June 20, 2006
Evangelical evolution.
"The mellowing of evangelical Christianity may well be the big American religious story of this decade."
For that special goth in your life: strange doll
(the shadow boxes look like something out of Se7en)
Curious George What <i>do</i> I do?
Curious George What the heck do I do for a living?
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RFX Jr. To Take Another Swat At The Empire
Maybe you read the Rolling Stone article that generated 2.5 times as many emails than any other RS story.
Now that rascally attorney is taking it a step further.
Go RFK! Go!
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June 19, 2006
Curious Musical Monkey Filter
Famous Scrawls?
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SavetheInternet.com
is trying to "preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment for the Internet that ensures that the Internet remains open to innovation and progress."
Donald Hall
Is the NewUS Poet Laureate
via stupid smelly GarbageFilter, but, like, I totally thought of it too eh
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John Heartfield's
photomontage is on show at the Getty. A prominent Dadaist, he changed his name from Helmut Herzfelde as a protest against German nationalism in WWI, and produced a stream of striking anti-Nazi images. More here and here, and a bio plus quotes here.
SUV
What happens when you don't design your stretch limo according to the environment you will be using it in?
June 18, 2006
A rather lame attempt...
...to create a new piece of Internet lore, and the swift debunking of it.
Not everyone
who gets hit by a drunk driver dies. A very powerful ad.
Modern Movies illustrated in the form of Russian Folktale Woodcuts
- or something.
You don't need to read Russian, just look at the pictures. You can work out which movies they are. Example within.
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Hitler Cats.
Does what it says on the tin, as they say.
Move over Chuck Norris.
He's coming! YouTube video. via
June 17, 2006
Curious George: Global Warming?
Why are people so oppsed to the idea? What is the worst that would happen if we all had more fuel-efficient vehicles and used less energy?
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LED artcrime tutorial
An tutorial on how to light up your surroundings with LED (light emitting diodes) graffiti. Illustrated with cool photo examples.
June 16, 2006
Parze pleedon me
In the 1930s and 1940s, F. Chase Taylor – under his pseudonym of Colonel Stoopnagle – produced dozens of spoonerism fairytales which appeared. The originals were printed in the Saturday Evening Post and eventually published in a collection. The book is now out of print,but some of the stories are on Fun with Words, including:
Prinderella and the Cince,The Pea Little Thrigs and Beeping Sleauty
Judge called upon to use Wisdom of Solomon in a very literal way.
Not so much halvesies, but...
27,000 Year Old Portrait
"Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a 27,000-year-old drawing of a face, which would make it the oldest in history. Like many other ancient portraits, it is reminiscent of the work of some of the great modern artists . . ."
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