From the site: “Pap Art
is the collaborative expression of ex-paparazzi photographer David
Koppel and figurative painter John Kiki.” So stir together two
brilliantly expressive artist with experience in widely differing
media, and you get a fantastically colourful result. In fact, I
wouldn’t mind this work on my living room wall at all—who needs furniture?
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The twenty favourite albums of musical genius Tom Waits. (Yes, I’m a sycophant.) The albums range from the brilliant but hard to listen to (like “Solo Monk” by Thelonious Monk, and “The Yellow Shark” by Frank Zappa) to the sublime and timeless (“Trout Mask Replica” by Captain Beefheart, and “Rum Sodomy and the Lash” by The Pogues). Grab any of these you have in your record collection, and have yourself a fine old time.
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The comic as type of narrative has matured a lot over the course of the last twenty or thirty years. The Columbia Journalism Review investigates the medium’s graduation to a type of journalism.
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What does your computer say about who you are: classic and refined, or modern and edgy?
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The Oxford English Dictionary Science Fiction project has been
redesigned and relaunched. The project aims to collect and trace words
used in science fiction, including criticism and fanfiction.
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Fore-edge painting. Books that, according to Metafilter, reveal
paintings on their edges when fanned. Oodles of links to fantastic
examples of the art.
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Finalists for the Flash Film Festival over at FlashForward2005 in San
Francisco. The Flash artists involved have done some incredible things
in this relatively restrictive medium.
www.flashforwardconference.com
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An excerpt from Richard Feynman’s excellent book, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
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Tim McSweeney rewrites the classic Abbot and Costello sketch for a bit of updated insanity.
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Lloyd Axworthy, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade, has a thing or two to tell U.S. Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. In an open letter on missile defence, budget deficits and priorities, mister Axworthy lets rip with a passion many of us would envy.
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To save you the time and effort of getting your collection of old vinyl
albums out of storage, the Museum of Bad Album Covers has compiled a
list of the worst covers imaginable. Spot your favourites, marvel at
the ones you never knew could exist. And recoil at the terrible
realisation of how many of these you actually listened to…
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Cool Flash game—play George Bush and his trusty side-kick Condie and shoot it out with… wel, everyone.
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The secrets to life, love and liberty are revealed to us by no less an eminence than the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. According to Harper’s the Ayatollah’s 1985 “treatise sets out his position on 3,000 questions of everyday life”. Nuggets of gold like: “The whole body of an infidel, even the hair, the nails, and its wetness, is unclean.” Filthy, filthy.
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According to the Guardian, a UN declaration on womens’ rights was scuppered by American demands that a statement affirming abortion as a right be removed from the declaration. Perhaps the sanctimonious, self-righteous, fundamentalist shits currently in the White House should be forced to revisit some important points on the non-religious (some would say anti-religious) foundations of America.
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From a press release issued by NoSoftwarePatents.com, a non-profit rallying European tech workers against software patents in the EU:
The European Commission has reportedly declined the European Parliament’s request for a restart of the legislative process on the controversial software patent directive. The EP had taken a three-tiered decision to ask the Commission to begin the process from scratch: On 2 February, the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament near-unanimously decided to make this request. On 17 February, the EP’s Conference of Presidents (i.e., the group chairs) unanimously backed that decision. A week later, on 24 February, the plenary of the EP reinforced this by unanimously “inviting” the Commission to review its proposal for a software patent directive although there was no more formal requirement for the plenary to vote on this subject.
Florian Mueller, the manager of the pan-European NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, condemned the Commission’s decision in the strongest terms: “A wannabe Napoleon who heads the Commission and a Microsoft puppet that runs the DG (directorate general) in charge have decided to negate democracy. Now we call on the EU Council to demonstrate a more democratic attitude and to reopen negotiations of its Common Position at the forthcoming meeting of the Competitiveness Council on Monday (7 March).”
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