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I was reminded of Roger Ebert's review of The Village : To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefix...

Paramount Studio map of California's geographical facsimiles, fron The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing, 1927 ...

Via Digby, I learn that the International Committe of the Red Cross confirms that the US is operating the torture prison at Bagram which ...

Patrick McGee, republished on Roger Ebert's blog, warns against losing a tooth on the wrong day. Santa had a son who fell in love wit...

In the unlikely event that you saw Grindhouse , you undoubtedly recall the witty trailers for faux exploitation movies that didn't r...

Randall Munroe, who draws xkcd, “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language,” did a survey of people's use of colour names. Fi...

Norimitsu Onishi at the New York Times offers a mindboggling piece about karaoke and violence in the Philipines. Mr. Gregorio, 63, a...

Ragnell at Written World has an intriguing theory about the design of military Meals Ready to Eat. All joking aside, MREs are an incredib...

That Lou Reed, such a nice young man: We chatted for a while, and she asked me what my favorite music was. I said the Velvet Undergr...

M.I.A.'s video for her new song “Born Free” is a well-crafted, harrowing political allegory well worth ten minutes of your time. I w...

Local Gas Pump Originally uploaded by jmspool Note that I am sure that, considered in isolation, each of these stickers was an ...

Latke vs Hamentash: A Materialist-Feminist Analysis: To summarize briefly an account that is richly nuanced (in fact, often incompreh...

In honour of Confederate History Month I give you Fengi on Confederate History: Again with the brazen bigoted fuckwitcha stuff. ...

A few weeks back, I was observing a focus group of folks around 20 years old. It turns out that a lot of them bring their laptops with them...

Via Laughing Squid, I learn of a series of beautiful, unsettling animated GIFs by Jaime Martinez.

One of the very first things I ever blogged was Patrick Farley's web comics project Electric Sheep. It's still one of my very favo...

I remember seeing this trailer and thinking, “Thank God someone made this movie, so I wouldn't have to make it in order to get to see...

I'm on my way to a you have to watch this , but I need to take the long way around. I have spoken in praise of MSNBC's commen...

Who would have thought that you could have gotten David Bowie and the Tree of Life in the same picture?

Via Katherine Summer , I learn of how snowboarder Graham Watanabe describes his sport. Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and t...

Constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald smacks down a canard about Constitutional rights. This notion that the protections of the Bill...

I've been remiss in my duties as an interaction designer to make predictions about the Apple iTablet which everyone presumes will be an...

I want to have handy that infographic about health care spending between countries.

Caleb Larsen has created an artwork which has put itself on eBay. It comes with an end user license agreement. Artist has created a work o...

OK Go, the band that gave us that awesome treadmill dance video for their song “Here It Goes Again,” explain that you cannot embed their ...

Apple has finally officially announced an event on 27 January. I guess Apple isn't being completely coy any more. (Recall that the ...

It turns out that Haiti's airport is a limiting factor in getting aid to the Haitians. Col. Buck Elton, who was given the mission...

For more than a decade, I've been spamming people with this note every year. Time marches on: this year the primary medium for that w...

Roger Ebert's illness has been a tragedy for him but a blessing for the rest of us. Having lost the ability to speak he's starte...