Beatboxing at the Ballot Box...
Art and politics blur at your local concert venue, where artists from Ani DiFranco to Pearl Jam are making voter turnout their mission... Read it.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
You are what you eat...
"Years ago, the environmental movement coined the term "greenwashing" to describe how corporations use public relations to make themselves appear environmentally friendly. Now, nutrition advocates need their own moniker for a similar trend among major food companies - call it 'nutri-washing,'"... Eat it.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
An anime for deep thinkers...
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is dense, but better than the original in many ways: fewer clichés, more sophisticated animation, deeper insight into human nature and technology... Read the wired review. Or check out the teaser.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
Technology rules in "World of Tomorrow...
You'd better hope your computer doesn't break down today. There's a good bet nobody will be around to fix it. That's because every self-respecting geek with $10 and a pulse will be queuing up to see "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow," the slick new live-action blockbuster that forgoes sets and locations in favor of purely computer-generated backdrops... Read it.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
Iraq is no Vietnam, but...
Iraq Is No Vietnam. But Vietnam Holds Lessons for Iraq. Iraq can only be won politically, not militarily, and only Iraqis can win it... Read it.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
Eclipsed in Iraq...
War on Iraq: The United States is losing in Iraq – literally losing territory and population to the other side. But who is going to tell the American voters? Read it.
9:14 AM 9/19/04
Dark daughter...
Check out the website of Toronto-based t.j. bryan aka tenacious. Right here.
8:18 AM 9/15/04
Issue xii: certified stat-buster...
Hey, thanks for making spread xii our 1st certified stat-buster. In case you're missing out what creams the current crop, there's always time to come in.
7:29 PM 9/12/04
USA terror map...
A Threat to Peace, a poster-sized color map of U.S. terrorist infrastructure. Whether you’re a budding weapons inspector or just a trivia buff, A Threat to Peace can give you the scoop on nuclear manufacturing facilities, chemical and biochemical weapons facilities, weapons manufacturers, nuclear testing and launch sites, and more. ... Click here to download a high-detail Adobe PDF version of the map
1:42 PM 9/11/04
Grenze...
Grenze is a multimedia project. It’s a view of the capitalist system’s metamorphosis from Karl Marx’s book, Capital. It articulates with it. It gives it a visual translation.Grenze places progressively series of metamorphic movements... Check out the video excerpt.
1:42 PM 9/11/04
Your support needed...
FBI harassment continues. Support the Critical Art Ensemble Defense Fund. Do what you can!
1:42 PM 9/11/04
Txt jihad: the NY model...
Indymedia and the text message jihad... More.
1:42 PM 9/11/04
The meaning of wife...
Get the dirt on wifehood in 2004... More.
1:42 PM 9/11/04
Walk like a mannequin...
The new Levi's ad campaign speaks to corporate America's secret wish to turn us all into dummies... Read it.
1:42 PM 9/11/04
Free life-saving life-enhancing screensaver...
Finally a screensaver guaranteed to make you feel good about life! One you absolutely positively must add to your useless desktop collection. Total downloads last time we supposedly checked: 1,252 in just 24 hours. Get it. Grab it Gobble it up! while it's here.
9:15 PM 9/7/04
Re:signs...
New mind cake: explorations in alien semiotics about an imagined but probable extra-terrestrial alphabet. Here.
7:24 PM 9/7/04
Media Carta...
17,000 jammers have signed the manifesto. Are you ready to join the movement?
2:22 PM 9/7/04
Bright lights, burning city...
This year's Burning Man festival was alive with light all day and all night, as luminescent art and wild displays of fire lit the desert skies... Read it.
1:15 PM 9/7/04
Polysaturated culture...
Food is more than just fuel: it is polysaturated with culture. Consider haggis, hot dogs, Big Macs, or chicken soup... Read it.
12:46 PM 9/7/04
Cadavers steal the show in L.A....
An exhibit of dissected and flayed corpses, on display for the first time in the United States, attracts a steady stream of visitors curious to see what humans really look like under the skin... Read it.
12:46 AM 9/7/04
What means dark energy...
What is dark energy? Can we fit black hole evaporation into quantum mechanics? Do extra dimensions exist? The big questions of physics... Read it.
12:33 PM 9/7/04
Foetry...
Exposing fraudulent contests, naming the sycophants, just cleaning house: it’s Foetry, the “poetry watchdog”... Read it.
11:45 AM 9/7/04
City survives art geek invasion...
This year's Ars Electronica festival turned the city of Linz, Austria, into one big digital art installation, featuring everything from car alarms programmed with laugh tracks to messages broadcast by antelope horn... Read it.
11:45 AM 9/7/04
Paraculture...
Paranormal beliefs are found in every society. Getting rid of them is a fine idea, but would cultures survive without them? Read it.
11:11 AM 9/7/04
Greene's perfect evil..
Graham Greene wrote of “perfect evil walking the world where perfect good can never walk again, and only the pendulum ensures that in the end justice is done”... Read it.
10:16 AM 9/7/04
Press X...
In order to serve you better, we need to know which order you belong to. For Primates, press 1. Cetacea, press 2. Jesuit, press 3. If you are a Mason or have a rotary phone... Read it.
10:03 AM 9/7/04
Good books, bad books...
There are maybe 175,000 new book titles that show up every year. So are all those books good news or bad? Robert McCrumb considers the question... Read it.
9:33 AM 9/7/04
The last terra incognita...
Mongolia or Borneo were once real adventures. Now they even have Web access. The landscape of the mind is the last terra incognita.. Read it.
6:13 AM 9/7/04
Like chimps...
Like chimps, but with a more deadly refinement, human beings harness altruism and solidarity to wage war... Read it.
5:51 AM 9/7/04
Terror trap...
Terrorism, all agreed 30 years ago, was a left-wing revolutionary shift caused by oppression. Fix the evil and no more terrorism. That was then, now is now... Read it.
4:32 AM 9/7/04
The real texture of war...
Paul Fussell describes the real texture of war: the cold, lice, rotten food, mutilations, and murders. With a literary eye... Read it.
2:44 AM 9/7/04
We shop, therefore we are...
We shop, therefore we are. It’s not exactly the American credo, but it comes close to being a national pastime, says Robert Samuelson... Read it.
12:15 AM 9/7/04
Che: just a pretty face?
For 40 years he has been a sex symbol, heroic victim and the ultimate poster boy of revolutionary chic. But behind the myth of Che Guevara, screenprint star of a million posters and t-shirts, lie darker truths. With the release of a new film (The Motorcycle Diaries), it is time to reassess the Sixties' most enduring icon Read it.
11:33 AM 9/6/04
Neruda: bad poet, bad man?
Famous mainly in the West, and only because he was a Stalinist at the right moment, Pablo Neruda was both a bad poet and a bad man... Read it.
9:30 AM 9/6/04
Cash-happy...
Money doesn’t buy happiness. Sure, but money can buy time: a shorter commute, more leisure, more rest. And that can make for happiness... Read it.
1:30 AM 9/6/04
The big new idea in lit?
Poetry, once hugely popular, is now an esoteric pastime. Novels are set to follow. The big, new idea is graphic novels... Read it.
3:22 PM 9/5/04
Voynich's hocus?
Its odd script and bizarre images have long puzzled experts. Could Voynich’s manuscript actually be a hoax? Read it.
11:19 AM 9/5/04
Just another rambling madman...
Without Gilchrist’s Life of William Blake, the “gentle yet fiery-hearted mystic” might’ve been forgotten as another rambling madman... Read it.
9:29 AM 9/5/04
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