links for 2010-08-12

The Misconception: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. The Truth: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time.

Feminist writer Sady Doyle (of Tiger Beatdown fame) has been writing some very nice pieces about women and pop culture over at the Atlantic. Check them out.

Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.

If you're searching for artistic prompts, these suggestions for improving the Bravo program "Work of Art" would probably be great inspiration.

Threats for drawing the Mohammed, threats for not drawing cooler pictures of Mohammed (I like her drawings) threats for a Facebook page that it turns out she didn't make. Man, everyone start the pile-on.

"Cultivating the culture of food and urban agriculture in Indianapolis." – The folks from our CSA (Big City Farms) are involved in this great not-for-profit promoting local, organic food sources

Long-gone murals in New York, excavated from old photos and posted on Flickr.

Hitchens on Pullman's deconstruction of the Christ mythos: "This is almost literally to split the difference, and to raise the possibility that Christianity can be salvaged from itself, or at any rate from its later accretions, by a sort of “back to basics” revisionism. The difficulty that Pullman never quite confronts is that this involves what is vulgarly known as fundamentalism: an unmediated contact with the original message. Atheist though he is, Pullman turns out to be a Protestant atheist."