For a variety of reasons, too complicated to explain in this short intro paragraph, there’s no NSFW column from me this week. All will be revealed soon, but suffice it to say that any or all of the following are involved: 1) a semi-secret project 2) an unexpected [...]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is on a roll. While he’s probably had better days than today , he’s lately been shooting off emails left and right in response to customers’ concerns. We just were sent what appears to be one such Jobs response, sent last week surrounding the [...]

Last summer, artist Molly Dilworth began creating physical art for the digital landscape. How? By painting large-scale, rooftop murals that could be viewed and photographed via satellite, eventually appearing on Google Earth ’s virtual globe. As she explains on her project page , the idea was motivated by her desire to characterize an [...]

In the cyberdelic daze of the early 1990s, Mondo 2000 was the publication-of-record. Founded by our dear pal RU Sirius, it was not just a magazine (with an expiration date), but a "strange attractor" for freaks interested in the new edge of computers, pranks, digital art, fringe culture, psychedelics, [...]

Having finished the manuscript for his next novel, Zero History , William Gibson is taking a break from fiction by answering a wide-ranging set of questions from the readers on his blog. His answers are really good and interesting. This one should be graven in marble over every beginning writer's desk.

A "Creator's [...]

Yesterday, my Awesome Friend Leah introduced me to the wonders of Animal Review , the blog that reviews animals, as though they were books, albums or snooty French restaurants. For instance, in a contrarian drubbing, the likes of which haven't been seen since Christopher Hitchens laid into Mother Teresa, Animal [...]

A teenager in Iowa made her prom dress — and a matching vest for her date — out of blue gum wrappers. It's actually kind of pretty!

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From NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory today, this gorgeous new image from The Herschel Space Observatory: "a cosmic garden of budding stars, each expected to grow to 10 times the mass of our sun." The image was taken using infrared light by [...]

Johannes from the Austrian net-kook-art group Monochrom sez, "monochrom is a magazine object appearing in telephone book format, which is published by the art/tech group of the same name. monochrom came into being in the mid-1990s as a fanzine for cyberculture, science, theory, cultural studies and the archaeology of pop [...]

Now available as prints at Zazzle , a series of arcade game propaganda posters for Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Frogger and Joust (above) by illustrator Steve Thomas .

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Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel collaborated with a French filmmaker to create an erotic short film called Rites d'Amour et de Maths ; in it, a doomed mathematician discovers the formula for love and tattoos it on his lover's belly. It's an homage to Japanese writer Yukio Mishima's movie Yukoku and his subsequent seppuku suicide. [...]

Thinking about going digging for gold in the dumpsters around your town? Start with the FAQ at Dumpsterworld, the online community for skip-spelunkers:

There's many reasons that perfectly good things go in the garbage. One of the biggest reasons is business practice. Remember that businesses are there to make profit. Goods that are [...]

Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead , and Griffith's Observatory , has 40 important tips for cartoonists. There's good advice here for any kind of writer or creative person. Cartooning Advice: Zippy's Bill Griffith gives his Top 40 List on Creating Comics

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