Psychogeography's resurgence continues: "Platial provides a home for people who love quirky geographical information or just want to mark the locations that have meaning to them. Sign up for a free account, and you can start building and sharing personalized maps, complete with place markers... View full entry
Iranian artist Seyed Alavi created a miniature fifty miles stretch of the Sacramento River woven onto a walkway bridge at the SMF. pruned View full entry
A very rare 2,500-year-old stone coffin with well-preserved color illustrations from Homer's epics, that show two warriors on a chariot, has been discovered in ancient tomb in Kouklia village near the coastal town of Paphos, Cyprus. abc sarcophagus=stone coffin. View full entry
When the animatronic distracts us from the artifacts. times essay prize | via | For more on the matter of museums, I refer you to our resident curator: quondam. View full entry
The Border Film Project is a group of three friends who gave out hundreds of disposable cameras to people on both sides of the Mexican-American border -- Mexicans trying to illegally enter the United States and "Minutemen," a group of citizens devoted to stopping them. The results are... View full entry
"An artist invited Germans to come and be symbolically gased with car exhaust fumes in a former synagogue. Jewish leaders and media commentators say he is belittling the Holocaust and insulting its victims. But hundreds of people have lined up for the experience." Spiegel View full entry
Street photography, and the right to photograph strangers in public, is challenged when one of the subjects of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Heads' series brings a lawsuit against the photographer. nytimes View full entry
"More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol: a statue of independence hero Simon Bolivar." cnn View full entry
Did Earth rocks, blown into orbit by explosive comet and meteor collisions, bring terrestrial life to one of Saturn's moons? Possibly, some scientists say. New Scientist. Full article:Earth rocks could have taken life to Titan 17 March 2006 • NewScientist.com •... View full entry
What if New York City was dirty bombed? We'll pop some pills and see the "walking dead." New Scientist. Complete article:Nuclear nightmare in Manhattan 18 March 2006 • Bruce Goldman A TRUCK pulls up in front of New York City's Grand Central Station, one of the most densely... View full entry
SIOUX FALLS, SD””In light of a broken engagement two years ago, area school-bus driver and longtime conspiracy enthusiast Robert Ericsson outlined an intricate theory to reporters Tuesday to explain his failure to begin a new relationship. "I am alone today due to the covert... View full entry
"On 16 March every year since 1988, Kurds have gathered in the northern Iraqi town of Halabja to commemorate one of the worst atrocities of Saddam Hussein's regime: the gassing of some 5,000 of the town's residents." But on the anniversary of its commemoration, it was torched by angry protesters... View full entry
A federal appeals court on Friday overturned a clean-air regulation issued by the Bush administration that would have let many power plants, refineries and factories avoid installing costly new pollution controls to help offset any increased emissions caused by repairs and replacements of... View full entry
As expected, a federal judge ruled on Friday that Google, the Internet search engine, must turn over some search data including 50,000 Web addresses to the government for a study of child pornography online. But the judge, James Ware of the Federal District Court for Northern California, denied a... View full entry
He was the most inventive and engaging of all the Bauhaus artists, galvanising the movement to ever-greater heights. What a shame Britain never embraced László Moholy-Nagy when he fled the Nazis in the 1930s. Guardian View full entry