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EBN’s Syncopated Ordinance Demonstration #1, from 1992, is a video/audio rhythmic collage of, well, explosions. EBN stands for Emergency Broadcast Network, a ragtag group of RISD grads. (thx, phaelem)
(0) #9/12/2006
Publicized sex baiting
The results of several recent sex baiting experiments on Craigslist, where the experimenter puts up fabricated sex postings and analyzes the responses. One of the experimenters published every response, with photos, uncensored. Two questions are asked: 1) Can the experimenter be sued for revealing information that has a reasonable expectation of privacy? 2) How will this affect the cavalier behavior of adults sending nude photos to strangers on the web? (via kottke)
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This has been around for awhile, but I found this photographic series on southern Nevada by South Philly photographer Zoe Strauss to be interesting. If only I had something better than a 5-year-old low-end digital camera, I’d go out of the city to snap more desert photos myself.
(0) #9/8/2006
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Amanda Palmer, of The Dresden Dolls, blogs about her recent reprisal of her role as “The Bride” in Harvard Square. This one is really for those that remember seeing her street performances in Harvard Square in the late 90’s, back before her band acquired some fame.
(0) #9/7/2006
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Borat has a pretty amazing MySpace page.
Age - for 23 harvests I have had hair on pubis… I like also song of C&C Music Manufacturing Plant ‘Everybody Dancing Now’.
(thx, humberto)
(0) #9/7/2006
electoral-vote.com 2006
electoral-vote.com, the most popular election web site in 2004, is back for the 2006 elections. Ah, there’s something so satisfying in seeing that U.S. map again, color-coded by party. Note that it has the Nevada Senate race leaning GOP, because of a recent Zogby poll showing Jack Carter (Jimmy’s son) inching up on John Ensign. (Although conventional wisdom here (which I don’t put all my stock in) questions the veracity of that poll.)
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A detailed explanation of how stingrays can (rarely) kill. I’d like to say that Steve Irwin died doing what he loved, but it sounds like a potentially agonizing death. (via rw)
(0) #9/4/2006
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Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which was stolen in Oslo in 2004, has been recovered. More importantly to me, his “Madonna” painting was recovered as well.
(0) #8/31/2006
49 Up
And continuing in the trailer department, here’s the one for 49 Up, the seventh installment of the British “Up” series by Michael Apted, who has released a documentary every seven years following the lives of the same group of people. I haven’t seen any of them, but Ebert has called the collective series one of the greatest films of all time.
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Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), was arrested in Nevada just north of Las Vegas. I’ve written about Jeffs and his community before.
(0) #8/29/2006
Wallace on Federer
David Foster Wallace writes about the “religious experience” of watching Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer in action. I was lucky to see one of his matches from a very close distance at the US Open several years back. He was astounding. Wallace:
Pitchfork’s 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960’s
Pitchfork wraps up their weeklong feature listing the 200 greatest songs of the 1960’s. The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” takes the cake, followed by The Jackson 5 (“I Want You Back”), Sam Cooke (“A Change Is Gonna Come”), Bob Dylan (“Like a Rolling Stone”), and The Beatles (“A Day in the Life”).
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Jordan Ellenberg on the importance of proving the Poincaré conjecture. Reclusive Russian Grigory Perelman announced a proof several years ago, which only recently has finished going through the peer-review ringer.
(0) #8/18/2006
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Roger Ebert writes his first public missive regarding his recovery from salivary cancer and the subsequent blood vessel rupture. I’ve sorely missed his presence during the past six weeks – I’ve been reading him regularly for well over ten years now.
(0) #8/17/2006
