when 51% of registered voters say they definitely wont vote for you, you have electablility issues.

Design Within Reach 2005 champagne cork chair competition winners

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Model World:

It's often hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri's aerial photographs are real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, absent the imperfections of reality. Streets are strangely clean, trees look plastic, and odd distortions of scale create the opposite effect of what we expect from aerial photography--a complete overview, like military surveillance

Psychedelic Peru on Digging for the Truth, History Channel, now

grind wednesday at 8 pm on fam (dave liked it)

wilson pickett - rip'n' it upstairs

Underground restaurants.

I know I'm a little further out than most people on this one, but I am getting really worried about Monday. News out of Kuwait on Friday basically made 5% of the world oil resources disappear (what? you didn't hear this in the U.S. media?):

OPEC producer Kuwait's oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).

"PIW learns from sources that Kuwait's actual oil reserves, which are officially stated at around 99 billion barrels, or close to 10 percent of the global total, are a good deal lower, according to internal Kuwaiti records," the weekly PIW reported on Friday.

Combine that with spreading infrastructure attacks, plus the mess over Iran, and I really think the market drop on Friday wasn't just because Google missed it's numbers! I think we are actually in serious trouble.

When the other shoe drops, and Saudi Arabia is forced to admit that it too (like everyone else) has seriously overstated how much oil they have in the ground, there really won't be anywhere to run (financially speaking.) The reason these reserves are all over stated is because the daily limit OPEC allows its' members to pump out of the ground is a fraction of total reserves. So the higher your stated reserves, the more you can pump each day, and therefore the more money you make. At least until it all dries up way before people expected.

Just some happy thoughts for Sunday morning.

"Joe Klein goes out of his way to slime bloggers. Isn't Andrew Sullivan his colleague now?

Klein: Well I bow to nobody in, in my disdain for bloggers. They're all opinions and very little information."

readthebill.org

Ideas In Food: Improvisation and experimentation in the kitchen by Chefs Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot

a woman on a jeopardy rerun on gsn just admitted that she has purloined all the toilet paper she has used for the preceding 8 years, not from stores, just from publically available resources.

i dont have much faith in someone like kerry when he decides to get netrootsy but whatever it takes to animate him should be viewed as a good thing. that said, he had his chance to speak out forcefully, and he, by all measures, didnt. id call that a slow learning curve.

barrett jackson classic and muscle car auction on speed network - gearing up for big day on saturday starting at 2 pm

"Considered the ultimate collector car auction and exposition, this festive five day extravaganza offers more than 1000 of the world's finest classic and collector vehicles, and provides world-class, non-stop entertainment. Visual feast include spectacular displays of classic, muscle, sports, and futuristic automobiles, designer fashion shows, and auto memorabilia."

jim, youre in luck. state fair is on fox movie channel at 6am. better set your alarm. hows that for coincidence?

beatles on video

old joy

ever the asshole...

The first thing Lou Reed does when he walks into the Steven Kasher gallery, which will open one-half of his first major New York photography exhibit, "Lou Reed: New York," on Friday, is make fun of my name (too punny). The second thing he does is make fun of my tape recorder (too low-tech). Then, after he scolds the genial gallery owner about the font of some signage that displeases him, he settles in across a table from me, arms arranged protectively before him, fixes me with that cold stare that's oft been called reptilian and takes my questions.

Well, he doesn't exactly take my questions, but he does talk to me, and over the course of the next 45 minutes -- longer, much to the surprise and confusion of the trio of press handlers eavesdropping on our conversation from behind a half-wall, than our scheduled time -- the rock icon reveals himself to be a man of opposites, as high-contrast as the Warhol-era photography that first seriously inspired him to pick up a camera nearly three decades ago.

Beastie Boys new concert film at Sundance: Awesome! I fuckin' shot that!:

But as the Beastie Boys set out to commemorate a concert at Madison Square Garden, the hip-hop group had a different idea. Why not smash the model?

They decided to lend hand-held video cameras to 50 fans, told them to shoot at will, and then presented the end result in movie theaters in all its primitive, kaleidoscopic glory.

The result of this brainstorm is "Awesome ... ," which will be shown Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, before being released by ThinkFilm in late March. The movie is more than a new twist on an old form. "Awesome" - its full title praising the fans' involvement in the final film cannot be printed in this newspaper - plugs into some of the currents surging through the media and entertainment worlds.

I saw the Beasties once at the Garden and I can safely say that no camera would have survived on the floor during Paul Revere. Maybe they didn't play that song this time.

linklater directs A Scanner Darkly. quite a rogues gallery of stars including: robert downey, woody harrelson and winona ryder along with keanu reeves.

trailer +

imdb is blogging sundance which opens today.

dogs can detect cancer on peoples breath.

sf chronicles podcast interview with stephen colbert