Pippin Barr is at it again. Fresh off praise from Artinfo and Washington Post for satire-cum-commentary on Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, Barr now takes a stab at Greek tragedies. Finally, the frustrations of Sisyphus, Tantalus, and others can be yours to enjoy and scream at. Pippin is tr
One of the concerns people always have when getting a new tattoo is with their longevity. Is that quote from Dante’s Inferno that you now have plastered across your chest, I resisted asking a friend in college, really going to have the same impact in twenty years? Well, one man found a way to circum
Folk singer, beloved American hero and all around wise guy Woody Guthrie once made a list of precepts for the new year. Lists of Note transcribed the thing because it was kind of hard to read, but the rulin’s are: NEW YEAR’S RULIN’S 1. WORK MORE AND BETTER 2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE 3. WASH TEETH IF ANY
It’s pretty amazing what Steven Briand managed to do with just a camera and some paper. Makes me wish more developers would use stop motion (aside from thecatamites, that is.) – Filipe Salgado [source]
That’s what Steve Gillmor at TechCrunch is hypothesizing, at least: Today email serves as a notification service for social. I get social notifications both via push on mobile and email as an archive. The more efficient push gets, the more email becomes a redundant service. On iOS devices, I am now
Turns out, shame-based models for exercise might not be the best way to motivate people to get off the couch. And even if someone really likes data, monitoring their own vital statistics might not be entirely appealing either. But after leading an ultimately unsuccessful project at Google that promi
Vaclav Havel, the Czechoslovakian politician who presided over the country during its breakup, died on Sunday, but left behind his sharp critiques of Western society. Politicians seem to have turned into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to have