January 2009
11 posts
Google Maps Streetview in Pennsylvania (via... →
(via keithschofield)
- Ah, these look like some of my old LARPing buddies.
Pope Reinstates Four Bishops, Including Holocaust... →
This decision further hastens the Catholic Church’s slide into contemporary moral irrelevancy.
Planet Harddrive (BLDGBLOG) →
Mind-bending post on the geological aspects of harddrives, 3D holograms, and some fantastical musings on the potential to turn the Earth into a giant data storage terrain.
Given the possibility of 3D holograms that allow storing 1TB of info on a single DVD: “The question, then, would be whether or not you could build a geotechnical version of this, some vast and slow-moving machine –...
New age of rebellion and riot stalks Europe... →
Global waves of riots - from Greece to Iceland, Latvia, and Russia. Coming to America soon?
Photos from art festival held on a frozen lake... →
"Marriage Ban Donors Feel Exposed by List" - How... →
People are complaining about being put on a public list after they donated more than $100 to the campaign for Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriage in California. They are complaining for being harassed with email messages and boycotts of their businesses. I think it’s quite hypocritical of them to have interfered with the private lives of thousands of gay people and then to...
Naomi Klein on Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction →
“It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that. They called on “people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement...
Pics of the Mapping Shanty being assembled on... →
The map shanty finally went up on the ice of Medicine Lake today and it looks rad. Here’s a panoramic photo of it amongst its neighboring shanties. I’ve helped a little in building it over the past month, but I didn’t make it to the lake to assemble it. Check out pics and info of the many cool 2009 art shanty projects here at artshantyprojects.org (opening Jan. 17th to Feb....
Filastine (from Barcelona) - awesome... →
Check out Filastine’s myspace page for more music - U.S. tour in March.
Will Oldham feature article in The New Yorker →
Who knew Will Oldham took the photo on the cover of Slint’s “Spiderland” and that he played the father in the movie about baby Jessica, the girl who fell down a well? He seems like a really nice guy, and a sharp dresser too. At a concert in a field near Louisville, “He was wearing a maroon tank top, orange-and-pink pants, blue Crocs, and a pink Boston Red Sox cap, with...
Paul Krugman: Bigger Than Bush - (NYTimes.com) →
In response to Republicans’ attempts to shirk the blame for their woes, Krugman diagnoses their downfall in the history of racism which underlies their anti-government stance. ”The fault, however, lies not in Republicans’ stars but in themselves. Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent...