The new, all-in-one iMac G5 is one of the sharpest bits of product design I’ve seen. I love the look of the display, the angled aluminum stand, the port array on the back, and even the way the power supply connects to the machine.
Get the wireless keyboard and mouse options and set it up […]
No to same-sex marriage; yes to two girls at once.
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, at Forgotten New York.
Multimedia site showing what happens during decomposition. Just incinerate me, please.
I don’t know what’s a worse idea: This one, or this one.
Laurenn McCubbin has illustrated a new book: Rent Girl, a collection of autobiographical essays written by Michelle Tea.
Laurenn talked to Reyhan Harmanci of the San Francisco Chronicle about the new book. Harmanci says of Rent Girl:
In tracing Michelle’s journey from Boston to San Francisco, with a stop in Arizona, “Rent Girl” doesn’t flinch from […]
A study conducted by researchers at University College London has found that moderate alcohol consumption increases cognitive function. From the abstract:
Of people who reported drinking alcohol in the past year, those who consumed at least one drink in the past week, compared with those who did not, were significantly less likely to have poor cognitive […]
January 28, 1986 — The space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after takeoff.
1986 — The year of birth for most of the 18-year-olds among this year’s batch of college freshmen.
Here’s something cool from a while back: Adam Kempa blogs about Nicholson Baker’s connection to the recent Fantagraphics reprints of the Peanuts comic strip. Baker made recent headlines with his new novel Checkpoint, in which two men discuss an assassination attempt against presidential fuckchimp George W. Bush.
But in 2001, Baker released Double Fold: Libraries and […]
