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http://justinelai.com/gallery/LaiJoinOrDie16.jpg (NSFW) “In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order.” (Borderline questionable artist statement.) 13:50

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/03/23/the-ecodrain-cuts-water-
heater-use-by-40/ The EcoDrain: heat exchanger to capture the wasted heat (not water!) that goes down the plughole. 09:34

http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html Chart of common household activities and common foods in low water use/high water use pairs. e.g. coffee–37 gallons, tea–9 gallons. Eating chicken instead of beef saves about as much water as making every other suggested change on the entire page! Dishwashers use less water than washing up by hand. 09:31

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/pirates_of_somalia.html Photos of Somalian pirates. The BBC claims that the captured pirates often aren’t punished, mostly because international law makes doing so difficult. 22:19

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/03.html#16 Rave about the Austin nightlife and the support it gets from the local government: “Right now I am looking at a street sign - a municipal street sign, presumably suported by an ordinance and everything - that says ‘Restricted lane, musician loading and unloading’.” 22:07

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Diikiw/Wikiid “User:Diikiw/Wiikid, formerly Wikiid, is an article that was created on the web site Wikipedia in 2008. It is notable in its attempt to become the first Wikipedia page to gain notoriety solely for the fact that it was a page on Wikipedia; this was intended to spark a debate as to whether or not Wikipedia could be considered a source notable enough to allow a entriess permanent entry on the site. It can be looked at both as metahumor and as a piece of postmodern art.” 21:23

http://drmartensforlife.com/ The Dr Martens “For Life” range: repairs for life, they promise. 19:33

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/business/media/12papers.html More newspaper doom and gloom: it’s likely that soon, major US cities will be without a daily paper. See also David Simon’s recent article pointing out that there’s a bunch of things that citizen journalists can’t do, like get judges to badger police when they refuse to give out information. I think papers need to do a better job of complementing and acknowledging the other available sources of news and information, and place less emphasis on reporting the stuff that happened yesterday. A newspaper is a truly terrible source of up-to-the-minute news; there’s no sense pretending that nothing noteworthy ever happens between the time the paper is sent to press and the time a reader buys it. 23:32

http://www.thesartorialist.com/photos/3089KLtwoWeb.jpg I’m really taken by this exceptional photograph of twins by The Sartorialist. For some reason the feeling I get from it is much the same feeling as the feeling I get from American Gothic—there’s a sadness to it, a strangeness, a secret running deep. [Update 1: feels a bit like Diane Arbus as well. The same twins are the subject of an October 2008 picture. Update 2: Via Altamira, the twins are from Saudi Arabia and are Sama and Haya Abukhadra. Update 3: another picture by the Sartorialist, this time October 2009 in Milan.] 22:22

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-
on-the-wall/ Errol Morris talks to press photographers about their favourite pictures of George Bush. 20:14

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090309/us_time/08599188378500 Ten Major Newspapers that may fold or go digital only in the next year. Some big names here: the SF Chronicle, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, Miami Herald. 19:11

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/03/what-stock-market-
really-thinks-about.html Why the state of the stock market is not necessarily indicative of the state of the economy as a whole. 19:09

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five Good pictures! See the page footer for links to pages on other “celebration gestures” 13:38