Let’s face it: Online ads are eyesores—even when they don’t suddenly become animate and seize control of your screen. To our rescue comes a conceptual artist named Steve Lambert, with an idea to spread art at the cost of advertisers. “I’ve always had an eye for ads, but wondered why they were there,”.. Read & Discuss

With a long-awaited long weekend just a few hours away, we’re sure a few of you will hear some Michael Jackson smash hits at a BBQ soon. Today also happens be his 50th birthday. Though the King of Pop’s career is near kaput (we said it), his brush with a different five-oh still warrants our undivided.. Read & Discuss

As North Korea threatens to recommence nuclear activity, we thought this photo essay of their state-sponsored propaganda posters was a valuable window in the country’s (or at least the country’s government’s) psyche. It’s fascinating to see our ideological differences from the other side, inked into lapidary, us-versus-U.S. slogans and stout, self-sufficient patriots.

Photo: The Korean text above translates to a finger-pointing reversal—“The US is truly an Axis of Evil.”

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There’s nothing like some wondrous photography to sate your anticipation between DNC bulletins. PSFK points us to the absolutely awesome work of Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke. For their Lightmark series, the two gallivant across the globe to shoot some sublime photographs, enhanced by their expert use.. Read & Discuss

Mother Jones spent a year gathering, grouping, and evaluating our military activity around the globe for their massive (and ongoing) dossier, “Mission Creep.” The project is full of knowledgeable, take-no-prisoner articles, but it’s their interactive map of America’s global military presence over the years that really caught our attention. The fascinating map distills how many soldiers we had in which countries since the Eisenhower administration with a camo-inspired color scale. If you move the year scrubber really…

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Apparently it’s linguistic Friday. The folks over at Boing Boing have exhumed Slim Gaillard’s Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary to help us all shed (learning) some retro me-lee-see (lingo). The promotional pamphlet is a lexicon of the jazzman’s awesome and humorous patois. It’s a perfect, hyphen-filled index for instant ’30s street cred and affected incomprehensibility.

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Before we mention Ray Bradbury and his speculative fiction, here’s the fantasist in a futuristic commercial for Sunsweet’s “Prune of Tomorrow.” It’s some astute and amusing casting on the brand’s part. Anyways, last week featured an overwhelming spate of scientific announcements and advancements—hitherto,.. Read & Discuss

Let’s face it: Online ads are eyesores—even when they don’t suddenly become animate and seize control of your screen. To our rescue comes a conceptual artist named Steve Lambert, with an idea to spread art at the cost of advertisers. “I’ve always had an eye for ads, but wondered why they were there,”.. Read & Discuss

With a long-awaited long weekend just a few hours away, we’re sure a few of you will hear some Michael Jackson smash hits at a BBQ soon. Today also happens be his 50th birthday. Though the King of Pop’s career is near kaput (we said it), his brush with a different five-oh still warrants our undivided.. Read & Discuss

As North Korea threatens to recommence nuclear activity, we thought this photo essay of their state-sponsored propaganda posters was a valuable window in the country’s (or at least the country’s government’s) psyche. It’s fascinating to see our ideological differences from the other side, inked into lapidary, us-versus-U.S. slogans and stout, self-sufficient patriots.

Photo: The Korean text above translates to a finger-pointing reversal—“The US is truly an Axis of Evil.”

Read & Discuss

There’s nothing like some wondrous photography to sate your anticipation between DNC bulletins. PSFK points us to the absolutely awesome work of Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke. For their Lightmark series, the two gallivant across the globe to shoot some sublime photographs, enhanced by their expert use.. Read & Discuss

Mother Jones spent a year gathering, grouping, and evaluating our military activity around the globe for their massive (and ongoing) dossier, “Mission Creep.” The project is full of knowledgeable, take-no-prisoner articles, but it’s their interactive map of America’s global military presence over the years that really caught our attention. The fascinating map distills how many soldiers we had in which countries since the Eisenhower administration with a camo-inspired color scale. If you move the year scrubber really…

Read & Discuss

Apparently it’s linguistic Friday. The folks over at Boing Boing have exhumed Slim Gaillard’s Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary to help us all shed (learning) some retro me-lee-see (lingo). The promotional pamphlet is a lexicon of the jazzman’s awesome and humorous patois. It’s a perfect, hyphen-filled index for instant ’30s street cred and affected incomprehensibility.

Read & Discuss

Before we mention Ray Bradbury and his speculative fiction, here’s the fantasist in a futuristic commercial for Sunsweet’s “Prune of Tomorrow.” It’s some astute and amusing casting on the brand’s part. Anyways, last week featured an overwhelming spate of scientific announcements and advancements—hitherto,.. Read & Discuss

We just posted GOOD 12: The Education Issue for your perusal. Here are a few outside stories to keep you in the scholastic mindset:- In case you missed our previous mention: this fall, a Texas school district will allow teachers the right to bear arms. The district’s superintendent justifies his life-and-death.. Read & Discuss

While we wait for Obama’s game-changing text, CNN educates us with a list of the best and worst vice president picks since Harry Truman’s right hand man, Alben Barkley. Traditionally, the ticket add-ons contribute more than just a pretty face, whether it’s supplementing the campaign with a state’s support.. Read & Discuss

Pythagoras was right. The Greek polymath once said that everything is numbers. Today—and presumably on 9/9/09 and so on—we thank him for his foresight. In that spirit, we scoured our internets for anything with the right angle for a Friday afternoon, or just anything eight-related. Here’s what our brief.. Read & Discuss