John Kricfalusi provides examples that show how the quality of Yogi Bear depictions has kept pace with a general decline in the quality of Western culture over the years. (From left to right: 1960s, 1990s, 2000s)
Over at MAKE, Phil Torrone blogs:
This is interesting - it seems that a group of artists have celebrated 1-31-07 in their own way and have created a series of political themed LED art sculptures and (you guessed it) placed them all over Boston. Pictured here, Bush & Bin Laden… Click on through to see more [...]
Our favorite federal administration, the TSA, has just launched a blog, called Evolution of Security. It kicks off with a cheerful message from Kip Hawley. I applaud his reason for launching the blog…
One of my major goals of 2008 is to get TSA and passengers back on the same side, working together. We need your [...]
Richard Knerr, the co-founder of Wham-O has died at the age of 82. Here’s the Los Angeles Times obit.
Wham-O was a toy inventor’s dream; a company where garage tinkers could show up with wacky ideas and watch them turn into national fads in a matter of months. Wham-O was the birthplace of some of the [...]
Wei Wenhua was beaten to death after he snapped photos of a confrontation on the street between village residents and authorities. His death has sparked controversy in Chinese media, and the blogosphere…
Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers’ hero — a “citizen journalist” turned martyr. The construction company manager was driving [...]
Lately there are a lot of articles bashing Windows Vista for its lack of driver support, stability or poor performance. All of these concerns are true just like all previous Windows versions.
I remember sites cropping up left and right back in 2001 that were dedicated to showing consumers how to get hold of Windows XP [...]
Da Fen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen, China is apparently home to thousands of artists who primarily paint inexpensive copies of famous art works by the old masters. Over at CT2, Kevin Kelly posted a short riff on these “original hyper fake reproductions.”
From his post: “In China there is an entire village given over [...]
Compared to the English-speaking world, the Japanese have gone blog wild, writes The Washington Post. They write Web logs at per capita rates that are off the global charts.
“Although English speakers outnumber Japanese speakers by more than 5-1, slightly more blog postings are written in Japanese than in English,” according to Technorati, the [...]
Covering the Mouse is an MP3 blog that focuses on cover versions of Disney songs, with extensive notes on the original songs and the context in which the cover arose.
An Excerpt: “The covering band is a British duo called PSAPP (pronounced ’sap’). They’re most noted for being the artists behind the theme song to the [...]
Bruce Schneier has written a stunning essay on the War on Terror, explaining how it has devolved into a “War on the Unexpected” — an arms-flapping hysterical world where every suspicion must be reported and investigated, and where every cop in the chain is encouraged to escalate every report. Governments are asking us to spy [...]
John Kricfalusi (creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show) says: “I just started a new series of blog posts on the Bakshi ‘Mighty Mouse’ cartoons we did. Every week (Thusday nights) I’m putting up a freshly packaged episode of The Bakshi Mighty Mouse Show I directed. I’m including funny bumpers and commercials that didn’t [...]
Ren and Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi has been writing about cartoon characters with personality. Today, he examines the appeal of Popeye: “Here’s the opposite of bland. Now I knew tons of little kids who indentified with Popeye, even though he is a bizarre looking 90 year old toothless man who eats terrible tasting spinach. Everything [...]
The Onion, truly America’s finest news source seems to have scooped every one with their list of the iPhone’s most highly anticipated features. If you can’t muster the mouse click to head over to their site to read the Infographic I’ve conveniently included the feature list below.
Nanotechnology enables it to reassemble itself when thrown against [...]
Lucifer the Lightbearer, aside from having one of the more provocative and wonderful names ever, was an important anarchist newspaper. Originally the Kansas Liberal of Valley Falls, and eventually the American Journal of Eugenics, it was, throughout its incarnations, it was concerned with marital and sexual freedom, as well as more strictly political aspects of [...]
So Apple went and released Safari for Windows. It is interesting why Apple did this. Safari may be faster, as the Royal Steveness claimed, and provides a number of nice features that are not in IE7 or Firefox by default (e.g. Forms auto-fill and resizable text fields), but I am not sure it would get [...]
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