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"I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It's as simple as it gets in this complicated world."

This story's making the rounds today, for a very, very good reason: A Victim Treats His Mugger Right
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Are we really free? So what does it really mean to be free and do we have it? If we are not free to chose our own actions then can we really be held accountable for them. What then may be the implications for our society?
comment posted at 11:32 AM on Mar-27-08

The owners of the domain donotreply.com get a lot of mail. [via]
comment posted at 4:10 PM on Mar-19-08

Between 1981 and 1984, the first network for kids broadcast an unusual show called THE THIRD EYE
comment posted at 9:15 AM on Mar-19-08

Drawing Superheros... Youtube videos of comics artists sketching and inking. Direct links: John Romita and Joe Kubert, John Buscema and Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Gibbons and Travis Charest.
comment posted at 10:22 AM on Mar-15-08

Ever want to watch a comics page get drawn at ridiculous speed? I've been reading Mer's comics since day one, but seeing an entire strip drawn and inked as a movie is almost better than watching an animated cartoon.
comment posted at 8:56 AM on Mar-13-08
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David Mamet: Why I am no longer a 'Brain Dead Liberal'. "The right is mooing about faith, the left is mooing about change, and many are incensed about the fools on the other side—but, at the end of the day, they are the same folks we meet at the water cooler. Happy election season."
comment posted at 8:18 AM on Mar-12-08

Can I Get a Napkin Here? A food court musical brought to us by the fine folks of Improv Everywhere . For more musicals in public places, check out "Reach! A Lecture Musical!" and "Reading on a Dream: A Library Musical" both from Prangstgrup.
comment posted at 3:12 PM on Mar-10-08

So, you hollow out piece of wood into an oblong bowl shape, and you attach a dowel to it. Stretch a dried animal skin over that, and put some strings on it. Instruments of this general construction and in a range of sizes can be found from Morrocco to Nigeria and everywhere in between. It goes by any number of local names: Malian masters like Bassekou Kouyaté and Cheick Hamala Diabaté call it ngoni. Senegalese Wolof griots like Samba Aliou Guissé call it xalam. And Morroccan gnawa musicians like Hassan Hakmoun and Hamid El Kasri get way funky on the larger version that they call the gimbri or sentir. [not: see hoverovers for link descriptions]
comment posted at 11:07 AM on Mar-9-08

Drummer Buddy Miles has died. Another wonderful musician - one who played with Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsies - died far too young.
comment posted at 2:26 PM on Feb-29-08

Hype Hope Wonderland The amazing art of PCP (aka heisuke kitazawa)
comment posted at 1:03 PM on Feb-24-08

The Nexus of Politics and Terror. Keith Olbermann presents a detailed timeline chronicling the Bush administration's exploitation of terror threats for political gain over the last 6 years. It shows how each revelation of an intelligence failure or a Democratic political victory was followed almost immediately by an alert of a new threat from al Qaeda. Larger version here.
comment posted at 10:45 AM on Feb-24-08

Free Star Trek. The only Star Trek that matters -- the ones with Kirk, Spock, Bones, and the rest.
comment posted at 1:20 PM on Feb-22-08
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor officially calls it quits, citing the Iraq war as a primary catalyst. "The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way for us to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on." Umm...yeah. So who's to fill their giant post-rock shoes? Well, most of the members have moved on to other projects, most notably Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (among others). That's not to mention the slew of next generation bands that have culled GY!BE as a primary influence to get your fix: Sparrows Swarm and Sing, Sweek, The Seven Mile Journey, or johnnytwentythree, just to name a few.
comment posted at 6:18 PM on Feb-12-08

Human artist or ape artist? Six paintings, six chances to show your expertise or just guess correctly. (Previously) Hint inside.
comment posted at 10:51 AM on Feb-9-08
comment posted at 1:24 PM on Feb-9-08

Ubuntu has quickly become the number one Linux distro for the desktop. Not only is it free, but it has also made Linux easier to use than ever. Now, Wubi enables Windows users to install Ubuntu just like any other application, so you no longer have to mess around with partitions, burning CDs, etc.
comment posted at 9:22 AM on Jan-21-08

The Tom Cruise Indoctrination Video that Scientologists Don't Want You to See. Brought to you by the brave (or heavily lawyered-up) folks at Defamer.
comment posted at 3:05 PM on Jan-15-08

Wondering why OLPCNews.com disparages the OLPC project so much? Curious as to the site's apparent emphasis on bad news about the project? It could just be a coincidence. Or it could be because OLPCNews.com's chief contributor Wayan Vota works on a project that's partnered with Intel, a former OLPC partner turned competitor. Does Intel's back-stabbing extend beyond pre-sales and into public relations?
comment posted at 9:55 AM on Jan-12-08

Nicole Gastonguay is an artist who creates one-of-a-kind crocheted art, with anthropomorphic food and drink as a recurring theme: sandwich, tin of sardines, cheeseburger, bottle of hooch, hotdog, TV dinner. Oh, and something for Tony Soprano. Via.
comment posted at 9:50 AM on Jan-8-08

