Skip to content.

Monthly Archives: March 2005

March 22, 2005 | Music

Tom Waits Top Twenty

Default thumbnail.

The twenty favourite albums of musical genius Tom Waits. (Yes, I’m a sycophant.) The albums range from the brilliant but…

March 22, 2005 | Art, Design & Photography

Pap Art

Default thumbnail.

From the site: “Pap Art is the collaborative expression of ex-paparazzi photographer David Koppel and figurative painter John Kiki.” So…

March 15, 2005 | Art, Design & Photography

The Case for Comics Journalism

Default thumbnail.

The comic as type of narrative has matured a lot over the course of the last twenty or thirty years….

March 14, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Customise Yourself

Default thumbnail.

What does your computer say about who you are: classic and refined, or modern and edgy?

March 10, 2005 | Art, Design & Photography

Fore-edge Painting

Default thumbnail.

Fore-edge painting. Books that, according to Metafilter, reveal paintings on their edges when fanned. Oodles of links to fantastic examples…

March 10, 2005 | Language, Literature & Linguistics

Oxford English Dictionary Science Fiction Project

Default thumbnail.

The Oxford English Dictionary Science Fiction project has been redesigned and relaunched. The project aims to collect and trace words…

March 9, 2005 | Science & Technology

Cargo Cult Science

Default thumbnail.

An excerpt from Richard Feynman’s excellent book, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” wwwcdf.pd.infn.it

March 9, 2005 | Cinema

Flash Film Festival

Default thumbnail.

Finalists for the Flash Film Festival over at FlashForward2005 in San Francisco. The Flash artists involved have done some incredible…

March 7, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Who’s on First?

Default thumbnail.

Tim McSweeney rewrites the classic Abbot and Costello sketch for a bit of updated insanity. www.mcsweeneys.net

March 4, 2005 | Politics

Lloyd Axworthy’s Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice

Default thumbnail.

Lloyd Axworthy, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, has a thing or two to tell U.S. Secretary…

March 3, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Museum of Bad Album Covers

Default thumbnail.

To save you the time and effort of getting your collection of old vinyl albums out of storage, the Museum…

March 2, 2005 | Fun & Humour

Bush Shoot-Out

Default thumbnail.

Cool Flash game—play George Bush and his trusty side-kick Condie and shoot it out with… wel, everyone. www.soft.aaanet.ru

March 1, 2005 | Cinema

Elephant Independent Film Festival

Default thumbnail.

For the fans of Japanese cinema, Brussels has a real treat in store. From 12 to 15 April 2005 the…

March 1, 2005 | Cinema

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters

Default thumbnail.

For those with an extreme dedication to the science of biology or an unnatural interest in B-movie monsters, we present:...

March 1, 2005 | Science & Technology

European Commission Says No To Democracy

Default thumbnail.

From a press release issued by NoSoftwarePatents.com, a non-profit rallying European tech workers against software patents in the EU: The…