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Sheremey's Gallery. Russian artists and photographers.
posted by plep at 11:03 PM PST - 2 comments

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow. Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms. The site also includes other very well presented number crunching articles too. [via The One]
posted by riffola at 6:36 PM PST - 10 comments

These people make for some "Interesting Motherfuckers."
posted by the biscuit man at 6:09 PM PST - 17 comments

"Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life and died a pauper" is Toby Richards-Carpenter defending a car designer that may be destroying BMW. Chris Bangle is the designer that believes it's all about the art, but his many enemies are petitioning him to stop the damage to BMW's reputation and bank balance. Whatever, his unusal/innovative work seems worth discussing.
posted by meech at 5:11 PM PST - 41 comments

Welcome to the Relativist Fallacy. Conservative blacks in the United States are objecting to recent comparisons between the gay marriage and the 1960s civil rights movement, which fought segregation against blacks, arguing that sexual orientation is a choice.
posted by the fire you left me at 4:48 PM PST - 89 comments

ShipBreaking The photographer Edward Burtynsky captures some dramatic images of ShipBreaking. The Perils of this industry were first highlighted in a Pulitzer prize winning series of articles by the the Baltimore Sun. Today, these ship graveyards still pose serious environmental issues as highlighted by this shipbreaking weblog maintained by Greenpeace.
posted by vacapinta at 4:09 PM PST - 10 comments

Why Isn't Ted Gärdestad's Beautiful Music More Well Known? Everyone has a favourite musician who, for some reason, remains unknown and unfairly overlooked. At least for some swedes it might be this musical giant who worked alongside with the well known Benny & Björn of ABBA fame. warning: first link a 2.7 meg mp3
posted by lazy-ville at 4:00 PM PST - 8 comments

Philographikon - Galerie Rauhut: Antique Prints and Rare Maps.
posted by hama7 at 2:15 PM PST - 3 comments

Apparently genuine reply to a letter sent to the Inland Revenue. "I must take issue with your description of our last as a "begging letter". It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a "tax demand". This is how we, at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy, traditionally referred to such documents." [via Orbyn, via Cal]
posted by feelinglistless at 1:27 PM PST - 9 comments

memogate
first the plame affair - now stolen confidential memos from democratic senators servers ... business as usual on capitol hill?
posted by specialk420 at 10:28 AM PST - 30 comments

Russian Dacha Panormas - what a charming place! The voyeur in me likes to peek in houses to see how other people live. This is just one of many fascinating Russian interiors from Bee Flowers whose portfolio celebrates the everyday. Don't miss the magnificent Moscow Metro series.
posted by madamjujujive at 9:28 AM PST - 7 comments

"The turkey is stuffed with raped women, dead babies, warriors who were stripped of their ability to fight and could no longer protect their families - which to warriors - is a fate worse than death."

Comedian Margaret Cho weighs in on turkey day.
posted by emelenjr at 8:40 AM PST - 94 comments

12 oddest Christmas hits... ever! Almost December, the stores are playing the usual Xmas compilations (already) so I propose a change to the usual "Rockin around the Christmas Tree". Which ear worm do you want?
posted by snowgoon at 5:12 AM PST - 33 comments

3D Tube Map
posted by Orange Goblin at 2:44 AM PST - 18 comments

Gothic Miss Manners : advice from a Gothic perspective.
posted by starscream at 1:27 AM PST - 8 comments

What will happen if Howard Dean loses the Democratic presidential nomination? Will he quietly disappear from the national stage or run as a third party candidate? Could he be popular enough to win without the Democratic Party, or just split the Democratic voting population?
posted by MrAnonymous at 12:51 AM PST - 65 comments

GEEKPLTS4U. License plates of the geek set and the stories behind them.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 12:28 AM PST - 12 comments