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Post election demonstrations and protests in Portland, San Francisco (pics). And a few more.
posted by loquacious at 9:58 PM PST - 42 comments

Peter Funch takes a hell of a photograph. {flash interface}
posted by dobbs at 9:09 PM PST - 15 comments

Twenty Reasons Why You Shouldn't Post Your Picture On The Internet.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 7:25 PM PST - 40 comments

OK, take a deeep breath and relaaaaax... Just relax... Nothing new here, nothing threatening, just relax.
posted by airgirl at 6:25 PM PST - 12 comments

Philippe Starck's been making lots of stuff lately, but I didn't know he was producing shoes for Puma until today (flash site features an odd naked guy you can make jump and walk). Clean and sleek, but they're fetching $200+ a pair which is kind of outrageous. Another bunch of freaky expensive wacky shoe designs I found are from Fessura. Click through their gallery to get an idea of what they offer. Medium continue to be my personal favorite shoes, but I'm always on the lookout for more interesting things to wear. If you've seen any interesting shoes lately, do share.
posted by mathowie at 6:08 PM PST - 25 comments

Buy a Gun For America! Buy a gun because you live in a country where you can.
posted by mwhybark at 5:15 PM PST - 18 comments

Democracy 2004 - Earlier this year, Richard Avedon decided that he would try to capture a sense of the country in the midst of a crucial Presidential election campaign. These are the (unfinished, but wonderful) results.
posted by amandaudoff at 5:03 PM PST - 16 comments

Electing to Leave - A guide to expatriating (via blogdex)
posted by sourbrew at 4:33 PM PST - 131 comments

Stem cells target cancer tumors. There has been some promising research with embryonic and adult stem cells in the fight against cancer. Meanwhile, California approved $3 billion for stem cell research, good news (debatably) since the 22 stem cell lines available for federally-funded research are contaminated with mouse cells and unusable for treatment in humans, but I wonder if California might end up in a federalism showdown with the new Senate over this. Maybe it will be less of an issue now that researchers have figured out how to derive stem cells from a morula, a four-day old embryo, without destroying it.
posted by homunculus at 4:26 PM PST - 10 comments

1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)
posted by pedantic at 3:52 PM PST - 2 comments

How to Become an iPod. A New Yorker documents his quest to become a Mini iPod for the 2004 NYC Halloween Parade.
posted by jacknose at 11:55 AM PST - 4 comments

Hidden pictures! In an effort to get back to that "best of the web" thing, here are some cool hidden pictures within pictures. Can you find them all without looking at the answers? (from B3ta)
posted by salmacis at 11:34 AM PST - 14 comments

The Geek Guide to Kosher Machines : How the industry makes appliances Shabbat safe.
posted by Karmakaze at 11:10 AM PST - 16 comments

Kerry Concedes President Bush won a second term from a divided and anxious nation, his promise of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping John Kerry's fresh-start approach to Iraq and joblessness. After a long, tense night of vote counting, the Democrat called Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency, The Associated Press learned.
posted by Outlawyr at 8:22 AM PST - 505 comments

It all comes down do one question: Must France stay in Algeria? “If the answer is yes,” he says, “then you must accept the consequences.”
Gillo Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers", now out on a Criterion dvd, is a film of quiet, overwhelming power. The mix of subjective and documentary techniques holds the viewer's trust so authoritatively that many scenes come close to sneaking out of the mental "movies I saw" box to mix with the viewer's own memories. No matter how complicated or fragmented the action becomes, Pontecorvo gets the pace, tone and rhythm exactly right, filling the screen with eloquent details.
(Last year, Pontecorvo's masterpiece was discussed here, too. More inside)
posted by matteo at 8:21 AM PST - 9 comments

A Fistful of Westerns.
posted by srboisvert at 8:09 AM PST - 6 comments

All this will pass. "A day will come when all this will pass away...all this will pass and a new, a noble existence will begin. "I am not here for ever", he tells himself again and again, "soon I shall be there - there where there is liberty, all that I dream of, all that the suffering soul desires. Here is a heavy sleep, a nightmare. There it will be waking, beautiful and happy. Open the doors of the prison, send away the warders, strike off the chains, it will be enough. I shall find the rest for myself, in this free and beautiful universe which I did not know how to appreciate before, although I saw it." A commentary on Dostoevsky's House of the Dead, a fictionalised account of his four year's of hard labour.
posted by biffa at 6:52 AM PST - 21 comments

While you were re-electing a president:
Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers.
Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors.
Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment.
Voters in 11 states voted to ban same-sex marriage. The lowest margin was 57%-43%. The highest (Mississippi) was 86%-14%. Kentucky's also bans civil unions. That one was 75%-25%.
The Senate will likely be split 55-45 in favor of Republicans, creeping closer to a filibuster-proof supermajority. Meanwhile, 89% of these guys are older than 65.
Enjoy your tax cut, America. You're going to need it.
posted by PrinceValium at 6:47 AM PST - 73 comments

Cosmic ray air shower simulations (do not miss the movies)
posted by MzB at 6:17 AM PST - 1 comments