November 17, 2012
Down with this sort of thing - Michael Calleri
"snow white and the huntsman is trash. moral garbage. a lot of fuzzy feminist thinking and pandering to creepy hollywood mores produced by metrosexual imbeciles." Michael Calleri, film reviewer for the Niagara Falls Reporter, receives an email from his publisher.
Backstory with the American History Guys
Hosted by three professors of US history (one a specialist in the 18th Century, one in the 19th, and one in the 20th), each episode of the radio show and podcast Backstory takes a subject from the news and looks at the American history behind it. [more inside]
SPEECHLESS
Congress Floor Charts (SLTumblr)
Sashay! Shantay!
72 year-old Liu Xianping becomes an internet sensation after modeling his granddaughter's teen clothing line on her Tmall website.
Hey Guys Ya Wanna Play? No, We Wanna Eat You.
Gentlemen with bowler hats on beaches
Score Rush MP, an HTML5 Multiplayer Shmup
Skouteris / PopLove
Robin Skouteris is a music and video producer, remixer and DJ based in Athens who creates mashup remixes, (like Deep and Sour and Looking for Sunshine) and a few parodies. His latest remix was released yesterday: "PopLove." [more inside]
Firestorm on Fifth Avenue
No one expected the force of the tempest that hit the New York Public Library in late 2011—not its new president, Anthony Marx, and maybe not even the literary lions up in arms over plans for an ambitious, $300 million renovation. Will the “palace of culture” on Fifth Avenue become a glorified Starbucks, as some fear? Interviewing all sides, Paul Goldberger walks the controversy back to its flash point: the nature of the library’s 21st-century mission and the values at the center of the Norman Foster–designed project. - Paul Goldberger, Firestorm on Fifth Avenue
LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE LEGS
Žižuku seems simple, but in fact it is supremely complicated.
Let’s play Žižuku! Vaguely similar in theory to the Postmodern Text Generator, but practiced individually, rather than Markov-chain-generated text. The creator, Julian Baggini, describes Žižuku thus: "The rules are simple: pick on any widely received idea and find the most clever-sounding way to invert it, so as to create a paradox, or at least the semblance of one." [more inside]
"Is Anybody Down?
"A website called 'Is Anybody Down' [front page SFW] has popped up to fill the niche that was left when the revenge porn site 'Is Anyone Up' shut down in April of this year. Like its predecessor, the site allows users to submit naked photos of other people and include links to the naked person's social networking page. But according to [First Amendment lawyer] Marc Randazza, this website's business model is slightly different from 'Is Anyone Up,' and is of questionable legality."* [more inside]
By securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
Current copyright law does not merely distort some markets – rather it destroys entire markets. (PDF) [more inside]
Squirrel purrs like kitten!1!
Your Saturday dose of interspecies lovin: cat adopts squirrel, squirrel learns to purr (slytb). Warning: seeing this might lead to hours of watching related videos as you fall down a rabbit hole of interspecies fostering.
chau chau 챠우챠우
deli spice (1997) oldfish (2007) vodka rain (2008) oldfish live (2009) deli spice live (2011) [more inside]
Cat and kittens playing cam
A cat and kittens playing together on live streaming cam. Very watchable kitteh tv.
New candidate for the Fermi Paradox
David Brin points to
Asteroid belts at just the right place are friendly to life -November 6, 2012
, saying "This combination is calculated to be rare, in perhaps just 4% of solar systems. That rarity offers yet one more new, rather daunting candidate for the Fermi Paradox."
The historic sound of the future!
Looking for an hour of monkey-themed music? Maybe you want to remember Ceefax and the ZX Spectrum while enjoying an introduction to personal computing? Want something to listen to while styling your hair or trimming your facial hair? Or maybe you just want a good hour of celebrities singing, Rolling Stones covers, or John Williams tunes.
Welcome to the historic sound of the future at the Project Moonbase weekly podcast.
Welcome to the historic sound of the future at the Project Moonbase weekly podcast.
Flash Bang Wallop
Go ahead.
The Loss of One Classy Republican
Helen Wallbank Milliken, former Michigan First Lady and strong supporter of women's rights, passed away late yesterday. Married to William Milliken, Republican governor of Michigan from 1969 to 1983, Helen Milliken was both a strong proponent of both the ERA and of abortion rights. [more inside]
Dan Brown Must Love Germans
Wired tells the story of an old encoded manuscript, the effort to crack it, and the secret occult society that it revealed.
NGO in a box
A polemic against NGOs and the destruction of local innovation However, one issue that has received relatively scant attention is the way in which the notion of civil society has been reduced to being synonymous with non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This is one area that can have malign and far-reaching negative impacts, which I’d like to explore here. And here's another view, this time from India.
"Whatever you have in skill it does not matter if the team is not spiritually ready."
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