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If you heart art, you'll heart we*heart*prints. Fantastic!

Originally from hello, typepad, on March 1, 2006 04:31 PM

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Title: Pink Elephants Gallery: Tiny Showcase

Tiny Showcase has a new beautiful print by Andrea Offermann up today. Like always a percentage of the profits from the prints goes to charity, and they're selling out super fast! Update: They're sold out. Yes, already. I'm sad about it too.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 03:20 PM

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Title: Number One Gallery: Nucleus

Out of all of the wonderful prints from comic book artist and illustrator Kazy Kibuishi on Nucleus, this one is my favorite. Something about the tree and the little bunny rabbit spirit really gets to me.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 03:20 PM

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Title: Junks in Inatori Bay, Izu Gallery: Ohmi Gallery

I LOVE this print. Then again I am also obsessed with any sort of ship that even vaguely reminds me of pirate ships and Goonies and Pirates of the Caribbean. Made from a woodblock created in 1926, this particular print was made in the 40s/50s, and also happens to be one of the more expensive pieces out of the many prints for sale at Ohmi Gallery. Typical prices for individual prints are around a couple of hundred dollars, and there are many many more prints, everything from snowy japanese landscapes to images of geishas to more modern, abstract prints.

Originally from we[heart]prints, on March 1, 2006 03:19 PM

wikipedia: Octavia Estelle Butler (6/22/1947-2/24/2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of very few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards, and was the first sf writer ever to be a recipient of the MacArthur F

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 02:56 PM

Playing to the backlash against ubiquitous communication, a company called Natural Nano is developing a special high-tech paint that relies on the wizardry of nanotechnology to create a system that locks out unwanted cell phone signals on demand. Newsday reports. "NaturalNano has found a way to use nanotechnology to blend particles of copper into paint that can be brushed onto walls and effectively deflect radio signals. NaturalNano will combine this signal-blocking paint scheme with a radio-filtering device that collects phone signals from outside a shielded space, allowing certain transmissions to proceed while blocking others. It appears to be lefal (jamming devices that emit radio signals to prevent cell phones are against the law) - The radio filter would allow all emergency radio communications to pass through the shield With all other signals, like cell phones, the filter would act like a spigot to block or allow them to pass through—say, only during intermission.

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on March 1, 2006 02:54 PM

Tana of Small Farms blog has created a nifty map of chefs and farmers in the San Francisco/Monterey Bay area who directly support support local/sustainable agriculture....

Originally from A Full Belly, on March 1, 2006 01:30 PM

The restaurant industry is notoriously difficult. Margins are narrow, competition is tough, and restaurant operators are frequently held hostage to rising prices for energy and commodities. (In this study, nearly 60 percent of restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, failed over a three-year period.) But as an investment, restaurants are doing better than ever. Chipotle, which was spun out of McDonald's, went public in January at $22 a share and essentially doubled the first day. It has since tacked on a couple of points. Earlier this month, Morton's served up a juicy public offering. Several well-known eateries are on the IPO runway: Burger King filed for an IPO on Feb. 16. Donut chain Tim Horton's, a unit of Wendy's, will likely go public next month. Gordon Biersch, a 25-restaurant beer-and-fine-food chain, has likewise announced its intent to sell shares.

In theory, restaurants are a highly cyclical industry, dependent largely on discretionary spending. But in recent years, restaurants have grown faster than the economy as a whole. The National Restaurant Association forecasts that industry sales will rise 5.1 percent in 2006. Data from the Census Bureau shows that seasonally adjusted restaurant and bar sales have risen for eight straight months through January 2006. (SLATE)

Originally from Agenda Inc. Live Feed, on March 1, 2006 01:30 PM

One of Joystiq's writers notes that Hot Coffee appeared on his Business and Public Policy exam.

Hot Coffee is a lesson for MBA students

The final question on the exam was on the topic of the Hot Coffee fiasco that rocked Rockstar last fall.

Originally from Sex & Games, on March 1, 2006 01:29 PM

The wisdom of Henry David Thoreau.

Originally posted by tima from tima thinking outloud., on March 1, 2006 01:29 PM

Originally from unmediated, on March 1, 2006 11:35 AM

Help Jed Berk finding ideas about what to do with peculiar geographical data generated by wherifywireless:

Write him there: berk (at) artcenter (dot) edu

If you’re curious about what jed berk does with animal data, have a look at his project COWdata:

This is an ongoing project, begun in 1995. The idea was conceived while standing in a cow field, thinking of my self as a cow. What emerged is a documentation of a peripatetic bovine, calmly observing life, as it is, in our global environment. The project represents a study in time and is added to on a continual basis. Over the course of the past ten years a considerable archive has been achieved.
I used the data to help realize patterns within the data to help determent new direction(s) for the future of the project.
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My first consideration in gathering this data was to find a way to organize the documentation of the cow photos. I tuned to flickr, an online photo management and sharing application; that offers a good tool set for organizational purposes.
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-Time line (10 years) or in parts
-Behavior, tendencies and narratives
-About the herd
-The time when pictures are not taken
-The places they go
-Night picture vs. daytime
-Time of year (seasonal)
-Favorites
-Participants in the project (other people contributing photos)
-Geographic location
-Dates of travel
-Patterns of recurrence,
-The unknown images?

