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February 23, 2006
"Wouldja Believe..."
RobotJohnny has a terrific map of the Toronto Transit System - with all the names anagrammed.
10 Ugly Things. Yes.
Bill Zorn's terrific photo essay on his time spent in China's Three Gorges Dam area, documenting the effect of the dam's construction.
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February 21, 2006
Overprotection stifles the very creative forces it's supposed to nurture.
When time and culture collide - the Watchmaker's Blog.
The Problem with Music - by Steve Albini.
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip." Link (boingboing)
Octopus in public aquarium is a serial shark killer. (Google Video)
Trailer #2 for the upcoming Philip K. Dick film adaptation, A Scanner Darkly (due out July 7th)
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February 20, 2006
Wamma Lamma Ding Dong
BigEyeInTheSky - Wicked QTVR panoramas taken from a helicopter... Including many from the Hurricane Katrina damage in the American south.
CanLit Author Margaret Atwood has given up actually attending book-signings in foreign countries, apparently, in favour of having a robotic pen do the work for her via a device called the LongPen, which allows her to sign the books from a distance using telepresence technology.
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February 16, 2006
Lupercalia was yesterday. Didn't you get the memo?
Tinselman is the 'web home' of Myst co-creator Robyn Miller. Examples of his awesome artwork as well as other things he's interested in are featured. Including this great bit on an operating manual for Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion, and this collection of photography by performance artist Li Wei. More of Li Wei here.
HA HA HA America - awesome. Requires Flash. "No shake hillbilly fist at monkey tail"
The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed.
The White House press briefing transcript from Feb 13th, 2006. Scott McLellen presiding.
No flash required for this pic! BLAM!
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February 15, 2006
Days and Days
Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest: "The story so far: Danish paper publishes cartoons that mock Muslims. An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest. Now, a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest. Amitai Sandy, the publisher of Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Dimona Comix, and founder of the contest jokes, “We’ll show the world we can do the best, sharpest, most offensive Jew hating cartoons ever published! No Iranian will beat us on our home turf!”"
Popular Science (love that mag!) has a fun article on a the cruise ship of the future. Hint, it's not waterborne, it's a BLIMP, baby! Man, being a fan of Bruce McCall's work makes this so much more humorous to contemplate.
A collection of images of Boris Artzybasheff's Machinalia. Wonderful!
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February 14, 2006
U and I
In honour of Valentine's Day... turn up your headphones and give a listen to THIS little confection. Verified real by Snopes.com.
If you were at a loss to figure out what kind of card to get your sweetie today, why not sidle over to the Patrick Stewart Network (!) and send some of the Stewster his or her way...
In a finding that should surprise no one, a study has found that players of online console games are quite adept not only at finger-twiddling but also at cursing a blue streak [or perhaps more correctly, a b700 5+433k].
Hanzi Smatter - dedicated to the misuse of chinese characters in western culture.
graffiti creator is a terrific flash app/website that enables the user to write their name, or any small bit of text, in four different kinds of graffiti. Wicked!
Fark's Photoshop contest o' the day: Sitcom Situations for Mohammed. Oh this is going to get sacrilicious REAL fast.
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February 08, 2006
Borrowed Heaven
AdHunt is a blog devoted to 'advertising inspiration and gossip.' Basically it's a collection of the most interesting advertising on display around the world recently. Some really good stuff there.
Follow-Up: a collection of editorial cartoons from the Arab World. The images on this page are given some context and timeplacing and represent a contrast - but they neither justify or explain the response given to the controversy over the European cartoons depicting Mohammed, by fundamentalist Islamics in recent days. Suffice it to say that misunderstanding and hate are universal, even if nothing else in this world seems to be.
A terrific collection of aerial photographs of Mexico City.
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February 07, 2006
Baby Born on TTC Platform
Put a functioning badass World Wide "Computer Network Defense Operational Picture" screen on your desktop. U 2 can be top sekrit like the NSA as in this story(with pic goodness.
Teddy Girls. It's like Japanese cosplay but in the UK, in the 1950's.
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February 06, 2006
We Are All Danes Now
We Are All Danes Now - Jeff Jacoby, in the Boston Globe, wrote a terrific column yesterday that hits the current debacle, over the Prophet Mohammed being depicted in a series of editorial cartoons, dead on. Why are Islamists so intolerant? Why do they demand that everyone follow the tenets of their chosen faith, and then when they are offended by depictions of their faith as intolerant, they react with violence?
Here's an online collection of images of the prophet Mohammed - some of them dating back hundreds of years, paintings by medieval muslims... Warning: some of the more recent inclusions are generally offensive, not just to fundamentalist Islamics. Link to Wikipedia entry on the controversy.
Fight Club, the trailer, if the film was a romantic comedy.
Cthulu mixed with Lego = Cthulego!
The Escapist is a really interesting online magazine.
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February 02, 2006
TILT!
Daily Dose of Imagery's Sam Javounah gave a talk on photoblogging last night at Hart House in the University of Toronto. Very informative! I was there in the front row with Jerrold, soaking up the handy Photoshop tips and listening to the stories behind many of his most in/famous images. All in all a very good night.
Being in the front row means you get to be in pictures of the event: Sam's, James'.
Photography company Canon has posted a short called "Playtime" on their European website... awesome. Photographers acting like children at recess... who'd've thought?
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