July 2010
Be Your Own Nature Sounds DJ With Free Audio Mixer →
Image via Unplggd While back we showed you an iPhone app that lets you customize nature sounds to chill out to. You could choose a basic theme, like the ocean, and boost up the crashing…
One Year To Advance 12 Miles →
A gripping - and often distressing - report from the frontlines of the war with record fatalities after a decade:
More here. Money quote from reporter Sean Smith’s diary:
20/06/2010 I’m in…
Welcome to the Republican Tea Party →
How refreshing to see an effort to actually hold Republicans accountable for their nasty, selfish attitudes toward fellow citizens. The Democrats have an answer to the Republicans’ effort to…
Sandra Bullock Gets Duped by Big Oil's Restore the... →
Photo: Youtube Something’s Not Right With This Campaign
Not long ago, many celebrities got together to make a PSA for the “Be The One” campaign, urging people to sign a petition to save the…
Sunsetting The DHS →
Building off the Dish, E.D. Kain considers sunset clauses for entire branches of government:
Too often our government is a self-serving, bloated mega-institution
incapable of ever cutting off…
Arkansas’ bottom drops, 20,000 teens lost without... →
State Drops to 48th in National Study of Child Well-Being.
Keep in mind we are talking about children here.
Our state is always near the top in children’s poverty (48th), high school…
Recycled Chairs Make for Chic Clothes Hangers →
Shared by Chris Tackett
love this. could mount a few on a wall for a coat rack.
Looking to make an eco statement in your entry closet? Why not try these super-chic clothes and coat…
This Is Why Biking Is Good For Your Legs, NYC →
New U.S. Law Requires Electronics Makers to... →
Photo by Mark Craemer Tucked into the financial reform bill that passed this week is a provision many sustainable electronics advocates will be happy about. Publicly-traded companies and…
The most f*cked up orgy ever. →
Shared by Chris Tackett
weird ad.
(click ad, via) Headline: “In case 2012 isn’t 2012.” I’m not sure what the coming Mayan Apocalypse has to do with the purchase of Tulipan…
grain edit · Script and Seal posters →
via http://grainedit.com/2010/06/29/script-and-seal-posters/#more-4072
Glenn Beck's gold-investment scam/scheme: an... →
Jess Bachman, infographic designer extraordinaire, shares this new work which shows how Glenn Beck “uses his influence to peddle dubious information and endorse fraudulent companies, and how how…
Intentionally inefficient cigarette packaging... →
As designers, we spend much of our time making things better, but what if to improve someone’s life, we had to make something worse? Recent RISD grad (alma mater shout out), Erik Askin…
wooden hippo & monkey toy →
Chris Tackett posted a video:
Facebook Closing In On Acquiring Check-In Service... →
We’re hearing from sources close to the deal that Facebook is in late stage negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. The deal is not yet finalized from what we’re…
14 Famous Man Rooms →
Shared by Chris Tackett
Love how Thomas Jefferson’s bed is built into the wall so he can roll between the office or the bedroom.
In reading about the lives of history’s great men, one thing I’ve…
Nick Bilton Lives In A Future Where There Are No... →
Shared by Chris Tackett
i like his use of the barcode to lead to a digital space to discuss the book.
The future, as William Gibson once said, is already here. It is just unevenly distributed….
Rube Goldberg rat-run sends a neutral balloon... →
Shared by Chris Tackett
well played, Dyson. great video.
Here’s a lovely little sport: Dyson engineers rendered a helium balloon neutrally buoyant and then fed it into a Mousetrap-style…
Plan B: Grading New Orleans's Readiness for... →
With geography and climate change working against it, New Orleans prepares for the future. GOOD assesses its resiliency plan. This article originally appeared in GOOD Issue 020: The New…
One Million Gallons of Oil Leak Into Michigan... →
Kalamazoo River map via Wikipedia. Here we go again… Not too much on this one yet, but Detroit News reports that Environmental Protection Agency officials have said that as much as one…
Infographic: Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq... →
The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq.
Source: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (
Face Of The Day →
Shared by Chris Tackett
Hope this is the start of a new meme: sheep, rainbow, turbine.
Sheep graze close to electricity generating wind turbines as a rainbow
is seen in the background…
Suicide Blonde →
via http://suicideblonde.tumblr.com/page/20
Xeni on Rachel Maddow Show: Wikileaks and "Afghan... →
Last night’s episode of The Rachel Maddow Show (solidly guest-hosted by Chris Hayes of The Nation) focused largely on the Afghanistan war documents leaked on Sunday by Wikileaks.
