25 November, 2008
Labels from 78 rpm records ...
...over the decades - via Mefi.
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Attach bacon to your hard-drive
...over the decades - via Mefi.
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A lot of effort went into putting up this Under Construction sign!
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100 funny and unusual 404 error pages.
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Jonas Bendiksen takes us on a journey from Bombay to Nairobi to Caracas and Jakarta.
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Covers, Portraits & an article by Hitchens.
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A Mefi post with links to “Unusual books. Unusual art made from books. Unusual bookcover. Unusual bookshelves. Unusual bookstore.”
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If you love Vonnegut, and tattoos too, this is what you do. More here.
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Franke James takes a creative visual route to narrate a local accident.
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Looking back and forward on 9/11
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Comics from 1984, with Gavaskar battling Bandookstan & England cricketers and evil Himalayan magicians.
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Lookybook - Browse children’s picture books by flipping through every page. (- via.)
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Innovative architecture: The National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center for the Beijing Olympics.
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A new comic strip written by David Axe and drawn by Matt Bors, based on David’s experiences as a war correspondent. (- via.)
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The “A-Frame” over the years. (- via.)
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Sanjeev Naik in
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Just selling condoms—with a free demonstration!
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Two reasons why I am not a cat person! :)
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Sanjeev Naik in
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Interesting & Creative Art. C is for .. no, not Cow, C is for Cthulhu :)
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History of war, as told with food!
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An exploration of human desires, using words and pictures.
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An exploration of human emotion, in six movements.
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“This is the customer. He smells bad.” - from the Executive Coloring Book.
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What’s pink and blue and…. (Could use two of the same color too, if that’s your kinda thing.)
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...warna na ho. Previously. (Apologies to non-Hindi speakers.)
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..feature on the top 3 covers of ASME’s Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years.
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A creative ad.
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.. in maps re-drawn correlating country size to alcohol consumption. These maps of military spending, war & death, and HIV prevalence are sad.
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Some amazing (digital) pictures via Widelec.org, which has some great collections. (Title reference)
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Sanjeev Naik in
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And many more famous landmarks photoshopped into foreign settings.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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An interesting analysis - albeit a frivolous exercise of sorts.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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In Japanese style and to the extreme!
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An interesting analysis of color in some well known paintings. - via. Unrelated: Dali in a chocolate ad.
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The Devi & The Sadhu (first issue), courtesy Virgin Comics. - via Mefi.
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BBC’s The Planets and many other downloadable and streamable BBC Documentaries - via Mefi
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Ever wonder what pictures you’d get if you stuck a camera on a kite? XKCD tried it...
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I love this. XKCD rocks. (Via email from Gautam.)
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.. when it comes to advertizing for a porn website under the incoming flight path at Gatwick airport.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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...in so many yummy ways.
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Gautam in
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Amazing stop-motion photographs. However, the best ones are those that look dynamic yet are serene.
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Patrix in
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Portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job, posted in huge formats in unavoidable places on both sides. (- via.) Do varied cultures really read faces differently? (- via.)
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The 48 Hour Film Project invites filmmakers to complete a short movie in just two days.
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Ever wished advertising hoardings would disappear? São Paulo did just that and this is what it looks like.
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Children start to draw and artists continue. Super cool.
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Well, it does seem so. But they are just dancing. (Site‘s in French, via Photojojo)
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Ravages in
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August 4, 2004: 60 filmmakers in over 40 countries on 7 continents captured a single “moment” on earth.
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Sanjeev Naik in
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... using a refrigerator top and a gas burner (via Seth Godin).
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The finalists for the 4th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. Plenty of India-related pictures (See People and Travel.)
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Patrix in
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Arial, the font, and how it was developed. (Personally, I like the font, but use it in moderation.)
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Ravages in
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Sita Sings the Blues: The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told
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Dev.D doesn't flinch from depicting the individual’s downward spiral
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Sample clues
9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?