Infoporn: 2008 Prez Candidate Positions
Based on the Political Compass test. Pretty sweet — via Crooks and Liars.
View ArticleOn Loving Conformity
Notes from the forthcoming “PoPoMo Manifesto” – Dorothy Gambrell’s Cat and Girl, if you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, is a webcomic diamond in the rough. I was reading through the archives...
View ArticleFrom the Dated Music Videos Worth Obssessing Over Department
Seamus Haiji’s Remix of “DJ Saved My Life” RuPaul’s Redo of “It’s Raining Men” Pointer Sisters “I’m So Excited” More ridiculousness, after the jump. Cyndi Lauper — “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”...
View ArticleAnother Two Rounds of Dork and the Ivy
More Dork and the Ivy today, pretty even day of fighting. Hwang +1, Chen +1. It’s getting prohibitively long — so we might be moving the ongoing competition to its own separate blog. Stay tuned...
View ArticleThe Gallery of Inept Child Outreach
Brought to you by your friends at the US government. 1) ReadyKids! (Department of Homeland Security) 2) AMSville, brought to you by the US Department of Agriculture More insanity, after the jump 3)...
View ArticleThe Gettysburg Powerpoint
More reasons why Powerpoint rocks out. This reminds me a little of that old nerd parlor game where you take a famous speech and use Word’s Autosummarize feature to generate these awesomely surreal...
View ArticleThe Untold Genius of Jazzuo
Ah — the Internet, home to such amateur media genius/tinkerers as David Firth and Joel Veitch. …and “Jazzuo” — author of the completely inexplicable game Sexy Hiking. Details on the creator are...
View ArticlePatron Saints
I mean, really… Who knew there were so many of them? Some favorites: -Albinus of Angers, Patron Saint Against Pirate Attack -Julian the Hospitaller, Patron Saint of Circus Workers -Marculf, Patron...
View ArticleTerrorism As A Design Problem
Stevie Levitt, writer of Freakonomics and kind-of-a-big-deal in the Cool Economics arena, recently did a fairly interesting op-ed with the NYT where he discusses how one goes about designing effective...
View ArticleHiatus Time
I’ll be out all this week on a family trip to Turkey, so, TSIB will be officially on hiatus-mode until next week, Sept 5th. I’ll be sure to drop a photo or two if I can grab some semi-reliable internet...
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