Broken Bells “The Ghost Inside”
An excellent video for an excellent song. Starring Mad Men‘s Christina Hendricks. Available on iTunes.
Archive for the “Pop Culture” category — Page 2
Smile or Die
An animated lecture by Barbara Ehrenreich:
Parsing Flickr can separate locals from tourists
Eric Fischer, a 37-year-old computer programmer from Oakland, Calif., created a map using geotagging data on the photo-sharing websites Flickr and Picasa to More »
The Life You Can Save
A new project from Peter Singer.
“You Maniacs!”
Just about sums up the gulf spill situation and our continued denial. HT: Southern Beale
Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
From the 2010 New Orlean’s Jazz Festival:
A Ph.D. on the wall
This is a bit meta, but The Chronicle has a discussion on a recent New Yorker cover. While I strongly disagree with the More »
The Skinny Jeans rape defense
The story goes that Gonzales, 23, invited said acquaintance, 24, up to his room to listen to some music, at which time he More »
An old letter from a Vermont mother
He never professed to be gay or had any association with anything gay, but he had the misfortune not to walk or have More »
Deep Fried Orange County
Cowabunga Corn Dog, OC Fair (Rob Takata / For The Times) Behold the Cowabunga Corn Dog, 12 inches and 2 pounds of breaded, More »
Adobe throws down the gauntlet. Apple, your move.
Straight from Adobe’s site, a letter from their executives: If the web fragments into closed systems, if companies put content and applications behind More »
The Daily Show: Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s
Fucking dead-on brilliant. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Back in Black – Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s More »
American Able
‘American Able’ intends to, through spoof, reveal the ways in which women with disabilities are invisibilized in advertising and mass media.
Dawkins on Absolute Morality
A-fucking-men.
“Born Free” by M.I.A.
Directed by Romain Gavras, the second of which I’ve stumbled upon in as many weeks. It’s a great, visceral allegory for all kinds More »
