Month: March 2011

  • theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they’re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was “little more than…

  • huntedandgathered-blog: Jon-Kyle Mohr

  • DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro

    DC Women Kicking Ass: RIP Geraldine Ferraro dcwomenkickingass: Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, the first woman to run on a major party presidential ticket, died yesterday. She was 75. Women had run for president in the past (I have an aunt who has a button she saved from when Shirley Chisolm ran in 1972) but no woman…

  • iwdrm: “Monday, we burn Miller … Tuesday, Tolstoy … Wednesday, Walt Whitman … Friday, Faulkner … and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That’s our official motto.” Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

  • My parents were always worried when we innocently said we were playing doctor.

  • Even if the original lyrics are off-limits to old media, it’s clear to everyone that the profane versions of the songs are going to be heard. The enforced innocence of broadcasting is no longer a cultural firewall; it’s barely an inconvenience. “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,” the Internet-freedom activist John…

  • Tim Liddy’s photorealistic paintings of old board… Ekphrasis in action

  • On the wall are Penn’s ten game design rules, and it’s these that form the structure of the brainstorming process. There’s no sense that the team is just picking genres and trying to come up with new spins on old ideas. Instead, there’s a sort of organic, industrial design approach – they start by considering…

  • Forbes’ back-of-the-envelope accounting went like this. First, it tallied up revenue from all of those millions of YouTube views. YouTube, owned by Google, grants artists 68 percent of the proceeds earned from advertising on the site through its Partner Program. Forbes figured YouTube makes about $1 per 1,000 page views. Thus, “Friday’s” 30 million page…

  • Enter the Atomos Ninja and Samurai HD recorder / monitor / playback devices that take your 10-bit video and compress it in Apple’s 1080p ProRes QuickTime format to make your post-production life a little easier. The Ninja pulls video through HDMI and deposits it on your choice of 2.5-inch HDD or SDD storage, does playback…