Banksy Beats Down the Simpsons
We love Banksy. He’s an Enigma Artist. This week, he took on — The Simpsons — to make a political point that the television cartoon is a profiteering entity made rich on the backs of foreign, slave, labor.
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The Curious Art of Caleb Larsen
I cannot figure out what to do with the artwork of Caleb Larsen. We have seen the mutilating world of scarification. We have swallowed hard the brutal images brought to us through the Event Horizon art display. But what to do with this — the kind of art work which doesn’t so much challenge your ideas or push your imagination so much as make you wonder why it is in a museum in the first place. Let us first look at the work titled “The Day The Internet Told Us We Would Die.” The entire work consists of printouts of two dates — the date that a web site calculated that the artist would die, and the date that the site calculated that his wife would die. Two pieces of paper with printed death dates from a death date web site.
Windows Live WordPress Spaces: Is Microsoft Buying Automattic?
Yesterday, it was announced that 30 million Windows Live Spaces blogs were being moved over to WordPress.com as Microsoft gives up the ghost of their free blogging space to Automattic.
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Bristol Palin's Baby Wave and Why Real Men Nod
Boys cry — but they don’t wave — and we never Baby Wave like Bristol Palin did last night on Dancing with the Stars.
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Robert Louis Stevenson on the Moral Bargain
In my recent article on William James, he taught us How to Know a Good Man, and part of his argument referenced a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson:
Stevenson says somewhere to his reader: “You think you are just making this bargain, but you are really laying down a link in the policy of mankind.”
I was intrigued by that quotation, and I decided to return to the source material to read the entire quotation in context. Here’s what I found on page 20 of Stevenson’s fine book, Lay Morals:
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New Era Cap Stickers and Price Tags Left on Clothing
I first noticed the phenomenon of the sticker left intentionally on the baseball cap a few years ago when I was living in Seattle and visiting New York. It may have been going on longer than that but like many things, I could not unsee that which I had seen and I noticed it with increasing frequency once i had actually moved back to New York.
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Some Fan Mail For You
Yesterday I was sent the following piece of fan mail — for you, really, not for me — and I share it with you now:
I didn’t realize intelligent conversation (sans political banter) existed on the internet. How refreshing.
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