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Adorn
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
links for 2008-05-01
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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“There is a constant murmur, hollow and deep: the traffic. And another sound, intermittent: the wind. It comes in gusts, and in the pauses I can hear it sighing, far away, against other skyscrapers.”
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“Air pollution is killing the smell of flowers, possibly eliminating the ’scent trail’ that helps guide those terribly important pollinators, like bees, to the plants that depend upon them for survival, scientists believe.”
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“…exquisitely renovated 1913 Tudor house, with six fireplaces, a solarium and a billiards room, which is well within their means, in part because they paid $65,000.”
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Brilliant!
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Prison-camp pseudo-democracy: “The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.”
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“It’s a grassroots movement to get Nike to make available to consumers the futuristic-looking sneakers seen in the 1989 movie Back to the Future Part 2.”
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“…100 wines under $15 consistently outperformed their upscale cousins.”
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“Find your favorite beer or bar in NYC.”
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Paul Chan!
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The Frugal Traveler in Kyoto!
links for 2008-04-17
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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Bridge Cafe on Water Street opened in 1847.
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“The only reason it hasn’t gone the way of other lamps is simply that it hasn’t broken, fallen over, or been hit by a car.
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Great book on the indie rock lifestyle.
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“Its correct name is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, though … oceanographers had another label for it: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. …some 3 million tons of plastic junk sitting on the surface of the gyre, with six times that much bobbing under
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“At this summer’s Beijing Olympics, China puts a 50-year experiment to the test: Officials are betting weather modification can keep the sun shining on the Games.”
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“We decided to pick our favorite posts from our favorite blogs and sing them, in a sort of concept album mixtape.”
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“Schalalala is a fan-scarf remix project, offering you a multi-valued articulation tool.”
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“A chap at the back bar of the Kings Arms, with long hair, sports jacket (slight rip in shoulder seam) and a pint of Waggle Dance at his elbow, is holding forth…”
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“There is no question that Prague has chosen — at least for its public face — not to dwell on the Communist era.”
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“Kraftwerk and the linked Dusseldorf groups made a connection between German romanticism and Teutonic efficiency, allied it to a kind of tribute to 1950s whitebread America, and thrived on the resultant political ambiguity.”
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“The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space, creating works that are not only gorgeous from the point of view of graphic design, but also exhibit scientific rigor and precision in their formulation…”
links for 2008-04-09
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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“Their prevalence during recessions; baseball and the hangover; the search for a cure; are all hangovers bad?”
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“He wants my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go.’”
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“The house is off-limits to children, and adults are asked to sign a waiver when they enter. The main concern is the concrete floor, which rises and falls like the surface of a vast, bumpy chocolate chip cookie.”
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From NYC show “Stairway to Stardom.”
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“The classified budget of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly doubled in the Bush years, to $32 billion.”
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“Although the service, called TXTmob, was widely used by demonstrators, reporters and possibly even police officers, little was known about its inventors.”
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“Over the weekend, on a select group of subway lines, a group of subway stewardesses tried to introduce straphangers a more civilized commute.”
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“Hey. The last couple albums really stunk. Finally, we’ve recaptured our glory and made something special.”
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Insane.
links for 2008-04-02
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
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“Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.”
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“An unknown artist fashions animals out of plastic bags and fastens them to subway gratings, and the hot air inflates them and makes them puff up and wiggle.”
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“‘I’m going to call my wife and say, the Dukes of Hazzard are here,’ said a man sitting alone at the bar. ‘She’ll say, you’re drunk!’”
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“The only thing I don’t care for in this lyric is the ‘calcified charismatist’ — it just feels too clever. I’m known to make up words but this is too heavy-handed.”
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“…the only bump on the road was the aroma emanating from the black plastic bags that Jack’s and other 99-cent stores use: they smell alternately like an electrical fire or a fish in transition.” Bring your own bag, jack!
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“Galleries were once known for the artists they exhibit. Now they’re known for the clientele they represent. So they make more profit, but they have less power and influence.”
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“Founded in San Francisco in 1969 Ant Farm could be regarded today as a very effective mix between Archigram, the Rolling Stones and The Yes Men.”
