This is for the folks at Boing Boing. It’s my iPod!… a nostalgic…um… mash-up of a vintage 1990’s boot box and a bunch of vintage 80’s and 90’s era cassette tapes for playing on my car cassette tape playing device. I hacked the box by removing the boots and wearing them for a number of […] More »
Before Bill Biggart was killed by the collapse of the second World Trade Center tower, he was able to take some amazing photos of the chaos at the disaster site and the destruction caused by the first tower’s collapse. Biggart, a New York photographer working for a picture agency, did not survive, but incredibly the […] More »
Brave, chilling journalism from Claire Hoffman in the LA Times Magazine last weekend. She spends a day with Joe Francis, founder of the third-wave feminism challenging Girls Gone Wild video porn empire. The eternal fratboy, Francis’ ability to talk barely 18 year old girls into lifting their shirts for the camera has made him super-rich […] More »
Hands up everyone who has bought a computer, cellphone, iPod or other electronic device in the past year. Pretty cool gadget you’ve got, isn’t it? Now, what happened to the item it replaced? Some of us probably threw the old device out, but others may find a growing pile of old electronics filling junk drawers, […] More »
The sweet irony of Sup Pop records is that the defiantly indie Seattle record label came to prominence during the era of Generation X disaffected slackerdom. Now eighteen years old and still repping some of the finest indie artists, the label has gone 100% green energy. That means that all energy consumed by the company […] More »
BabyTalk, a free publication in the U.S. aimed at new mothers hoping to illustrate the controversy surrounding public breastfeeding in the U.S. by publishing what is said to be the first American magazine cover to break the taboo about showing a woman’s breast, has done exactly that. According to this AFP report, 25% of some […] More »
From The Guardian online: Don’t look now Images I have seen recently include a close up of a suicide bomber exploding in two, an insurgent being shot through the head by an American sniper, full scale firefights between US patrols and insurgents plus endless images of body parts scattered about in the aftermath of the […] More »
image courtesy Slate magazine There’s a good debate going on over at the Euston Manifesto site concerning how the left should think about Israel/Lebanon. While the good folks of Euston figure out my opinion on that, I’ve been doing some more thinking about another of my geo-political preoccupations – Americanism, minus the anti. The following […] More »
I believe somewhere on this blog recently, our own Andrew Potter mocked my uncoolness re: appreciating the music of Bruce Springsteen. I think he doesn’t like saxophones, or moody, highway-based extended metaphors. I can take the mockery. I’ve always known Potter is cooler than me. Except now he has a new blog over at Maclean’s. […] More »
A small raise for civil servants may not seem like a big deal, but when you were elected on a promise of a more open and transparent government, quietly posting news of pay hikes for senior government officials on a departmental website seems a little odd. Such was the case this week in Ottawa, and […] More »