DIY Wrapping Paper Saves Money and Personalizes Your Gifts [DIY] (2)
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Unless you had the foresight to stockpile wrapping paper after Christmas last year, you're looking at buying a lot of over priced paper this holiday season. At the business blog Strategize they came up with a cheap solution for wrapping tons of gifts without breaking the bank. [We used the] basic brown shipping paper that you can purchase in any office supply or paper store. We wound up buying a pretty large roll of it ...
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Josh said:
Brown Kraft paper + homemade rubber stamps = cheap & cool
Immersion (3)
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NYT magazine has a video (above) on photographer Robbie Cooper's new project Immersion. From the write up of the slideshow:These images of kids playing video games were created by Robbie Cooper, a British photographer who employed a Red camera — a very-high-resolution video camera — and then took stills from the footage. Cooper, who says he was inspired by the camera technique that Errol Morris used to interview people in his documentaries, arranged his equipment ...
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Josh said:
And this is why hardcore gamers/games scare me.
The Intimacy Of The Urban (1)
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New research challenges the notion that city-dwellers are lonelier:“Every 20 or 30 years, we have a lament about the decline of community, and it’s usually due to cities and urbanization,” says Robert Sampson, the criminologist who chairs Harvard’s sociology department, when I visit him one sunny morning this fall. He mentions one of the classics of the genre, Louis Wirth’s Urbanism As a Way of Life. “It’s all about the impersonal way of life in ...
Video: Adobe dabbles in video-object manipulation (28)
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Hey you, hot-shot movie cutter! Now that we've got your attention, have a look at this. Adobe's research laboratory has been toiling away with a sophisticated interactive video-object manipulation system, which gives video editors all sorts of creative windows with next to no rendering lag. An After Effects demonstration shows an editor selecting the outside of a cab and typing "taxi" -- once the text is imprinted on the vehicle, it stays on the car ...
Buyer's Market For America (2)
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Kaplan:...the real reason that Obama and Clinton might enjoy success is something that goes barely mentioned in the media. Obama and Clinton are buying into a bottomed-out market vis-à-vis America’s position in the world. It is as if they will be buying stock after the market has crashed, and just at the point when a number of factors are already set in motion for a recovery. For President George W. Bush did not just damage ...
9 Beet Stretch by Leif Ing is a recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth symphony stretched to 24 hours (1)
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I like this drone. A lot. Thanks for the link Tom! (hit the "click and go" link to open a stream of the music) ***** Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by glass to music stream fivestarstwothumbsup beethoven - More about this bookmark
Connections (1)
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Funny how coincidences arise. I found both Mario Feese’s Air Lines and Chris Harrison’s Internet Maps at about the same time and was struck by how recognisable the continents are, and, as I’m fond of maps I thought I’d compare the two images. On the Air Lines map, most of the continents are rendered as a ghostly but fairly accurate outlines, with South America rendered as a beautiful abstraction, right to its tip. The Internet ...
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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled To Death As Mob Tears Doors Off Hinges (15)
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The New York Times is reporting that a temporary employee of a suburban New York Walmart was trampled to death when a throng of shoppers tore down the front doors of the store and surged inside. At 4:55 this morning, a group of 2,000 shoppers began pushing at the doors of the Walmart in Valley Stream, NY. The mob broke the doors off of their hinges and pushed inside the store, knocking down Jdimypai Damour, ...
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Josh said:
It's this (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072848/) all over again.
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Ben Latterell said:
this. is. absolutely. disgusting. fucking god damned fucking consumer-crazed stone-dumb imbeciles.
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Michael Hyland said:
WTF is wrong with people?
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Coop said:
Disgusting. Makes me sick.
Black Friday (1)
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Indeed: A shooting inside a Toys "R" Us on the busiest shopping day of the year killed two people, authorities said. The violence erupted on Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving start of the holiday shopping surge.... "Some people got into a fight," said Splain, who spoke with some of the customers. "One of the guys here thought it was over a toy, but it got louder and louder and then there were gunshots." Sarah Pacia ...
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Josh said:
Capitalism has reduced us to our primal state/nature.
India's Internal Reckoning (2)
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Bob Kaplan explains the Hindu-Muslim divide that helps frame the Mumbai terror attacks:The immediate result of the Mumbai terror attacks will be a further hardening of inter-communal relations within India. The latest attacks will also increase the likelihood that in national elections slated for early 2009, the result will be a BJP-led government, as Hindus, who comprise the overwhelming majority of Indian voters, take on another layer of insecurity. Internationally, this event will further aggravate ...
How Will A Truth Commission Work? (1)
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Dahlia states the obvious:It's sweet and fanciful to think that with a grant of immunity and a hot cup of chai, Bush-administration officials who have scoffed at congressional subpoenas and court dates will sit down and unburden themselves to a truth commission about their role in the U.S. attorney firings.I do think that a Truth Commission remains our best bet. But it cannot be set up as a way to give Bush officials legal immunity ...
Movies As Color Pies (9)
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The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation & Marie Antoinette reduced to their respective color schemes: A description of the project: Curious to see if there were any stark similarities or contrasts within particular films, Pie aims to create an incredibly simple and concise baseline of comparison of films trough one particular trait: colour. This project was also the result of my first explorations into processing. The outcome is a number of triptychs comparing various films ...
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Josh said:
The John Holmes triptych is unsurprising, yet still amusing.
Gay Tripper (1)
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Rosie couldn't revive the variety show—but that doesn't mean the genre is without merit. Ladies and gentleman: Cher, Tina Turner, and Kate Smith—Kate Smith!—singing a Beatles medley. God bless Kate Smith—she looks like she'd rather be almost anywhere else. But she's game. And love the very special comedy stylings of the inimitable Tim Conway. Video courtesy of Balt-O-Matt, Slog's official curator of gaytastic YouTube videos, who's so gay he doubtless stumbled over this video while ...
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After Thanksgiving:Annie's aunt felt like she was swimming the English Channel with Kate Smith on her back.I felt like I was giving her a piggyback ride.
The Population and the Popular Vote (20)
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In response to our post from earlier this week on the size and scale of Barack Obama's popular vote victory, several readers wrote in to ask how Barack Obama's popular vote total ranks as a share of the United States population at the time of his election.Obama has received at least 68,724,397 popular votes for the Presidency. I say "at least" because they're still counting in California and several other states, and so Obama's total ...
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Soren said:
of course, Bush could too..
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Rick Klau said:
Wow. This seems like kind of a big deal.
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vanlandw said:
Interesting look at the popular vote count for Obamaboy. It felt like a closer race but this make it seem the opposite.
Obama girls will do chores in White House - Yahoo! News (1)
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CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, said their young daughters will still have to do chores in the White House, including picking up after their new puppy. Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, will have to "scoop the poop," the president-elect said in an interview with Barbara Walters broadcast Wednesday. "We've been talking to them about that. We don't want litter on the White House lawns. They're going to have to do their ...
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