's 20th anniversary in 2004, and presents a series of shorts Korty produced for Sesame Street in the 1970s.
Ward Jenkins discusses the film with writer Taylor Jenson, who commemorated TUaT's 20th anniversary in 2004, and presents a series of shorts Korty produced for Sesame Street in the 1970s.
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Its been a tough month, but you are good people. I would like to thank you.
You're so fat, you make a capybara look like an African pygmy mouse!
Fuck You, Penguin.
A blogger tells cute animals what's what. (Slightly NSFW - profanities in text.)
Are journalism students completely screwed?
Given the never ending stream of bad news coming from print media companies, what is the realistic job outlook for a college student who will be graduating with an undergrad print journalism degree in the next 1-2 years? In other words, am I completely screwed?
eight night ocho noche huit nuit acht nacht otto notte oito noite
LanguageFilter: I see some connection between the words 'eight' & 'night' in a number of languages. Is there some reason for this?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the NY Times crossword puzzle
XWord Info soberly describes itself as containing "data about NYT puzzles dating back to November, 1993, covering the entire time that Will Shortz has been Puzzle Editor," understating the cornucopia of geeky goodness within. See any crossword over that time. Look up every appearance of a word with every clue ever used for it. See the most frequently used 500 words, and the most popular by length.
Is the case REALLY afoot?
Are there any real-life Sherlock Holmeses, Hercule Poirots, or Adrian Monks?
But plaid will always be ugly.
How does one prove that all humans see the same colors? Is it possible?
“I don’t mind you having a black character, but please don’t show them in school together.”
Charles Schulz: "I finally sighed and said, 'Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?'" We don't usually think of Peanuts as given to political statements but this great post at Edge of the American West makes the case for Schulz's progressive racial politics.
Science fiction hunt: no one ever dies
A science-fiction story which claims that no one ever dies.
Up in the sky!
The entirety of the Fleischer/Famous Studios Superman Film Series.
In the early 1940s, this series raised the bar for theatrical shorts with its fluid animation and action-packed storylines. It remains a classic series thanks to its high production values and historical significance not only as the first comic-to-film adaptation, but also as an occasional vehicle for American propaganda during the war.
A comic for you to enjoy
The Abominable Charles Christopher.
Please enjoy this comic. I think it is delightful in every way.
Text 118 question stream
The mesmerizing live question feed from text118118.com shows questions from curious UK residents. The answers are always polite and reasonable complete and accurate. Sometimes you can see one person submitting the same question or a string of related questions.
Sunday Paper Pledge Drive?
Can nonprofit news models save journalism?
The advertising-supported, for-profit institutional model of journalism (skip this ad) is on the wane. Except for a few large and successful outlets, investment in comprehensive reporting has suffered from a shrinking bottom line, even as the hoped-for development of citizen journalism has been generally underwhelming. But some see a solution taking shape in not-for-profit, independent, citizen-supported online news organizations that would employ skilled professional journalists. Pointing to the encouraging recent growth of NPR and PBS as news outlets, many industry thinkers are starting to agree that "The only way to save journalism is to develop a new model that finds profit in truth, vigilance, and social responsibility." Editors are beginning to experiment with models like that of Paul Stieger's ProPublica (a sort of reporting clearinghouse), Geoff Dougherty's ChiTown Daily News, The NYC Center for an Urban Future's City Limits, and Scott Lewis' Voice of San Diego. Great idea - will it work?
MeteorFilter
Fire in the sky - a meteor burns up somewhere over Western Canada. Really impressive video here, another video, TV news with more footage here.
BIKING + GUITAR HERO
BIKE HERO
(slyt)
Michael Myers Beauty Mask Infomercial
This is a really creepy mash up of the Rejuvenique infomercial and Joe Cocker's "You are so Beautiful to Me".
reality jockey
RjDj "is a music application for the iPhone. It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to. RjDj is mainly listened to with headphones. Think of it as the next generation of walkman or mp3 player." l Michael Breidenbruecker initiated the project, now joined by a team of musical and technological thinkers and coders l "What it’s really about is a new approach to how to listen to music, how to develop musical tools, and how communities own and share that work."
Real people... MADE OF PLASTIC!
50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography
- "Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model."
gorgeous sea animals
Pictures and descriptions of sea slugs - an absolutely stunning species of marine life
I am going to play it back into the room again and again...
"I am sitting in a room (mp3),
different from the one you are in now." is the opening phrase from Alvin Lucier's (Wikipedia) best known work, simply titled 'I am sitting in a room'. The piece involves playing a recording of a short speech back into the room and re-recording the result. This is done again and again, with the resonant frequencies of the room reinforced each time, until all that is left are the characteristics and resonances of the room.
(Interview and documentary also available at ubu.com
Brenin
The philosopher and the wolf.
"A spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a wolf cub changed Mark Rowlands’s life. From that moment on he found human company never quite matched up." [Via]
Is this viral? I received a strange book...
Is this viral? I got a strange book unexpectedly in the mail.
The Art of Onfim: Medieval Novgorod Through the Eyes of a Child
Amazing collection of sketches and doodles, drawn on birch bark, created by a child in Medieval Novgorod.
But will it work on the subset of searches sent via avian carriers?
Google Flu Trends brings us epidemiology through search analytics. The prevalence of certain search terms seems to be a good predictor of CDC flu reports a couple of weeks later. The New York Times has a story on this project.
Congratulations, India!
India's lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, has just reached the moon. G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, told reporters, "The last 20 minutes were so critically important, I can say my heart skipped a beat or two." Here are some hi-res photos of Earth, taken by Chandrayaan-1.
Oh, for F-bomb's sake
The current FCC case [PDF] before the U.S. Supreme Court presents a fascinating dilemma for the judges: how do you respectfully discuss the legality of profane words in the nation's highest court? And for reporters: how do you report on the specifics of the case? It seems decisions vary across publications: NYT, Washington Post (reg req), LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, AP, McClatchy. As for the judges themselves, they opted to allow only substitute terms. PDF transcript with word count at bottom. Background.
Dancing in the streets for Obama
People took to the streets to celebrate Obama's victory in New York, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Boulder, New Brunswick, Oakland, Philadelphia, Gainesville, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, Atlanta, Cambridge, Madison, Richmond, Baltimore, Santa Cruz, and Washinton, D.C.
Don't Stop Believin
How common has it been in US history for a Presidential election to prompt celebrations in the streets across the country?
What's it like to be President? The book
With all the presidential talk, I'd like to read a good book on what it's like to be President of the United States.
How Obama Did It
How Obama Did It: an in-depth look behind the scenes of the campaign, assembled by a special team of reporters who were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day.