Archive for September, 2004
Collections and Exhibits
MoCA: Museum of Chinese in the Americas. Bad Beijing architecture. Drawings by second graders of the human body. A huge collection of Photoshop tutorials. The British Library’s Database of Bookbindings. Stephen Downes’s Index of Logical Fallacies. Kevin Sherry’s Sweater Project. Jason Patient’s cycling images. Edward Tufte’s argument against PowerPoint presented as a PowerPoint presentation.
The Ownership Society
"A Guided Tour of the 'Ownership Society'" -- Michael Kinsley in The Los Angeles Times, 9/5/04:
At the moment, we are a Debtorship Society. The government is spending far more than it is bringing in. And even so, our commitments, primarily to supply pensions and healthcare to the elderly, exceed the amounts we are putting aside [...]
Bush Guard Service: Summary of Disappeared Records
"Bush's National Guard File Missing Records" -- Matt Kelley (AP) at news.yahoo.com, 9/5/04:
Records of Bush's service have significant gaps, starting in 1972. Bush has said he left Texas that year to work on the unsuccessful Senate campaign in Alabama of family friend Winton Blount.
The five kinds of missing files are:
-- A report from the [...]
Images
A catalog of old postcards that you can buy. Jason Salavon’s 100 Special Moments. Paul Smith’s typewriter art. Goodbye, Romania: “Due to server problems when reaching 9% of pixel loss we have to pause this project for a short while.” Mayumi Lake photos. Eye of Science.