Then he investigated the relationship between the horizon lines in relation to the placement of cows.

Originally posted by Nicolas from pasta and vinegar, on March 1, 2006 11:34 AM

This article reports China has detained a man "after he sent text messages telling people of a new case of water pollution,media reported on Thursday. Zhou Qinghai was detained by police for "reporting faulty alarms and making chaos" in Mudanjiang in northeastern Heilongjiang province,the scene of the country's worst water pollution in recent years after an explosion at a chemical pant in November in neighbouring Jilin.
Zhou sent text messages warning people of a possible water cutoff for three or four days after he overheard people talking on a bus about the contamination of the city water source and saw reports by local media questioning the quality of water,the Beijing News said.
He was detained this week, the newspaper said, without saying if he would be charged or giving other details. The "faulty information" had caused "bad social influence", and city residents had been rushing to buy and store water since Monday after an unidentified pollutant was found in the water supply. Xinhua news agency later identified it as a fungus caused by industrial waste. But the taps had not been turned off in the city as water samples had shown the supply to be normal,it added. Environmental degradation,from filthy air in the cities to toxic slicks in the rivers, has become one of the key issues sparking social unrest in China".

Originally from YouMeiTI 有媒体, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

david posted a photo:

Wed 01/03/2006 10:56 01032006207

Originally from david's Photos, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

T!: Gotta SHIT or defend your THESIS?:

Originally from Hi Tricia!, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

Regardless of whether or not the Wachowski's forthcoming movie take on graphic novel V For Vendetta is any good, the promotional artwork is undoubtedly fantastic. Concept Arts has stayed true to British artist David Lloyd's original comic book creations, many of which are going on show in London at The Guardian's newsroom from next Tuesday, 7 March 2006. As part of the ten-day exhibition, the man himself will be talking about his work on Monday, 13 March 2006. Eager fanboys are likely to snap up the tickets quick-sharp, but if you fancy going, email newsroom [at] guardian [dot] co [dot] uk.

via Londonist.

TAGS: Art, Design, London, News, Events, Film,

Originally from Cool Hunting, on March 1, 2006 11:33 AM

Starchef.com talks to San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino about sustainable eating in, Head to Tail.

'Sustainable eating,' according to Chef Cosentino’s eco-friendly culinary sensibility towards food and its preparation, encompasses the use of sustainably grown produce, humane animal husbandry, and an overall obsession with care and respect for the planet and the environment. 'Head to tail' cooking can be traced back to just about every cultural cuisine in the world, such as the Native American community who wasted no part of the buffalo.

I am a believer in sustainable eating as well, and have been trying to eat locally for a long time. More recently I've been adding the "whole animal" approach to my dining, both at home and while out. And I'll admit, it's a bit of a challenge. The other night I was having some friends over for dinner, so I decided I'd make this chicken liver mousse recipe from Gourmet (Feb 06). It was my first real experience with chicken livers. Previously my interaction with them involved removing them from the chicken, prior to roasting, and throwing them in the trash. Once I put them in a baggie and froze them.

I bought approximately a pound of fresh organic chicken livers at Whole Foods. I "cleaned" them, which I had no idea really how to do and ended up with a rather bloody mess on my cutting board as I removed some veins and fat. Honestly, it turned my stomach, but I forced myself to do it if I wanted to be a real "chef". Once that was done, it was pretty much smooth sailing, except that I put all the ingredients in a shallow bowl, and when I put my hand blender in and turned it on, some bloody liver bits went flinging out and stuck themselves to various appliances (toaster, stand mixer) and kitchen items (tea kettle, tiles) and clothing (my green sweater, should have worn a white coat!).

Aside from the horror filmness of it all, the mousse turned out lovely and was a delicious opening to a delightful dinner. I plan to make it again, and to experiment with other animal parts, and to continue to eat them when I'm out to dinner as well. That is, at least, until something goes horribly wrong and I eat something so gross that I revert to vegetarianism forever.

Originally from megnut, on March 1, 2006 11:32 AM

Originally posted by inkdroid from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 10:34 AM

Forum for the Introverted Lonely and Over-Sensitive Group.

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 10:33 AM

theses=feces

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 10:33 AM

If you think that there's more to Youth Media online than myspace, you will probably enjoy Tricia's new blog YouMeiTI, humbly defined as "Exploring the nexus of Chinese Youth culture, Media, Technology and Information within a global context."

There's more! My friends at evc just released their long awaited curriculum for teaching documentary. And if you like that, the excellent Youth Media Distribution Toolkit is a still available.

Originally from hello, typepad, on March 1, 2006 09:33 AM

Google has launched a new serivceto their mobile offering, reports Search Engine Journal, Google News Mobile, in beta. In their own words: Google News for mobile devices keeps you updated on current news articles when you're on the go. You can access top headlines, browse through news categories, or search for exactly the stories you want . Currently Google News Mobile is only available for access to English language news sources, but Google is planning on expansion.