The Last Knit. Yes, it's a one link YouTube post -- but it's a one link YouTube post about knitting, and that makes all the difference.
comment posted at 6:58 PM on Jan-1-08

Mythbusters explores Do Pretty Girls Fart?
comment posted at 10:56 AM on Jan-1-08

Subtropical sea-louse! It's the Tintinologist, an encyclopedia of Tintin, including such treats as all 195 of Captain Haddock's curses and an interview with Tintin's longtime translators.
comment posted at 10:35 AM on Jan-1-08

The Washington Post presents the top 5 quotes of 2007.
comment posted at 9:58 AM on Dec-31-07

50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007. [previously - 2004, 2005, 2006].
comment posted at 1:31 PM on Dec-28-07
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The Katzenjammer Kids* are 110 years old this month, the world's longest running comic. Watch 1918's Policy & Pie (pt. 2), rare animation by creator Rudolph Dirks who lost the strip to William Randolph Hearst in a court case. The strip was taken over by Harold H. Knerr, but Dirks retained rights to the characters and produced a rival cartoon under The Captain & the Kids for Pulitzer papers for several decades. Five artists followed Dirks and Knerr creating the strip for Hearst.
comment posted at 5:29 PM on Dec-27-07

Peace on Earth - 1939 Disney animation directed by Hugh Harman. And Goodwill to Men, a 1955 remake by Hanna-Barbera.
comment posted at 10:51 AM on Dec-24-07

Chuck Norris: meme-killer! Chuck Norris can kill a meme so effectively that the effect actually reaches back to the beginning of time and makes the meme retroactively uncool.
comment posted at 10:01 AM on Dec-22-07

iCruel: "Even if it does live it's not [a] life worth living ... it's really just a torture box."
comment posted at 12:27 PM on Dec-18-07

Warp Drive, When? "Have you ever wondered when we will be able to travel to distant stars as easily as in science fiction stories?"
comment posted at 10:09 AM on Dec-15-07

Courtney Love Rocks Harder Than You.
comment posted at 10:21 PM on Dec-14-07

Building a mandolin from start to finish. A beautiful documentary in three parts on the work of the late great Portland luthier John Sullivan.
comment posted at 1:15 PM on Dec-11-07

The Daily Coyote: "Charlie came into my life when he was just ten days old, orphaned after both his parents were killed. He lives with me and a tomcat in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming."
comment posted at 10:01 AM on Dec-1-07

"I would be remiss if I did not mention one of Liefeld’s more brilliant creations, Forearm! His power is that he has FOUR ARMS." The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings.
comment posted at 10:48 AM on Nov-30-07
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If you see an unattended bag in New York this holiday shopping season, you better just leave it alone. If you pick it up and don't immediately report it, it could net you a class E felony. The NYPD is planting the bags themselves and this isn't the first time. Operation Lucky Bag first started in 2006, but now they're intentionally loading the bags with credit cards to increase the crime (or non-crime) from a misdemeanor to a felony.
comment posted at 8:08 AM on Nov-28-07

Charlie The Unicorn: 16 million hits, not ever on MeFi as far as I can tell, and UNICORNS! Don't we all LOVE THEM SO MUCH?! (Where's the interrobang when you really need it?)
comment posted at 7:50 AM on Nov-28-07

A sad story about Animal Crossing and a dying mother.
comment posted at 1:25 AM on Nov-19-07

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush. "The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees a generation-long struggle to recoup." [Via Firedoglake.]
comment posted at 10:04 AM on Nov-18-07

Clinton in planted questions row. The US presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, has criticised her aides after she was accused of taking pre-arranged questions at a rally in Iowa. A case of meet the new boss, same as the old boss?
comment posted at 6:59 AM on Nov-12-07

One Laptop Per Child - Give 1, Get 1 Started by Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop Per Child project aims to put inexpensive durable laptops into the hands of millions of children in developing countries with the idea that the best weapon against poverty is education. For a limited time, people in the US can buy an OLPC laptop for themselves, and send one to a child in a developing country for $399 via the Give One, Get One program.
comment posted at 7:08 AM on Nov-12-07

With the release of Super Mario Galaxy on Wii, now is a perfect time to look back at the History of the Super Mario Brothers.
comment posted at 7:53 AM on Nov-9-07

Open Social API, coming soon (according to techcrunch) Google will be launching it's Open Social API, designed to allow inter operation between social networks. Social networks like orkut, linkedin, friendster, sixapart (livejournal and vox) and myspace will likely be using the technology. It's supposed to be announced today (at this URL, no less)
comment posted at 2:36 PM on Nov-1-07

A miniature of Scrooge McDuck's money bin. (in the words of the model maker) This is a set of images documenting a model of the world's richest duck's money bin, built by me, using blueprints created by the great Don Rosa and Dan Shane.And remember Carl Barks - the mind behind the idea of a man storing all his money in a giant concrete bin.
comment posted at 2:10 PM on Oct-25-07

The Best and Worst Logo Remakes of the Century
comment posted at 9:32 AM on Oct-25-07