- Touring the wake of destruction
- Real Snail Mail - no, really
- more beautiful transitoriness to consider
- advice poster series
- Adorable, fashion-forward and pious, too!
- I want a home like this...
- bird's eye view
- barred owl at the Davis Center
- activism at a rural high school
- "the joy of not being sold anything"
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July 6, 2008
July 2, 2008
Real Snail Mail - no, really
You can now send an email by an actual snail.
Cecil, Austin and Muriel are equipped with radio-frequency identification chips. As they creep across the tank at 0.03 miles per hour, they may accidentally pass an electronic reader which will then deliver the mail back into the Internet for the final leg of its journey. No telling how long the the snail's could have it, though.
February 21, 2008
more beautiful transitoriness to consider
January 26, 2008
advice poster series
Here's a fantastic ongoing project of posters designed by graduates of the University College of Falmouth in the UK to pass along advice to incoming students. See advice to sink in slowly or click the image to get to their Flickr set. 
January 25, 2008
Adorable, fashion-forward and pious, too!
You can now buy nauseating irony in fashionable pink camo!
A full text Bible ... in an adorable pink camo canvas cover and just the right size for young hands. Embroidered with a cross, flowers and a butterfly, this Bible is perfect for fashionable girls.
The cloth binding style offers kids a compact and cool look to carry their Bible to church, school, or on-the-go. It's durable, flexible, and incredibly cute for girls of all ages!
product actually sold here
December 11, 2007
I want a home like this...
A hobbit home in Wales.
November 13, 2007
bird's eye view
Tiny cameras mounted on an eagle give us a glimpse of her flight.
October 29, 2007
barred owl at the Davis Center
Photo by Katie Blis
September 24, 2007
activism at a rural high school
"Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt." Full article.
September 19, 2007
"the joy of not being sold anything"
August 27, 2007
Illuminations, calligraphy, illustration, weird and beautiful
July 24, 2007
Internet Crashed
May 4, 2007
Google Earth's goodness is good scary
There can be no worthier crisis to achieve such special status in Google Earth than the genocide in Sudan. The Darfur layers recently added to the application allow users to zoom in on the charred smudges of what used to be homes and villages. It's haunting and powerful. It might even mobilize a global action/reaction. All good.
Even President Bush was moved by the visuals (the facts having, unfortunately, been heretofore explained to him with language). So George Bush has commended Google Earth. That's right. He has seen the power of one of Google's most awesome applications to effect thought, impact opinion and possibly promote a desired action... just a little whiff of scary there.
January 13, 2007
more troops to Iraq
January 12, 2007
tree houses
Architect Mitchell Joachim has conceptualized dwellings made of growing trees, shaping the form by using an ancient tree farming method called pleaching.
January 10, 2007
dust of snow by robert frost
December 4, 2006
Studio Smack's Kapitaal
Stripped down and startling look at the inundation of commercial messages in 7 minutes of urban life. Studio Smack's Kapitaal
November 30, 2006
critical thinking, lest we forget what it is. . .
October 7, 2006
girl giant
Sent to me by Steve, this wonderful bit...
October 6, 2006
Bush senior's prescient words some four years before the invasion of Iraq
"Trying to eliminate Saddam... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq,.. There was no viable exit-strategy we could see, violating another of our principles. Furthermore, we had been consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unitlaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land"
—GHWB, A World Transformed, 1998
September 28, 2006
September 7, 2006
infinite images
August 30, 2006
2D loved ones....
Flat Daddies and Mommies.
One of the more bizarro things I've seen lately. These pancake versions of family members serving in the guard in Iraq are making children feel SO much better, as you can see in the pic of these flat-looking boys.
"If there's something we can do to make it a little easier on the families, then that's our job and our responsibility. It brings them a little bit closer and might help them somewhere down the line."
--Sergeant First Class Barbara Claudel
Boston Globe article Guard families cope in two dimensions. (They even take them to confession??)
August 24, 2006
graphic says it all
August 22, 2006
snap judgement
"We imagine trust to be a rather sophisticated response, but our observations indicate that trust might be a case of a high-level judgment being made by a low-level brain structure. Perhaps the signal bypasses the cortex altogether."
— Princeton University psychologist Alex Todorov&mdashfull article
July 14, 2006
protesting designers
A number of graphic designers refused an invitation from Laura Bush to attend a breakfast ceremony at The White House in honor of their work. Their protest letter spurred a lot of response on the Design Observer ranging from thoughtful to reactionary and simplistic.