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Phone etiquette and the end of the individual →
Peggy Nelson argues that everyone being on their mobile phones all the time — even while at a dinner for two — isn’t rude, it signals a shift from our society’s emphasis on the individual to the…
What if the Earth stopped spinning? →
Using computer modeling, it’s possible to take a crack at answering that question. If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the…
this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr →
via http://thisisnthappiness.com/page/4
Value-added journalism →
I asked Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, whether his paper should have started Wikileaks. I wondered whether the Guardian was looking at WIkileaks the way it looked at HuffPo when…
Newt Gingrich Doubles Down on the Stupid... →
On the website of his organization Renewing American Leadership, Newt Gingrich ups the ante on the Manhattan mosque and makes some breathtakingly idiotic and dangerous arguments. He begins: There…
Tis the Season to Hate thy Neighbor →
The economy stinks no matter what people who earn their money from rigging the stock markets say. Unemployment is high, and throughout the land the hounds of hatred have been released by the usual…
Updated: Surprise speaker at TEDGlobal: Julian... →
At the start of Session 12 of TEDGlobal 2010, Chris Anderson announced a mystery guest. “There’s a site some of you may know, called WikiLeaks.” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange steps…
Twitter to Show Photos and Videos in the Stream... →
A new Twitter setting called “Tweet Media” has rolled out to some of Twitter’s users, strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos…
The cutest thing on the internet →
While her daughter Mila sleeps, Adele Enersen imagines what she might be dreaming and makes it real: So, so, so great. (via mathowie)
50 Fantastically Clever Logos →
Shared by Chris Tackett
some of these are great. a few are too “see/say-y”
I know everybody and their brother does logo roundups so you’re probably sick of them, but I don’t believe I’ve…
WikiLeaks does humanity a service [Pharyngula] →
It’s amazing: WikiLeaks has just dumped over 91,000 classified documents from the Afghanistan war on the web. Just like that, we get an actual look at what’s been going on over there, unfiltered…
Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past →
Researchers at MIT create software that compares the scene in front of the camera with an historical photograph. You can then see the old shots lined up over the new, like a window into the past.
BP CEO Tony Hayward to Resign, Get $17 Million in... →
Image via Newsopi This news should surprise exactly no one: BP CEO Tony Hayward, who let fly gaffe after gaffe during his company’s oil spill response, is set to resign. But it turns out…
Noemie Goudal - BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE *... →
via http://www.booooooom.com/2010/07/07/photographer-noemie-goudal/
Evolutionary Biology Explains Why Poor People Have... →
Why do poor people often have many kids, even though having a lot of children surely makes their tough lives even harder? Don’t blame them – blame evolutionary biology:
There is no reason to…
Advertising is next →
Condé Nast is a house built on smoke and mirrors — that is, to say, on brand advertising. So it is astonishing to hear its CEO, Chuck Townsend, essentially toss the company’s business model out…
Pardon Me, Would You Have Any Pabst Blue Ribbon? →
Shared by MCV MCV
BEER SHARES
Somewhere over the Pacific, Pabst Blue Ribbon began putting on airs.
That reliably blue-collar Milwaukee lager, later adopted by unbearable hipsters…
Deepwater oil rig alarms turned off prior to... →
It’s important to get your full eight hours of sleep in each night. The last thing anyone needs is some stinking emergency alarm going off warning of potential disaster. What could possibly go…
I have RAS syndrome →
My use of the phrase “ATM machines” in a post the other day had my inbox buzzing. I’ve become more lax in my language use recently…I just don’t have the energy to be pedantic about grammar and…
Sealing tape that looks like hinges →
Mmiinn’s XTape is clear adhesive tape printed with trompe-l’œil hinges, to make it appear that your boxes are sealed with brass hardware. They ship next autumn.
XTape (via Super Punch)
Writing tips for anyone →
Author Janet Fitch wrote a list of 10 Writing Tips That Can Help Almost Anyone. Long ago I got a rejection from the editor of the Santa Monica Review, Jim Krusoe. It said: “Good enough story,…
The Long Game And The Breitbart Implosion →
I have not been immune to feeling frustrated and depressed by the sheer power and energy of the Fox News/Drudge/Breitbart media onslaught against anything to do with Obama. As in the…
The FNC News Cycle →
Drum notices a pattern:
There have been three big conservative outrages that
have choked the airwaves over the past couple of weeks. #1 was about a
bunch of scary black men, the New Black…
Raising the Bar For Recycling: Architect Designs... →
Trolling the bar scene at Melbourne’s Raising the Bar, we find the Offcut Stools by Edwards Moore Architects. They are part of an exhibition of works made from “hard rubbish finds, found…
What Have We Wrought? →
I’ve mentioned before that I think John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin to be his running-mate was the single most irresponsible political act since a lame-duck President James Buchanan did nothing…
