December 2008
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France’s Eram has launched a series of ads featuring ostriches and a naked guy with a tagline that translates to, “no women’s bodies were exploited in this ad.”
Via Jezebel.
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Sharon Tate Nude in a Snowstorm (1967) →
First saw Yulia Brodskaya’s beautiful papercraft on Laureola’s tumblr, now Neatorama had an entry on her work.
Click here to visit her site.
What's in your shampoo? →
Ran into this article while googling for a natural shampoo. Not as straight-forward as you’d think, seeing as the FDA doesn’t regulate them and pretty much anything can be labeled ‘natural’ - including:
DEA - carcinogenic, banned in EU since 80s
Propylene Glycol - main ingredient in antifreeze; used to give it ‘glide’ - acts as a synthetic replacement for...
One Dollar Diet Project →
Very thought-provoking project from Christopher Greenslate, 28, and Kerri Leonard, 29 - both high school teachers - who embarked on a 30 day ‘experiment’ to survive on a $1 a day diet.
I linked to the beginning of the project, as it’s been completed already and the newer entries in the blog are about all the press they’ve been receiving lately - which is awesome, as I hope...
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Obama's discarded logo ideas →
Interesting article on the logo development behind Obama’s campaign. It’s also interesting to note that the main people behind it had never worked on political logos before.
One last quote from the intervew:
“The strongest logos tell simple stories.”
If you get a chance, check out tonight’s full moon. It will be closer to Earth than it’s been since 1993 - 221,560 miles away, making it look 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than 2008’s other full moons.
Via BoingBoing.
On my christmas list, for sure.
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Rest In Peace, Miss Bettie Page…
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Scientists develop software that can map dreams →
The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep.
WTF?
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OBEY the plagiarist.... →
Well-researched and thorough article on Shepard Fairey’s rampant plagiarism. It’s one thing to appropiate images for social commentary (which OBEY claims to do) but in most cases, that image is represented in the artist’s style - not something that when placed over each other the original and the representation are the same.
Here’s another instance, this time from a...
Kopbusters Reality TV Show! →
Kopbusters is an online reality TV show that sets up corrupt cops who conduct illegal drug raids. In one of the episodes, they set up two small christmas trees in a house in Texas under grow lamps.
When faced with a suspected marijuana grow, the police usually use illegal FLIR cameras and/or lie on the search warrant affidavit claiming they have probable cause.
The trap was set and less than 24...
63 years ago today Flight 19, a training flight of TBM Avenger bombers, went missing while flying over what is commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle today. The impression is given that the flight encountered unusual phenomena and anomalous compass readings, and that the flight took place on a calm day under the supervision of an experienced pilot, Lt. Charles Carroll Taylor. Adding to the...
The page on the left is from a 1978 book called Nate the Great Goes Undercover, by Marc Simont. The poster of Emily the Strange on the right is from 1991.
Emily the Strange is a ripoff of a 1978 book.
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20 (More) Strange and Exotic Endangered Species →
This super cute Mexican Walking Fish, and several other strange animals are featured in this article - Check out the Giant Coconut Crab, they’re scary-looking, but really slow…
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Brenden’s last wish? To Feed the homeless.
“When I told him he was dying, he cried,” his mother recalled. “he said, ‘When I get to heaven I’m going to ask God why it had to be so soon because I had so much more I wanted to do.’
11 yr old Brenden died of leukemia on Nov. 21, 2008 in his mother’s arms - after inspiring many food drives, &...
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Neatorama has a fascinating article ‘10 Facts About Diamond You Should Know’ which is a great read. Most interesting to me was point #8, The Most Brilliant Advertising Campaign of All Time: A Diamond Is Forever - which details how DeBeers changed the image of diamonds in the 1930s through aggresive marketing strategies. They pretty much created the idea of the diamond...
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Where'd all the acorns go? →
Botanists are scratchings their heads over this year’s ‘bizarre’ absence of acorns in parts of the United States. For 2 1/2 miles, naturalists hiked through Northern Virginia oak and hickory forests. They sifted through leaves on the ground, dug in the dirt and peered into the tree canopies. Nothing.
There are accounts of crazed, starving squirrels attacking bird feeders,...
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Peak Population & Gen X →
Great article on how Generation X was the beggining of our planet’s era of peak human population, set to crest in the middle of this century. Simply put, the next twenty years are crucial - we need to develop a model for a zero-carbon, zero-waste civilization - our survival depends on it.
Point #3 is superb - the single best way of bringing down high birth rates is to empower women by...