DIRELAND: “All this godbothering is, of course, designed to cover up Tyson’s dirty record as a rapacious, union-busting, exploitative corporation that endangers the lives of its workers, exploits immigrant labor, and doesn’t stop at utilizing violence and fraud to achieve its reactionary goals.”
Monthly Archives: December 2005
A quarter-century of U.S. support for occupation in East Timor
National Security Archive: “The Archive has worked for many years to open U.S. government files on Indonesia and East Timor. In December 2001, the Archive posted newly declassified documents showing that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Gerald Ford gave the green light to Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, the beginning of a 24-year occupation in which more than 100,000 Timorese died.”
Beginner’s guide to search engine optimization
SEOmoz: This guide provides a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.
1949 candy retailer book
The Imaginary World: “1949 NWCA CANDY SALESMAN BOOK. These pages all came form a 1949 candy salesman book – this is a good cross section of the candy that was available to the national market at that time.
The Red and the Mondegreen
Urban Legends Reference Pages:
Good King Wences’ car backed out
On the feet of heathens
Vintage octopus pulp covers
Francesca Myman: Beware the tentacles of these maurading cephalopods (including nautilus, squid, cuttlefish, and octopus).
Animated engines
Matt Keveney: Animated GIFs of internal combustion, steam, and Stirling engines.
Atlas of cyberspace
Cyber-Geography: Various representations of cyberspace; last updated in early 2004.
Insultingly stupid movie physics
Intuitor: “In the name of physics decency, to protect the minds of children everywhere, so that they may grow up in a world where they know the difference between speed and velocity, we have taken the responsibility to rate movies for their portrayal of excessively bad physics.” Worst move ever: The Core.
Amazing optical illusions
eyetricks: Source for optical illusions, brain teasers, games, 3D images and other mind teasing oddities.
Medicine and Madison Avenue
Duke University: This website explores the complex relationships between modern medicine and modern advertising, or “Madison Avenue.” The Medicine and Madison Avenue Project presents images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines.
Gene(sis): contemporary art explores human genomics
Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics: Presents some of today’s most powerful new artwork reflecting recent developments in genomics. This exhibition also demonstrates the impact of genetics on artistic practice and on notions of the artist-subject. (Flash intro might not work in Safari, try going straight to an artist.)