| Capture the Moment Here's an exhibition from the Newseum where every Pulitzer Prize-winning picture tells a story -- literally. To listen to the photographer's voice-over narration, you'll need Shockwave in your browser. The collection includes classic, historic shots from Iwo Jima, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs crisis, the fall of the Iron Curtain, as well as contemporary crime scenes, birth scenes, and moments of joy and reunion, misery, and death. |
| Supercalafragalistic Not your father's movie-review site, Supercalafragalistic.com mixes up a motley grab bag of bizarre cartoons, random audio clips, and quirky tunes to liven up the staid thumbs up/down approach. Listen to Karl from Sling Blade musing on the merits of Highlander 4: Endgame. Rock out to The Poorly Animated Stick Band's cover of the Charlie's Angels theme. But whatever you do, don't miss Hannibal Lecter's devastating critique of The Family Man. Site creator John Venable sums it up, "We wanted to make a site where the review itself is actually entertaining and that's where all the animation, music, and voiceovers come in." |
| Aeclectic Tarot The tarot deck consists of 78 symbolic picture cards -- 22 known as the major arcana and 4 suits of 14 cards, the minor arcana -- that are "used for divination, meditation, self-improvement, spiritual purposes, card games...." If you're new to tarot or to this elegant resource, start with the FAQ, then browse through the gallery of more than 250 diverse decks. You'll find reviews, images, and ordering information for traditional favorites like the Rider-Waite and Aleister Crowley cards, as well as distinctive decks with Arthurian, dragon, and goddess themes. |
| Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies Straw Men falling down Slippery Slopes may sound like a Wizard of Oz site, but Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies is in fact a trenchant analysis of classic argumentative "fake outs." You know -- the kind of logical points that seem to make sense but are in fact total bunk. Your parents probably introduced you to the classic False Dilemma ("Brush your teeth or comb your hair, junior."). You may also be familiar with the aforementioned slippery slope ("First they take our sling shots, then they take our submachine guns!"), or the last-ditch ad hominem attack ("What do you know, you're just a pampered ivy-league fratboy!"). You'll find plenty of other tips and tricks here. |
| Bloomsbury Magazine Taking its name from a legendary group of very clever English people (Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes), this jam-packed literary salon is aimed squarely at the serious reader. Yes, they do sell books, nevertheless the commentary is impeccable: a discussion of corporate globalism and Naomi Klein's No Logo, "bursts of dirty thundering" from Hunter Thompson's latest collection of letters, and Martin Amis and the messy divide between the novel and memoir. You'll also find a handy summation of last year's literary highlights. |
| Cinema Diabolico Vengeful Aztec mummies, masked marauders, vampires, luridly colored demons, and the resplendent superhero El Santo highlight this devilish collection of Mexican movie theater art from the 1950s and '60s. The gallery of scanned U.S. and Mexican B-grade movie posters is a bestiary of sci-fi, horror, and shock-shlock: A is for Abominable, B is for Brain Eaters, and of course, Z is for Zombie. Now, if only we could download the trailers. |
| Sci-Philately Science-loving philatelists rejoice! At long last your passion for the investigation of natural phenomena shakes hands with devotion to stamp collecting. Yes, it's a big ol' annotated index of science stamps. The word philately comes from a Greek phrase that roughly translates as "exemption from payment." Stamps are a way of prepaying for postage. Get it? Now get with Einstein, Newton, Curie, Planck, and Bohr. But, as your host Maike Naylor observes, "Some of the most satisfying stamps are not the ones displaying portraits, but those presenting ideas and experiments, such as the photoelectric effect, cloud chamber photographs, or the solar absorption spectrum." You got that right. |
| futurefeedforward Viral sushi, One-Click Constituent technology, light-emitting polyester wardrobes for publicly-held individuals... there's something peculiar going on at this future news site. Don't let the predictable corporate subpages like "About Us," "Products & Services," or "Investor Relations" fool you, but note the footer that reads "all rights reserved, hamlet monkeys printing machines." This is not another dot-com time bomb, it's a paradigm-rocking entity committed to irreverent, unconventional invention of the future via Temporal Networking. Dreamers, prophets, and idiosyncratic underachievers should be sure to check out the careers page. |
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