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 The Wider Angle Tumblog is really what I always wanted Wider Angle to be, a place where you can come to jump to other interesting stuff, but continuously updated as I find things. Almost everything I link to really needs little or no comment; it stands on its own and explains itself, and in the context of the blog time continuum, it seems to all make sense somehow. Thusly and therefore inherently subsequently, semi-officially, all the awesome links and photos and videos will be on the Tumblog with very limited reposts to Wider Angle. I'll also try to make more frequent, longer, better posts about interesting and/or relevant topics here on WA. However, there is an unresolved bit of this plan. What do I write about? I could do design critiques or music reviews, but do we really need more of that on the internets? I thought of answering questions about random topics, but I'm fairly sure the average WA reader is smarter and more resourceful than I am, or at least knows about Ask MeFi. The most recent Tumblog links and my Twitter posts are over on the side thing there. So I ask you, the smart, witty, and quite attractive WA reader, what would you like to see here? Please email me at benmautner@gmail.com or leave a comment, I would most appreciate the input. Labels: Tumblog
 Check out the new Wider Angle Tumblog RSS feed powered by Feedburner. Full content posts plus email-to-friend and bookmarking buttons. Labels: Tumblog
Some of the best links from the Wider Angle Tumblog over the past week or so, beginning with my new desktop. It comes from Microsoft's New Zealand site...
 Underworld has a new album coming out in October. Can't wait to see them in Central Park. Sao Paulo has taken down all their outdoor ads. A Flickr set documenting some of the results. Winterbells is a Flash game I found again recently where a cute bunny has to hop up bells to score points, or risk floating down with ears flapping. The majority of White House aides use RNC email addresses, and more than half of those accounts have not been archived. Every part of that is illegal. Creature Comforts is my new favorite show on network tv.  Judge Jules's son is rather old now. I remember when he was born. Why has Gary, Indiana been completely abandoned? " I don't really have too much faith in the Constitution because you gotta remember when they signed the Constitution, you got all these geniuses in the room, and they're like, 'OK, we got the right to bear arms, got free speech, you can own niggers. Looks good to me, let's sign!' So obviously all those people were insane." Ice-T in Fuck Tim Noble and Sue Webster make extraordinary shadow art. Several hugely popular clubs in Ibiza have been suspended for drug violations. The authorities there just don't get it. "Minimal is like great design. When it's good, it's lovely to behold. When it's bad, it's just wallpaper or linoleum. Sometimes it evelates to art... but frankly not often." Auntie Agony in DJ Magazine Discovered Mozy. Unlimited online backup for $5/month.  My beautiful friend Kaci gets ready for her beautiful wedding. "The ukulele is the pda version of the guitar." Mark Frauenfelder on Net@Nite Custom wallpaper made so the pattern wraps around your stuff. I am still so happy that Bush got his watch stolen. Italy's emissions continue to increase while other major polluters in Europe have managed to lessen theirs. It's all moot, but still, for shame.  I still can't fathom this bouncey horse. WTF? The USDA has decided that some non-organic things can actually be called organic. Google Reader finally, FINALLY, gets an unofficial search engine. Frank Zappa on Crossfire in 1986 defending free speech.  Our 2nd compilation of highlights from the Wider Angle Tumblog begins with our progress in Iraq, from the view of Misha Niskin. [TL] "73 percent of Americans said the country is pretty seriously on the wrong track, while 25 percent said things are going in the right direction." [TL] "Time Warner has announced the introduction of packet shaping technology to its network." [TL] Stefan Sagmeister on how design can make you happy, speaking at TED in 2004. [TL]  Stefan Sagmeister's desktop. [TL] "Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer." [TL] "It was a short-lived but spectacular breach of security at the new US embassy in Baghdad." Web leak puts US embassy at risk [in reference to this] [TL] "An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been consumed by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration..." [TL]  Bush and his beer. A new iconic photograph. [TL] Oceana has produced a printable mini-guide of what kinds of fish are safe to eat, for you and the ocean. [TL] Interactive Periodic Table [TL] "Yes. I am the founder of this movement." - Paul Oakenfold takes credit for creating the acid house generation. [via Jonty Skrufff] [TL] "What is Glyphs? Well it’s Adobe’s poorly-named character palette, while Glyphs is a nice 5-dollar word and fits within in the width of the menu, Fucked Up Characters Palette is far more descriptive and serves the user better." - STET [TL]  Three beautiful dolphins from Global Wanderer. [TL] The benefits of being home schooled: the completely awkward and inappropriate spelling bee winner. [TL] Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79 at ICP in NYC May 11–September 9, 2007 [TL] "Blitzer tonight asked [Conservative candidates], 'Is there anyone here who believes gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military? If you do, speak up now,' there was a deafening silence. No one raised their hands." Think Progress » Conservative Candidates All Support Banning Gays From The Military [TL]  Use Lastgraph to make spiffy graphs of your last.fm data. [via waxy] [TL] Attractors - Awesome Flash physics simulation slash game. [TL] "What the piece actually highlighted to me is people's relationship with their self-image, and perhaps even a mass(ive) desire to perform in public on several levels - both to be part of a crowd and to be individually reflexive." - cityofsound: The Weather Project [TL] "In a major victory for TV networks, a U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards." [TL] "The economy keeps growing, as does the enormous largesse of the wealthy, while the average person makes less than they did when Bush took Office." [TL]  "First discovered by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1978, the Greenpoint spill has been estimated at anywhere between 17 million and 30 million gallons—three times more oil than the Exxon Valdez spill. That makes it the largest known oil spill in American history." - Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint -- New York Magazine [TL]
Here are some of my favorite posts from the Tumblog over the last few days. Been doing my best to update it a lot; check it out over in the sidebar, on its own site tumblog.widerangle.org, or subscribe to the Wider Angle Tumblog RSS Feed.
 Alone in the night (via LalliSig) "Fuel pipeline and storage tank explosions do occasionally happen, and while they can be tragic in their own right, they don't result in the immolation of entire storage facilities or miles of pipeline." David Goldstein: I'm Plotting to Blow Up LAX Rachel Maddow's Campaign Asylum - Cheney Out, Jeb In? Schrodinger's LOLcat MAKE: Blog: Man builds a living out of LEGO "Apple's new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password name in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information." Hasan Elahi at Pop!Tech talks about his encounter with the FBI and the subsequent choice to document every moment of his life for all to see, theorizing that if he has tons of data and they have little, it devalues their currency. His story is alarming, his information art is overwhelming, and his photo of an official "no blowjobs" sign in an airport, sans text, is, well, awesome. "The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death." "A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday." German drives down subway stairs [via Rachel Maddow] "It's not so much about what you make, it's more about what you learn making it." Coudal Partners "The [Secret] service has begun training agents to fill 103 full-time slots as to be part of the current president's retirement detail." "A device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields doubled the survival rates of patients with brain cancer, according to an article apperaring in PNAS." Labels: Tumblog |
 
  
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