February 29, 2008 – 12:16 am
Posters from the 1972 blaxploitation classic. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to.
RIP Curtis.
February 13, 2008 – 12:17 am
Peter Kareiva, chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, has an article in Science that builds on an idea which biologist Dan Janzen outlined several years ago in a Long Now talk entitled “It’s All Gardening.” Janzen’s talk centered on the unusefulness of the concept of wilderness as geography free of human influence and argued for [...]
February 2, 2008 – 12:25 am
Post-rock reviews are usually my brother’s territory, but I thought I would get into the act. I decided to check out This Will Destroy You because I thought their new album cover was hilarious, and I saw they were making t-shirts of it for people who pre-ordered the album. But then I started listening and [...]
February 2, 2008 – 12:09 am
Am I the only one who didn’t know that Alex Chilton of Big Star — of the excellent “The Ballad of El Goodo” and “Thirteen” — came to fame as the 16-year-old singer of this AM Gold classic?
Seriously? “The Letter,” by The Box Tops?
I had no idea. That 60s song and Big Star’s stuff occupy [...]
February 1, 2008 – 10:28 pm
This is so soothing, I love it:
For diehards, the original.
via copy,right?
February 1, 2008 – 10:16 am
Nice map from Dopplr showing all the cities their users visited over the last year, plus some stats on most popular flights, etc.
I’m just waiting for my Dopplr profile to be subpoenaed when the world passes global per capita carbon emissions cap legislation. All my airplane flights over the years, meticulously detailed with dates, [...]
