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Web Sites for Journalists is a virtual Times Square for media junkies. Check out the shameless use of table borders! thanks, memepool.
Web Sites for Journalists is a virtual Times Square for media junkies. Check out the shameless use of table borders! thanks, memepool.
“I was confused, dazed, numb. A few minutes later stomach pains kicked in. Racist shit is hurtful, insulting, and intolerable. I was uncomfortable with white colleagues. Resentful. I couldn’t talk about the verdict. … White Americans really believe that their anger over the acquittal matters to us. They think that because we don’t challenge their racism that it doesn’t exist.” Wista Jeanne Johnson writes about the Diallo verdict for the Village Voice.
Phil Greenspun’s online photo-illustrated Travels with Samantha makes me long for the open road and the beautiful countryside my wife and I saw on our honeymoon. Her favorite spot was Yellowstone. I’ll never forget skinny-dipping in Lake Powell.
Ars Technica gets its hands wet with the Aqua-fied Mac OS X Developer Preview 3.
“In 47 visits over 12 months, Fred Charles set up his tripod and panoramic camera in precisely the same spot at Dr. Davies Farm, a Congers, N.Y., apple orchard. His assignment: to follow an identical landscape through the shifting seasons.” For the resulting photograph, he stitched together 12 shots into one stunning montage.
More photos of Mount Mayon, including an image of a cloud of ash rising seven miles into the sky!
The BBC has a glossary of US political terms—designed for those watching the election from abroad, but useful for anyone who (like myself) didn’t pay enough attention in civics class. Haven’t you been wondering for example what exactly a caucus is? (Briefly, “a private meeting of party members designed to seek agreement on delegates for a state or national nominating convention based on which candidate they wish to support”.)
I found a couple of decent comic review sites today. Actually, I found quite a few sites which review mainstream books, but I’m not interested in getting back into the Marvel or DC universes—they suck you in and make you want to read every title. The Mad Review covers mostly mainstream stuff but also includes some independent books, and the reviews have a level of sophistication I haven’t seen anywhere else. I haven’t heard of any of the current crop of titles at Johanna Draper Carlson’s Comics Worth Reading, and that’s a good thing. I was intrigued (and confused) by the first couple of issues of the Invisibles, but decided not to pick it up. Recently though, Barbelith’s incredible Invisibles site and an article I read about Grant’s speech at the Disinfo 2000 convention have convinced me to buy the Invisibles graphic novels when I can.
Mount Mayon is erupting in the Philippines. I want to learn to maintain a sense of awe and respect for the natural world—after all, humans are really pretty powerless in a lot of ways, though many societies go to great lengths to insulate themselves from that truth. What has Mount Mayon been up to lately?
“Feb 22 - Fresh magma is slowly but steadily ascending in Mayon’s plumbing system."
“Feb 24 - The volcano erupted and superheated ash rained seven miles away. Lava with temperatures that reached well above 1,000 degrees cascaded 3 1/2 miles down the volcano’s slopes at 50 mph.” - Volcano World
“Feb 28 - the build up of magma is continuing to push its way up to the crater. He said that boulders as big as cars were being shot 1,640 feet into the sky.” - Discovery Earth Alert
“The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said there were strong indications that the volcano will remain active over the next few weeks. Ernesto Corpuz, head of the institute’s eruption prediction division, said: ‘This is not yet the big one.'” - BBC News
This week I noticed that the days are getting longer. I won’t have that feeling again for a year or so, but this year I still get to notice when: the days are really long; the days are longer than I ever remembered they could get; the nights are getting chilly; the mornings are getting chilly; it’s time to start wearing sweaters; and it’s getting dark early.
caught in between is required reading.
It sucks to have to remove two great links today. My day took a turn for the worse when I received an email announcing that World New York would no longer be published (say it isn’t so!) and then just as I had rediscovered bOING bOING (who is this Mark Frauenfelder and why does everything he touch turn to cool?) I found a note indicating that TV-ULTRA is on hiatus less like Freaks and Geeks is on hiatus and more like Peanuts is on hiatus.
Wow. I’ve been meaning to put together a nice thoughtful post dense with links to all kinds of culture-jamming-media-activist sites but first monday has been nice enough to go me about 10 better. Their Hacking Memes article is quite comprehensive, covering memes, ad jamming, the information war, commercials in classrooms, online activism, and even fan fiction. For good measure (otherwise it would drive me crazy) I’ll throw in a few choice links here, with no grammatical or syntactical support: Adbusters, the Culture-Jammers Encyclopedia, Disinformation, the Billboard Liberation Front, Survival Research Laboratories. thanks, found objects.
I can’t believe how excited I am about the 50 new quarters being minted over the next nine years. Coinworld.com has a sneak peek at the designs of some quarters which haven’t been issued yet. I think I’m going to have to get The Official United States Mint 50 State Quarters Collector’s Map—“A topographical state map of the United States with patented push-fit holders in which to collect all 50 State Quarters from circulation. What fun for a child(or you!) to hunt for and collect each new quarter out of pocket change!”
Kestrel’s Nest solved a mystery I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks—the Shonen Knife website had been appearing in his referrer logs too, and Anita informs us that it’s a fake entry left by the Proxomitron, a “universal Web filter” (Windows only) written by a Shonen Knife fan.
No More Prisons has links to several sources of news and analysis on the Diallo verdict (not guilty on all counts). The best quote I’ve found: “‘The courts have made a very clear decision that the taking of a life of an African-American because of the created fears of white officers is permissible in the state of New York,’ said Lt. Eric Adams, co-founder of the group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.”
With apologies to Shel Silverstein, check out Where the Internet Ends. Ok, not really. Much more fun awaits at the 404 Research Lab.
Iconfactory has announced the winners of Pixelpalooza, its annual icon design contest. The Iconfactory icons are very well done (and some are truly beautiful), but none of them can touch the Mozco !Garash! icons—far and away the best I’ve ever seen.
Monkey Fist (which rocks) notes that there are a slew of “white pride” clubs on Yahoo which violate the Yahoo Terms of Service (section 6a, specifically). You can encourage Yahoo to enforce these terms with an email.
MacAddict is running a comparison of Mac Napster clients, “currently the best way to get MP3s.” thanks, macsurfer.
But can Tama climb a tree when AIBO chases her? thanks, slashdot.
It had to happen: m3tacubed. “What was missing, it occurred to me, was a place that listed some of the better lists of weblogs, so that people could identify the best places to identify the best places to identify the best places to go for actual content.” My brain hurts. thanks, running tally.
Minute Books presents Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Valentine Michael Smith: You people would cure all society’s ills if you’d just “grow closer” to your friends. People: You sick dog. (stone him) Valentine Michael Smith: I don’t get it. Truly, I am a STRANGER in a STRANGE LAND. (dies) thanks, metafilter.
Marlys Magazine carries Lynda Barry’s “Ernie Pook’s Comeek” on the web, updated weekly for your enjoyment. thanks, robotwisdom.
