Art project by 25-year-old Brazilian Icaro Doria: Using national flags as graphics to communicate statistics about that country. For example, instead of a pie chart showing how many 14-year-olds in China are studying instead of working: www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags In the same…
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Knights Take Bishop
The Associated Press today published some excerpts from threatening letters sent by the now-arrested, would-be pipe bomber calling himself “the Bishop.” And even if he hadn’t chosen an incredibly lame supervillain name, his diabolical scheme was straight out of Austin…
I Hate All Phone Companies
AT&T and Cingular are only slightly evil. On the other hand, Legacy, which has hijacked several pay phones in Redwood City, should burn in hell. BEWARE. On April 12th, while traveling north to meet D and then go to a…
Red Cross Fools Wile E. Coyote, Film at 11
From the Interesting Advertising blog: some well-placed photos of a hypothetically devastated downtown San Francisco. And the word of the day, kids, is trompe l’œil.
lolcats
One day, cultural historians will write volumes about the emergence of captioned cat pictures–or “lolcats” as they are known in the vernacular–and deconstruct at length their significance, especially with respect to the gentrification of leet-speak, and muse upon their sublime…
Use(less) Tax
As Wikipedia tells us, “use tax is … assessed upon ‘tax free’ tangible personal property purchased by a resident of the assessing state for use, storage or consumption of goods in that state (not for resale), regardless of where the…
Hiking? If nothing else, bring a whistle.
A couple, both around 30 years of age, were recently found after getting lost in a local state park and spending 5 days there. My wife was struck by the story and pointed it out to me because the park…
Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens
As detailed in Dinosaur Comics, this may be the only way to save Wikipedia! Plus it’s a fun excuse to say “Fictional Jimbo Wales” over and over again. ~CKL
Happy Election Day!
I don’t care how you vote today; I just want you to get out there and stuff those ballot boxes! Uh, that didn’t come out quite right. I also love John Rogers’ metaphor of the current administration as a questionable…
Lame Argument of the Day (Not Mine)
At the “Pete Rates the Propositions” site, the eponymous author sets forth a Semi-Biennial Lecture on Bonds, which basically says “don’t worry about interest rates or repayment” and concludes thusly: There is one last reason to vote for a bond…