April 30, 2006

Does this train go to 9/11?
I've had this problem too - it's all just an attraction, now (via)
If you haven't seen Stephen Colbert's keynote at the White House Correspondents' dinner, you should. Here is Part 1 and Part 2 (transcript)

April 28, 2006

Check out Mike and Rion, an Paris-based ex-pat blog by Mike (ne Meccapixel) and Rion
If the USA was occupied by a foreign nation, What would we have done?
read the comments, more reasons not to dig on the French; the Brits turned tail and over the Channel before Germany had finished with France, and have been constantly invaded by everyone from the Romans, the French, and the Dutch, so why do Americans make fun of the French?

Haunting photo essay about Chernobyl
photographer Paul Fusco exclaims that he felt he was examining "a different race of people"

Some Residents of Silver Spring, MD are upset about American Apparel's "Racy" Photos
Gothamist's coverage of Satmar Grand Rebbe Death
again, the Hasidim are so interesting and such a part of Brooklyn, this is big news

Amazingly succinct overview of how Phone companies want to take over the Internet over at TPM
AT&T, Verizon, and a host of others want to make the Internet into a bunch of gated communities, don't let it happen

The Golden Fire Hydrant (photo) which saved the Mission

didn't see this during my tribute

I swore I saw this before but the Urban Ninja is pretty sweet
via Waxy, check out these Sesame Street Video Clips, especially R.E.M.'s Furry Happy Monsters, the The Yip Yip Martians meet a telephone (classic), and Big Bird misses Mr. Hooper (still hard to watch)
while you are at it, check out this MetaFilter thread with more videos

A photoessay: Serial No. 3817131
photos of Israeli female soldiers during their mandatory two-year military service
New York Times on the Surviving Huge Quake, and Century That Followed
For a good over view of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, check out the PBS special The Great San Francisco Earthquake, part of the great American Experience series
The San Andreas Fault goes out to sea at Point Reyes National Seashore and is one of the most beautiful landscape in America. Check out Flickr Photos tagged with Point Reyes
1906 San Francisco Earthquake Photographs
From the USGS: Quake: 1906 San Francisco Quake

Molly the Cat Alive!
finally, the cat trapped in a wall is rescued... time for the silly season

Dark Miracle, about Trinity test site and the Manhattan Project, is a successful example of micropatronage which we will see more examples of

Net neutrality amendment shot down
welcome to the two-tiered Internet - the telcos would have killed the Internet if thay had a chance in the beginning, relegating the world into Compuserve-verse and AOL-verse (can anyone say IM?). Now that the cat is out of the bag, they want to put it back, and then kill it
An Art-History Professor Explains to His 4-Year-Old Daughter Why the Fair Market Value of Her Picture Is Actually Far Less Than That of a Thousand Words
If you haven't seen this Chappelle episode, you should: I'm Wayne Bradey, Bitch!
Underground Station Breaks - using Zoetrope in the subway to show advertisements
this happens on the PATH also, as I found out last month riding to Hoboken for the first time

Hasidim Riot! Hasidim Protest Cellphone-While-Driving Arrest
Number 1 rule: Don't Fuck with the Hasidim

Extremely well-written article on Scientology by Rolling Stone (via)
I should start my own ~~tax shelter~~ religion, too
Design Observer has a great gallery of New York Magazine's High Priority Section
New York Magazine constantly produces top-tier design which often goes ignored