Originally posted by emily from textually.org, on March 1, 2006 08:48 AM

Canon, Sony, and Nikon top the list of the most-used camera on Flickr. Nokia is #11.

Originally posted by jkottke from kottke.org remaindered links, on March 1, 2006 08:47 AM

Harold Lee uploaded this picture, allweb2, representing the entirety of China's blogosphere.
Issacmao writes this looks like China's Web 2.0 (这是中国的Web 2.0 Logo “大全”吗?).
I think this looks like the beginnings of a fashion line desgined by youth bloggers :) - using what else but the logos from Harold's allweb2. here is the predecessor of China's Web 2.0 image. And this image is best accompanied by a reading from Internet Society of China's finding on Web 2.0

Originally from YouMeiTI 有媒体, on March 1, 2006 08:47 AM

３月まで SF なので参加できませんでした。See you in YAPC!

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 08:46 AM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 08:46 AM

The acquisition of the personal archive of William S. Burroughs will make the Berg Collection perhaps the premier institution for the study of the Beats.

Originally from NYT > Arts, on March 1, 2006 08:44 AM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 08:44 AM

"spontaneity and variation like this are what's missing from most games today"

Originally posted by rgreco from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 08:43 AM

Originally from Tuberaider Video, on March 1, 2006 08:42 AM

[Part of Mr. Sun's UNC v. Duke Saturation Coverage]

Attention, ladies who are currently undecided in the UNC v. Duke war.

Linnea Smith is famous for her lifelong fight against the objectification of women, a cause which her husband Dean and the entire Carolina basketball family fully support!

"Coach K," on the other hand, rhymes with "Dice Clay," a well known misogynist famous for demeaning women. Purty Boy Dookie Christian Laettner looked like a woman, but was in fact a meanie who stepped on a Kentucky player before hitting the all-time luckiest fluke shot ever. He also kills innocent fish. It is a well-known fact that mean people suck, and what goes around comes around.

Don't mind those magazines in my closet, doll. I've been helping Dr. Smith with her research. I know I don't have to. I want to, baby. You know, Dr. Smith says that by trying some of the things in those awful magazines we gain power over them. Come over here and bring the third magazine from the top with you. That's a very dirty one and it makes me feel so powerless.

Originally from Mr. Sun!, on March 1, 2006 08:42 AM

Yesterday, I e-mailed Ladybird and asked her a few questions. She answered them promptly, so here is the interview.
For those who have no idea who Ladybird is, she's been making waves all over the art blogosphere with her moss graffiti.. Her best works appropriate cracks in the ground and in walls, where she puts weeds and insects on display. Best described as "folk surrealism," she inspires childlike wonder with her fake beetles and insect houses. She subverts the cracks and potholes of modernity with her miniature dreamscapes.

Originally from Tiki RSS feed for articles, on March 1, 2006 08:41 AM

Originally posted by ezrakilty from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on March 1, 2006 08:41 AM

The Smithsonian National Museum of American History has begun an initiative to collect a broad array of artifacts (including oral histories) about Hip Hop Culture and music.

Originally from Rebecca's Pocket, on March 1, 2006 08:41 AM

SlashLinks is a tool developed by Eyebeam R&D for automatically mirroring links from the popular social-bookmarking service del.icio.us to your personal or institutional website. Posting, tagging, and management still occur within the del.icio.us interface, but design and layout can now be fully customized on your mirrored site. The tool also adds blog-like year/month/day archives (similar to Kottke.org's remaindered links) to the typical del.icio.us or flickr style tag browsing.

Originally from unmediated, on March 1, 2006 08:40 AM

As mobile phones become more powerful and pervasive, it was inevitable that they’d spawn the same kind of homebrew hacking culture as computers and the Internet. While the locked-down nature of cell phones and the closemindedness of wireless carriers has stunted that culture’s growth, a few developments are afoot that promise to give a big boost to DIY mobile programming. Whereas programmers must typically pick up platform-specific skills to develop for mobile, a number of ways for independent and casual developers and even enthusiasts to use skills they’ve already got—or can relatively easily learn—to build applications.

Gizmodo: Airtime

See also: Python for Series 60

Originally posted by Thomas (mailto:desktop@angermann2.com) from angermann2, on March 1, 2006 08:39 AM

Cartographic bonanza @
RADICAL CARTOGRAPHY

Related: Portapak Era on PDF

Via fake

Originally posted by Thomas (mailto:desktop@angermann2.com) from angermann2, on March 1, 2006 08:39 AM

Macworld’s Jason Snell was a big fan of the original Mac mini. So what’s his take on the new, Intel-based version?

Originally from Macworld, on March 1, 2006 08:37 AM

ZoneTag can automatically tag your photos with the location they were taken at.

Originally from unmediated, on March 1, 2006 08:35 AM

Jets seating four to six passengers will soon open new travel opportunities at small airports, the agency said.

Originally from NYT > Home Page, on March 1, 2006 08:34 AM