Laurenn McCubbin’s new web comic, Harvest Gypsy, is now available on Artbomb.net. [I can’t link directly to the comic, so go to Artbomb and look for the link on the far left side of the page.) Go look. Also, if you’ve never seen her print comic, XXX Live Nude Girls (co-created with Nikki Coffman), you […]
California Senator Barbara Boxer introduced the following bill to the U.S. Senate on May 23:
S.1158: A bill to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of tangible things for foreign intelligence investigations, and to exempt libraries from counterintelligence access to certain records, ensuring that libraries and bookstores are subjected to the regular system […]
The things I miss when I go about my day job. This shootout happened nearly two weeks ago, and this is the first I’ve heard of it. (Note to self: Read Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s weblog more often.)
lascivious.
We tried last night to get to the Burlesque Festival shindig at Knitting Factory, but by the time we arrived, tickets had already sold out. The burlesque revival seems to me to be one of the most interesting cultural things happening in this city, and this festival is just one facet of that. Today’s burlesque […]
Judge Richard Posner wrote, earlier this week, a concise and short essay for Newsday about plagiarism:
…Plagiarism can be a form of fraud, but it is no accident that, unlike real theft, it is not a crime. If a thief steals your car, you are out the market value of the car; but if a writer […]
Last night, I was on the F train to West 4th Street. Somewhere around East Broadway, a young woman boarded the train and sat across from me. I noticed she was reading something, but I didn’t pay much attention to her as I read my book. Shortly, I heard her start to sing–”Ooooooooooooklahoma, where the […]
From the music sheet to the MP3. From Sheet Music to MP3: Music through the 20th Century Among the current notices of legal online music stores finally coming of age across the ‘Net, this is a lengthy but quite deep and interesting analysis (deepest I’ve seen so far) on how the music industry ended up […]
A Garden for All as Private Eden. Central Park, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, is our great urban oasis. By Herbert Muschamp. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
There’s a couple of lovely pictures in this article; I’ll have to wander up that way this weekend.
Via the newthings blog:
One hundred mini-pictures of the Soldiers and Sailors arch in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza.
More from the Moonmilk site.
Slower.net
New York photoblogs, courtesy the links sidebar on Gothamist:
lightningfield
rion.nu
quarlo
I want a digital camera so much my teeth hurt.
