Archive for January, 2010
Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts from LIFE
LIFE put together a collection of photographs featuring several literary giants with known substance abuse issues. Here’s an interesting image of William Faulkner, hard at work:
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LIFE
Graffiti Grammar
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Imgur
EyeWriter Project
From the website:
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.
It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.
The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.
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EyeWriter
Vimeo
Instructables
Not Impossible Foundation
Tony Quan (“Tempt One”)
Evan Roth
Graffiti Research Lab
ARTICLE: Kidnapping in China
FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS:
HONG KONG, China — In November, kidnappers seized 11-year-old Chen Hao in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The captors demanded 1 million yuan, or $146,000, for the boy’s return. His distraught parents agreed to pay part of the ransom up front. But their actions were not enough and the next day Hao’s dismembered body was discovered.
A month earlier, 11-year-old Yi Yichen was kidnapped and murdered, his body dumped in the sea.
Such grisly crimes have anxious residents of Shenzhen pressuring police to crack down. The Chinese boom town, just north of Hong Kong, has seen child kidnapping cases surge in recent months.
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Global Post: Colum Murphy
Evolution by Country
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kontraband
Work Around the Globe
Health Care Costs Around the World
Here’s another way to plot the data, from Jon Peltier:
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Boing Boing
National Geographic
PTS Blog
Andrew Gelman
Evan Falchuk
OECD Library
Devdutt Pattanaik @ TED: East vs. West
Some of this could be extended to include the Confucian-heritage cultures in the far East, I would think, including China. However, I would argue that there’s much more emphasis in those cultures on the collective understanding of Mr. Pattanaik’s “mythology of the infinite.” It’s not so much “the world” and/or “my world” (object meets subjective, the West meets India), but “the wolrd” and/or “OUR world.”
In any case, a thought-provoking TED video:
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TED
Devdutt Pattanaik
