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20 May 2009 20:13

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Offbeat: Awesome Simpsons obscuro: Gummi Venus de Milo

Homer once sparked sexual harassment drama after grabbing an animated version of one of these off a young woman’s pants. Now, they’re real. Whoa. source

13 May 2009 23:44

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Culture, Tech: Steve Jobs has probably never had a portrait this cool before

Steve Jobs as art
  • Dylan Roscover’s Apple fandom knows no bounds. In this type-driven treatment, using classic Apple typefaces, Roscover looks back on Apple’s “Here’s to the crazy ones” ad campaign.source

24 Apr 2009 14:49

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Culture, U.S.: A artistic, graphical, humorous approach to The Supreme Court

Maira Kalman takes to drawing her thoughts on the history of the court and the “elegant” Ruth Bader Ginsburg. source

06 Feb 2009 09:51

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Tech: Hate ads? Like art? Try out this new Firefox extension.

  • Sick of ads? In this era when it feels like every single page on the Interweb is loaded with ads, you may just feel like blocking them, and of course, many people do. (Hopefully not on this page, though. :( ) Firefox, in particular, allows you to easily sidestep ads. source
  • Sick of ads? In this era when it feels like every single page on the Interweb is loaded with ads, you may just feel like blocking them, and of course, many people do. (Hopefully not on this page, though. :( ) Firefox, in particular, allows you to easily sidestep ads.
  • A creative solution Add-Art allows you to replace those ads for Hardee’s with something a little more visually appealing (and less Thickburger) – a display of a contemporary artist’s work, gallery-style. Those spaces are gonna be there anyway. Might as well not be blank, right? source

19 Jan 2009 01:16

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Tech: Polaroid photographs can be quite beautiful

Wanna see more instant-camera art? Check out Polanoid. source

06 Jan 2009 14:29

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Offbeat, Tech: A look at this man’s face is a look at nipples

  • An artistic protest against Facebook. In the wake of the breast-feeding saga rocking Facebook, one enterprising artistic type decided to make a collage of his face entirely out of nipples, just to see if it’d set off the censors. It’s still up as of this moment. We’d show you the photo, but it’s got a lot of nipples in it. source