Photographer Filip Dujardin challenges the viewer with some bizarre buildings, "combin[ing] photographs of parts of buildings into new, fictional, architectonic structures." [Via] Photojojo offers up the very cool bottle cap tripod for $10. (On a somewhat related note, David Pogue points out "It tur...

President-elect Barack Obama told the Chicago Tribune, "I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular." He pledged an "unrelenting" wish to "create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with pe...

"And be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them." Al Quaeda to Obama. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality." Unidentified Bush advisor, 2002. I can't help but think that until the...

A bi-weekly collection of linky goodness. Apple - Movie Trailers - Up Looks to be a pretty colorful Pixar movie! Tags: movie, pixar, up, via:mento.info Help, We’re Being Digitally Bombarded | Mark Evans This is a good encapsulation/description of the “information abundance” problem/opp...

Hi everyone, I’m posting here as a guest on the invitation of Professor Nussbaum. I am sympathetic towards her work, but have also been a persistent –and I hope constructive- critic of it. I teach at a Jesuit liberal arts college, and have just returned from teaching four years in the United Ara...

The Rifftides staff is attempting to keep ahead of the CD tsunami described in this recent post. It's an impossible assignment, but they're a game bunch. Herewith, brief reviews of approximately 0.06% of the accumulated mass of discs. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 1  (Doxy/Emarcy). ...

Today's filter pass on the blogosphere, again from Rio, and still without enough sleep... Dave Winer wonders Is Obama truly world-wide?  As someone presently in Brazil, the fifth largest country, I can unequivocally answer Yes.  It is amazing to see how many Brazilians followed the U.S. el...

James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (1625-1656),principal author of The Irish Articles (1615) In the bumper issue of The Banner of Truth magazine for August-September 2008, Michael Haykin devoted an article to "Regeneration and Faith, according to Two British Confessions". The first was The Scottish ...

With Words                                               For Enrique Lihn, on his wedding A complete knowledge of the world of words is impossible, at least for the human species and despite what cybe...

ABOVE: kode9. Photo by Georgie Cook . Last Wednesday DJ Rupture hosted DJ and dubstep producer kode9 (Steve Goodman) on WFMU 91.1 fm 90.1 fm; you can listen to the show here. Goodman played a live set of typically tasteful and deliriously immersive beats, of which I am reluctant to assign any genre ...