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My pal Fereshteh created this awesome project to have people imitate popular ringtones with their voices. You can download them for free at Myxer. This site is a cool way for artists to create ringtones and wallpaper for fun and profit. I’ll probably be making my own in the near future. What about you?
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Two teens take down Hollywood.

It is perhaps no surprise that the world’s first anti-rape condom was created and is being marketed in a country with one of the highest rape rates in the world. It is estimated that a woman is raped in South Africa every 35 seconds, (that’s SECONDS, folks, not minutes).
The anti-rape condom, being marketed by [...]

This is a nice little video about CodePink from Washingtonpost.com.
Click for more on CodePink.

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I just love this headline. When was the last time you saw a bizarre hexagon?
Bizarre hexagon spotted in Saturn’s clouds - Space.com - MSNBC.com:

Tired of performance artist Ann Coulter’s hateful rants? Do something about by clicking here:
Media Matters - Ann Coulter Action Center:
So far, Media Matters has identified 39 newspapers across the country that carry Coulter’s column. Through emails and calls from people like you, nine of them have agreed to drop her from their publication. That’s almost [...]

Al Gore Knows an Inconvenient Truth About Apple | Greenpeace USA:
As part of the Board of Directors for Apple Inc., Al Gore is in a unique position to help green the company. In fact, Greenpeace and 73 other groups have called on Gore to help make Apple an industry leader against the growing problem of [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZIXoCiMHRE

As a big fan of street art, I was happy to stumble upon this new documentary on global graf art, Bomb It.
From Bomb it:
While some believe the roots of graffiti can be traced back to pre-linguistic cave markings and the innate human need for self-expression, graffiti remains a highly controversial issue. Graffiti raises important questions [...]

To quote Mr. T, I pity the fools:
I believe that we’re close to a tipping point right now. What happened to the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 could easily be happening to us for essentially the same reasons. Imperial overreach, inability to reform, rigid economic ideology. … The world’s balance of power didn’t change [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaRyDLMvA

This viseo is from a late night comedian who speaks from the heart about sobriety. While taking an honest look at sobriety, it is one of the more real moments you’ll see in the media. It’s also one of the rare times that you will see compassion for the frailties of pop stars. Yes it’s [...]

Anyone up for creating a Buddha Machine orchestra?
buddha machine - Buy and discuss your FM3 buddha machine here - What is a Buddha Machine?:
The Buddha Machine is a modified version of a device used in Buddhist temples throughout Asia, which feature repeating loops of chanting monks or nuns. This particular incarnation is the brainchild of [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKVZYVz58zU

In fascinating use of media that remediates Constructivist graphics and other propagandist techniques. Brilliant!

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Again the wonders of YouTube allow us to unearth obscure moments of culture jam history. In this case, someone actually taped a pirate TV interruption on Chicago way back when. Does any body remember Max Headroom?

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While doing some research on children’s shows of the ’70s, I came across an obscure reference in Wikipedia for an H.R. Pufnstuf parody called, “The Altered State of Druggachusetts.” And thanks to the wonders of YouTube (the people’s archive), I found it. Click and enjoy!

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I saw this Sandow Birk “The Liberation of Iraq” painting at BoingBoing and just loved it. It’s a send-up on the propagandistic “realism” of communist art.
Might we be witnessing a movement of “postironic realism”? Birk’s piece reminds me a bit of Kate Kretz’s “Blessed Art Thou” (click here for my previous post on this [...]

Alan Watts Podcast:
Alan Watts is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. In addition to his 28 books, Alan Watts delivered hundreds of public lectures and seminars the recordings of which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic University, a non-profit organization dedicated to higher education. For the past [...]

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Mother Jones has a nice little interview with Public Enemy’s Chuck D:
Chuck D and the State of the Black Union:
MJ: A lot has happened to hip hop in 20 years. How do you think Public Enemy fits into the scene in 2007?
CD: When people see us, they look at us and say wow, that’s hot. [...]

This and going Inside Rumsfeld’s mind.

Italian artist Paolo W. Tamburella has created a fascinating project. During a month he traveled across India and collected dead soccer balls to create an erie portrait of the country by sewing together a ball tapestry. The photographs are gorgeous and the entire project is part of a documentary called “Football Hunter.” Unfortunately I couldn’t [...]

Blogdisease officially endorses Naco ( Mexican slang for “tacky” or “trashy”). (Note to Naco Webmasters: please turn off automatic music download!)
From the Naco MySpace page (misspellings intact):
Naco is originally a derogative term used by upper and middle class Mexicans to describe things and people they felt were way beneath them in terms of hipness, taste [...]