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little red riding hood

The story animated and reimagined with infographics. It’s a design blog hit that I’m just getting around to posting.


Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.

emily haines on writing in buenos aires

Emily Haines, talking about writing Metric’s new album Fantasies, and how Argentina helped her get out of the “Um. . . what do I do now?” funk:

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  • 21 Apr 2009
  • 12:19pm EST
  • Politics, Science!
  • This post contains political opinions. Reader discretion is advised.

the dangers of burying facts

Readers of the New York Times may have noticed an article about the alarming resurgence of polio in several areas of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; several immediately took to Facebook to complain that the US hasn’t been doing enough in the area of medical aid to less-developed nations. As ever, facts are rarely important when a good opportunity to flog ourselves comes up:

Despite more than 20 years of eradication efforts, two strains of polio have spread out from northern Nigeria and northern India — both places where many Muslims have resisted vaccines because of rumors that vaccine efforts are a Western plot to sterilize them.

Pretty sure that’s not the case, but the religious leaders in question make a very good case for selected sterilization.

the raptor dance

From the 2003 movie Koi. . . Mil Gaya:


koi mil gaya – it’s magic
by snehas

Fast forward to :50. That is all.

addendum: I’ve been reminded that tomorrow is Raptor Awareness Day [Facebook link]. Consider this my part to make you more aware of the threat of velociraptor attacks.

  • 17 Apr 2009
  • 4:23pm EST
  • Politics, Technology
  • This post contains political opinions. Reader discretion is advised.

mmm. . . irony

Do you like irony? Think the AP are being douche-barrels deserving to fall into oblivion with the rest of the modern newspaper industry? Then you’ll love the Obama poster kerfuffle!

The Associated Press are trying to sue LA artist Shepard Fairey for his use of an AP photo to create his vaguely cultish (and socialist realist) poster of President Obama. Farley and his lawyer, with all the facetiousness they could muster, countersued:

Fairey’s lawyers said in papers filed at a New York court Wednesday that the artist’s use of the photograph is protected by the First Amendment as well as by fair-use laws.

But the real attention-grabber was Fairey’s assertion that the AP itself violated copyright laws when it used a photo of the artist’s “Hope” poster without getting permission. In other words, he’s arguing that the AP can’t reproduce an image by Fairey that the artist himself appropriated from the AP.

The AP’s case probably has merit (Fairey certainly pushes the bounds of fair use), and Fairey’s case is clearly a sarcastic stretch being used to make a point, but I can’t help but laugh at a wire service that clearly does not get it.

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  • 8 Apr 2009
  • 12:39pm EST
  • Politics
  • This post contains political opinions. Reader discretion is advised.

thomas frank and selective naivete

Thomas Frank writes another treatise from the the “if you don’t agree with me, you’re mentally unstable” school of thought that’s so popular on the left in today’s Wall Street Journal, about the sins of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R):
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