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Drum Buddy!
links for 2008-03-24
Monday, March 24th, 2008
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“The Esherick house. 1961. Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. For Sale at Wright, May 18, 2008 in Chicago. Estimated at $2–3 million.”
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright vs. Pastor John Hagee.
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“It’s been said that every time I sing a song I’m sabotaging a perfectly good song.”
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“No one hears you when you say you’re sick of Paris.”
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“Apparently, the AP erroneously reported at 6:35EST that Bush resigned over, of all things, plagiarism. It’s like getting Capone for tax evasion.”
links for 2008-03-16
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
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Previously unreleased song.
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Alabama biodiesel plant fouls river.
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“It’s ‘the baby bust,’ ‘the birth dearth,’ ‘the graying of the continent’: modern euphemisms for old-fashioned race panic…”
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Notably Tyler Green’s takedown of Voice critic Christian Viveros-Faune.
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Baker details his Wiki obsession. Good read.
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Nice Jen Bekman profile.
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Great slideshow on mid-century masterpieces by Sarinen and others. That Pepsico campus looks sweet.
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“Someone’s been eating Hall and Oatesmeal.”
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“More that 900,000 people are currently listed as suspected terrorists on the US government’s “do not fly” list, and that number will grow to beyond 1 million by summer, says the American Civil Liberties Union.”
links for 2008-02-27
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
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Dutch artist Desiree Palmen.
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The year’s best cinematography. Their #1 differs from the Oscar’s pick of Robert Elswit for “There Will Be Blood.”
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The B-52s’ “There’s a Monster in My Pants”!
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“Holy freakin’ crap, why has no one told me The Pepsi Pavilion at the 1970 World Expo in Osaka was an origami rendition of a geodesic dome; obscured in a giant mist cloud produced by an all-encompassing capillary net…”
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“…she became famous, or infamous, in the art world mostly as a muse and a co-conspirator of more prominent artists like Ray Johnson, with whom she staged impromptu happenings on Manhattan streets.”
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“…Paranoia magazine. It’s an incredible magazine, founded in 1992, circulation 15,000, published three times a year and packed with the kind of information that the mainstream media won’t tell you because they are part of them.”
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One pill makes you larger…
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“It is noticeable that finance-capital, the dominant sector of the US ruling class, appears to be swinging hard behind both Democrats…”
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Origins of Tiny Telephone.
links for 2008-02-19
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Error message from says search query “looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware…”
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“To find an injunction similar to the Cayman’s case, we need to go back to Monday June 15, 1971 when the New York Times published excepts of of Daniel Ellsberg’s leaked ‘Pentagon Papers’ and found itself enjoined the following day. The Wikileaks injunctio
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EconomicIndicators.gov shuttered due to “budgetary constraints.”
links for 2008-02-18
Monday, February 18th, 2008
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“If you like the art inside, you can call the artist’s phone number on the cards lying around. You could also steal it.”
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“Having spent over 20 years in North Brooklyn, Mr. Harvey, 53, is a kind of elder statesman, an original scene-ster fondly acting as mentor to the next wave.”
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Deitch: “The only place where you can get a clear view of art from 1950 to the present, it’s only at Christie’s and Sotheby’s [Christie’s sponsored the talk].”
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“Semicolon sightings in the city are unusual, period, much less in exhortations drafted by committees of civil servants. In literature and journalism, not to mention in advertising, the semicolon has been largely jettisoned as a pretentious anachronism.”
links for 2008-02-11
Monday, February 11th, 2008
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Pay € 30 and have a Palestinian graffiti artist spray a custom message on the Israeli West Bank barrier.
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Hitch is maybe the most articulate and intelligent speaker I’ve ever heard. And they put him up against some awful rabbi who reads a script. No sport in that.
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Although the screenwriter intended “more than one lifetime.” Studio execs didn’t like that.
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“It was a fascinating appearance, not only to hear Stern praise her for her beauty, and question her motivation, but to hear his surprise when she explained that she made good money making art.”









