Photography – Olivier Rebbot, gallery link after Peter Howe introduction
Photography – John Ficara’s Black Farmers in America
Photography Dispatch – Iraqi Special Police Commandos by Guy Calaf
Film Review – Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
Photography – Idols + Believiers by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Artist – Christian-themed artist Thomas Kinkade is accused of ruthless tactics and seamy personal conduct
Balkans – Milan Babic kills himself
Punk Rock – Riot at British Invasion concert
Photography – Chris Detrick named Student Photographer of the Year (my new co-worker)
Photography – Ho Chi Minh Highway, by James Nachtwey
Art – Russian/Soviet poster collection
NYT – They stole $92 million, but what can they do with it?
Photography – Pictures of the Year winners gallery
Artist – Jude Buffum, does hilarious art with classic 8-bit videogame imagery
Yahoo war reporter Kevin Sites is now in Chechnya
Q&A with Kevin Sites
WFMU – Compilation of the month: Shut up and Play (mp3’s of inane between-song banter). Featuring Slayer, Mercyful Fate, and the infamous Venom in Cleveland tracks
WFMU – And if you liked those, in this post are a few Paul Stanley from KISS clips
KSL – Family resolution causes concern in Kanab
Iraq – Toll in Iraq’s deadly surge: 1,300
CIA – Pillar to press: don’t get fooled again
NYT – More tin than gold for Olympic spots
NYT – poor and muslim? jewish? soup kitchen is not for you
Artist – Megan Whitmarsh (especially look at the embroidery)
Photography – Anti-racist demonstration in Paris, by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Wired – Scenes from the MySpace backlash
NYT – Another White House briefing, another day of mutual mistrust
NYT – Dungeon masters in cyberspace, D&D MMORPG
NYT – Army to pay Halliburton unit most costs disputed by audit
NYT – Chaos in Iraq sends shock waves across Middle East
NYT – Cyberthieves silently copy as you type
NYT – Presidential passage through India, quickly
Photography – Photo Mechanic 4.4.2 released
Art/Graffiti – Banksy rocks Melrose
NYT – David Lynch, still disturbing after 20 years
NYT – What civil war in Iraq would look like
NYT – Stephen Colbert
NYT – Dr. Gervais’s Frankenstein, Karl Pilkington
NYT – Book Review, Paul Bremer’s ‘My Year in Iraq’
NYT – Taliban spokesman goes to Yale
NYT – Growing Afghan prison rivals bleak Guantanamo
NYT – Bringing down Europe’s last ex-Soviet dictator
Art – Streetsy, daily street art photography
Art – Wooster Collective, street art, stencil, graffiti
ICC – In their own words, reading the Iraqi insurgency
For Ted & Alex & David – Captain Cosmic web page, with 2T2 NYT – US wants Germany to open up huge Holocaust archive
Photos – War photography shot within first-person-shooters
Photos – Matt Holloway, a photo each day of the year
Art/Video – The Twisted Films of the artist PES
Humor – Despair.Com Demotivating Posters 🙁
NYT – Carlotta Gall: Afghanistan producing bumper crop of heroin
NYT – Wal-Mart chief executive’s postings on internal management website
Artist – Alex Gross
Bruce Sterling on the Sony rootkit scandal
World’s smallest videogames (playable on web)
Pancake Mountain coming to DVD – children’s show featuring appearances by Henry Rollins, Anti-Flag, etc.
Anti-Authority Section:
Pillar’s critique is one of the most severe indictments of White House actions by a former Bush official
Vice President Cheney authorized Libby to leak classified information
NYT:
White House knew of Levee’s Failure on Night of Storm Ex-Cheney Aide testified leak was ordered
Drug runners gun down journalists in Mexico
Arrested Development, “should have been popular”
“Every best photographer will be there. Every best everybody.”
Artist- Marion Peck
Artist- Isabel Samaras’ Fester and Herman
More on Michael Yon, former Green Beret turned Iraq blogger
Guantanamo hunger strike vs. US Cartoon outrage crystallized in Mecca
Tom Roberts, guitarist for Poison Idea, dead
Studs and Spikes
Aerial photographs of Mexico City
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Hamas ready to talk to Israel, won’t renounce violence
Swindle Issue #5 out
day19.com – Jeremy and Claire Weiss Photography
Bush appointee out at NASA
Gizmondo is dead, long live Gizmondo Photos – Gotham Girls Roller Derby
Contest for Cartoons Mocking the Holocause Announced in Tehran
West sees Islamic Protests as sign of deep gulf
Startling Lesson in the Power of Imagery
Berlin’s Gestapo HQ – Topography of Terror
Republican who oversees NSA calls for wiretap inquiry
NYT sports magazine Play debuts Sunday
White House News Photographers contest results
Why US newspapers aren’t running offensive muslim cartoons
Lovecraft’s Cthulu done in Lego
Pac-Man tattoo
History of cookie-monster death metal vocals, from the Wall Street Journal?
Russia’s biggest film coming to US
Polygamous Temple appears to be completed
FBI Raids Polygamists
PhotoMechanic out, universal binary
Adobe PDF on pro-app support for intel macs Washington Post cartoon of armless, legless soldier
Reaction to above cartoon
French editor fired over Muhammed cartoon
“Shocking” Utah TV news report on the fleshpit MySpace
Not shocking report that the Serbian army helped hide Ratko
Jason from RKL dead
Artist- Andy Kehoe
Artist- Gus Finkelstein
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
MagnumPhotos- Niger Slave Trade by Stuart Franklin
MagnumPhotos- Paris Haute Couture by Christopher Anderson
MagnumPhotos- Niagra by Alec Soth
MagnumPhotos- Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion by Jonas Bendiksen
Evangelical film actor is actually gay
More European papers print Muhammed cartoon
Used videogames market
David Pogue on digital photography
Carlotta Gall on Pakistan’s quake victims in winter
Singles vs. Albums
Profile of writer from My Name is Earl
George Bush Lies About Wiretaps
Alternative Comedy
New Orleans fridge art
Saddam’s Trial
Climate Expert says NASA tried to silence him