Would you read a book on a screen or is the old-fashioned way the mode that suits you best? Either way, the e-book might be here to stay.
Reading Digitally
Submitted by Rhea Saran on April 23, 2006 - 6:33pm. Artspy: Developments in the artsReligion playing bigger role in college students’ politics
Submitted by Daniel L. Sorrell on April 23, 2006 - 4:12pm. Religion and the Public SphereA new poll finds religion plays increasingly bigger role in shaping the political leanings of college students
AP Stylebook: gay spring cleaning
Submitted by Jacqueline Schneider on April 23, 2006 - 11:35am. LGBTQ Media VisibilityThe AP Stylebook updated their LGBT oriented entries last months after a gazillion years of being behind in terminology.
IBM is so gay?
Submitted by Jacqueline Schneider on April 23, 2006 - 10:13am. LGBTQ Media VisibilityThe violins play, the people look off to the side with a slight smile, and IBM is the United Nations and Gay & Lesbian Task Force all rolled into one big fairytale mega-corporation. Sigh.
Orangutan Kickboxing
Submitted by Miriam Gross on April 22, 2006 - 7:26pm. Food PoliticsYet another thing people probably shouldn't make animals do (to add to a growing list that includes getting married and dressing up like Michael Jackson): kickboxing.
Until two years ago, a themepark in Bangkok called Safari World held kickboxing exhibitions, using orangutans dressed in bright shorts and boxing gloves. The practice had been featured at the park for decades, and part of the show reportedly involved an organgutan dressed as a doctor attending to one of the fallen athletes. Here's a video that includes a clip of the performance.
Horse Cops!
Submitted by Miriam Gross on April 21, 2006 - 12:16am. Food PoliticsThe New York Police Department has begun using horse-mounted units to patrol high-crime neighborhoods like East New York and Brownsville, according to an article in the New York Times. Traditionally limited to Central Park and the occasional political demonstration, horses are becoming more popular as crime-fighting partners.
Fashion Editor, Robin Givhan Wins Pulitzer
Submitted by Janet Mock on April 20, 2006 - 10:34am. Cut On the Bias: The Fashion BusinessGivhan wins Pulitzer Prize for criticism for her fashion reporting for what the judges called her "witty, closely observed essays that transform fashion criticism into cultural criticism."
Scary movie, scary success, and scary consequences
Submitted by Alexis Dahan on April 19, 2006 - 5:47pm. Considerations on the 7th ArtScary Movie series won Easter records for its fourth opus. Now that the public has voted, and because there is no 22nd amendment in the movie industry, get ready for a yearly scary movie.
Sephora takes on Penneys
Submitted by Katharine Jones on April 18, 2006 - 10:34pm. The Sport of FashionI’m all for making the formerly inaccessible available to all, but this just seems like a poor match.
Kate makes an expected return to skinny jeans
Submitted by Katharine Jones on April 18, 2006 - 9:54pm. The Sport of FashionFashion, among other things, is suppose to be fresh and exciting, and in maybe only idealistically, gives people a chance to reinvent themselves.
Major motion picture studios just can't let it go
Submitted by Matthew A. Stern on April 18, 2006 - 9:42am. Digital Right and Digital WrongsThe major studios continue to prove that they just don't get it in terms of providing online content. Continued adherence to their assinine business model finds industry approved websites offering mainstream movie downloads haunted by the specter of DRM, crippling the consumer's ability to - you guessed it - spend his/her money and get the product s/he wants in return.
For whom is format shifting an issue?
Submitted by Matthew A. Stern on April 18, 2006 - 8:04am. Digital Right and Digital WrongsA quick blurb on Boing Boing about a recent video interview with President Bush raises some serious questions about how far the RIAA's increasingly shrinking conception of what constitutes fair use and it's scorched earth policy against violators will extend. It appears that the President himself may have run afoul of the RIAA's recent attempts at rule revision.
What does the new Gospel of Judas mean for Christianity?
Submitted by Daniel L. Sorrell on April 17, 2006 - 9:49pm. Religion and the Public SphereHistorians and religious dogmatists clash about the meaning of the new gospel.
Earthquake vs. Hurricane, New Orleans Loses
Submitted by Vi Landry on April 17, 2006 - 6:59pm. The New New OrleansSan Francisco was a “new metropolis†at the time the earthquake hit, while New Orleans has been in a state of economic decline for centuries. Historians fear this may prevent investors from contributing to the rebuilding.
Reverend Moon's sushi empire
Submitted by Jennifer Huang on April 17, 2006 - 3:11pm. Food PoliticsReverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the controversial Unification Church and self-proclaimed "Second Coming of Christ," may have realized his dream of becoming "King of the Ocean."