Bad Romance on the Iowa State Carillon
Awesome. Hat tip to my friend MJ for this one.
Gaga on Stage
Yep, way up in the nosebleed section. Also, photos from my new iPhone4. They come out pretty nice.
links for 2010-04-09
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Um… a… strange photos. yeah
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Guys – if you cheat on your fiancee, she gets to keep the ring. Sorry, that's always been the rule, and it always will be, until they stop the idiot practice of engagement rings altogether. May that day come soon.
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An excellent counter-point to prudish argument that Erykah Badu's video is inappropriate because children would "find nudity disturbing." Far from it.
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“A one-legged Coots is better than no Coots at all.” I wish my obituary would turn out this colorful.
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a Jewish Photographer who documented Eastern European Jewish life before WWII – and how he consciously defined his work to influence how we think about that culture and in the process hid away some of his best work.
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No. Really? I can't imagine why.
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Chicago has "the most extensive and sophisticated video surveillance system in the United States" and all cameras are linked together. No wonder I'm so ill at ease in that city.
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8 pages of article on Lady GaGa. You'll probably read the whole thing.
links for 2010-04-08
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8 pages of article on Lady GaGa. You'll probably read the whole thing.
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The always delicious Sady Doyle reviews Patti Smith's memoir and tangentially some other writings by women about sex, and how they are received by the masses (often not well, as it turns out.)
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Since when is it okay to celebrate traitors who fought the government over their right to own their fellow man? This is not something to be celebrated – it's something to pretend never happened in your family or in your state.
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Funny while playing Risk. Not so funny when you're talking about the country I personally live in.
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A Java port of Quake II, using Google Web Toolkit to compile it into JAVASCRIPT (!) that runs in your browser, without plug-ins. This is not your grandfather's Flash app. This is the new shit.