We Make Money Not Art revealed to me today the art of Kati Heck, which I am loving. It's like a Northern European spin on Kahlo and Dali or something, but that doesn't do her work justice. Go look.

Sometimes you see a news story or a link or whatever and think "Hey, this friend of mine would be interested. Other times you might see one and say "Wow, this is tailor made for this one friend of mine!" And then there's the time you see a web page and say "Holy crap! brianenigma is controlling the universe somehowCombining Bettie Page and an inflatable ( Read more... )

Maciej Ceglowski's blog popped up new stuff in my rss reader today. Of particular interest are:

• One hell of a bank robbery in Argentina
  
  
• Serious penguin action

Good stuff, good stuff.

Someone mentioned "voip blog" on irc and we were joking about what that meant, like maybe cold calling people to blog at them. I made some crack about getting all sorts of stereotypical blogger types (geeks, subculture victims, etc.) and telling them they're doing VOIP blogging but actually having them do coldcall telemarketing. What to sell? Well ( Read more... )

Faux folksy fuck flails at flip, frivolous fun.

via waxy.org links

Now that Flickr is getting very popular, it's almost useless for getting photos from world events. Just a few months ago, getting a tag feed for some newsworthy current event returned pictures from people at the scene. The immediacy and the alternative to the wire services made it interesting ( Read more... )

My friend Laura Kramarsky, whose social and political blog is syndicated here as kramarsky, also sells jewelry at http://www.thebeadedneedle.com/ . And now she has launched a jewelry and beading community blog at http://thebeadedneedle ( Read more... )