• Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen
  via BoingBoing and Howard Rhinegold: “A single village in China is responsible for cranking out 60% of the world’s paintings…”
  (tags: portraits china curiosa)
• Vietnamese guitar which has extremely scalloped fretboard
  (tags: musics youtube)
• Vietnamese guitar
  scalloped frets, with cigarette
  (tags: musics youtube)
• Saturday Matinee: 1925 from Shorpy
  my god what horrid creatures
  (tags: chronotope photography)

• Zydeco in the back seat
  Back Seat Duet: 1938 from Shorpy (Russell Lee did wonderful work)
  (tags: photography musics)

• Google Earth 4.3
  a nice intro to the new features
  (tags: geospatial googleearth)
• Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat
  George Monbiot: “…While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760m tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals…”
  (tags: agriculture data energy)
• zefrank: stewart on the “bitter” remark
  yup, watch the whole thing…
  (tags: argybargy)

• Cajun scarytrousers
  Fais Do-Do: 1938 from Shorpy
  (tags: photography musics)
• Scary Trousers: the etymon
  Neil Gaiman tells the story
  (tags: video scarytrousers)

• Fargo Yeah
  (tags: video supercuts)
• every ‘Dude’ from The Big Lebowski
  (tags: video supercuts)
• on Index Supercuts
  from unmediated
  (tags: supercuts)
• Cajun Cooking: 1938 from Shorpy
  (tags: musics photography)
• On The Limits Of Memory (Laura & Edna)
  from The Boat Lullabies
  (tags: photography)
• google earthwalk with arduino at berlin designmai 2007
  (tags: geospatial interface haptics)

This from 1963, and they don’t make ’em like that anymore:

• On food pricing
  from Jo Walsh at Mapping Hacks
  (tags: food politics agriculture)

• Upstaged by a drummer
  via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog
  (tags: musics video)
• Magnatune: Classical offerings
  (even offer a “before 1800” mix)
  (tags: audio mp3 creativecommons)
• Scarytrousers
  Dano’s Roadhouse: 1938 from Shorpy
  (tags: photography)
• Tom Lehrer – We will all go together when we go
  CrookedTimber tells us that he’s 80. I owe him a lot…
  (tags: video metastuff)

• The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time – Nerve.com
  (you probably shouldn’t even THINK of looking…)
  (tags: video comedy)

• Andrew Thomas Huang’s Doll Face
  (tags: animation video whoa)