Moneydick: archive

via Wired’s Square Photo Contest. (click on the bushy)

Soundtrack (Menomena - Posh Isolation) <– came on while I was down here.

Last week I had the opportunity to explore the massive network of inaccessible basement passageways of the California institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California. I love exploring caves and dark places–but this location contains a long ethnographic record of a most fascinating [...]

i’m on the jury.
the odds of this happening were about 1 in 85, but I’m somewhat pleased. Sadly, we’re into the ‘time to listen’ part of the case. That’s about all I can say about that. But believe me, I’m taking mental notes and I’ll be posting a massive update about my experience soon.
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I really like the human-mechanistic thinking behind this ‘kindle killer’
Researchers at the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of California at Berkeley have recently unveiled a prototype (pdf) of a dual-display e-book reader. The reader features two detachable screens that can be viewed side by side like an open book, or with [...]

Check out Simon Lund’s photoset ‘True Love‘ (not on flickr). This is the real stuff, guyzzzz
Not taken by him, but ‘curated’ in the awesome sense of the word:
The photographs here where scanned from 120 negatives found in New York City’s Chinatown by Jana Leo. These are a sample I picked out of around 5,000 negatives.

17June2008_TaylorMI2, originally uploaded by Barack Obama.

wtf obama why you make her cry

In an article at the Nation, John Nichols quotes George Carlin on politics:
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians…Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from [...]