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• BAGnewsNotes: The "What" Of What's Wrong With The Barack Osama New Yorker Cover
  Dissection of the controversial New Yorker cover
  (tags: satire images)

• Map of World Religions
  (tags: maps religion demographics world)
• %w(Akita On Rails) * 2.0 / Rolling with Rails 2.0 - The First Full Tutorial - Part 1
  best rails 2.0 tutorial changed locations
  (tags: rails rails2.0 tutorial)
• The return of British avant garde fiction
  On the potential for a movement of experimental British fiction
  (tags: fiction avantgarde literary)

• Tomorrow Museum » Archive » The Dystopic Hippie Election Movie That Might Have Stopped the Twenty-sixth Amendment
  "Wild in the Streets" as an "elaborately staged pro-Nixon operation".
  (tags: election film 60s youth)
• Grotesque #2 by Sergio Ponchione - a set on Flickr
  Preview of second issue of 'Grotesque'
  (tags: comics fantagraphics ignatz)
• SMERF
  "SMERF is a Ruby on Rails plugin that...

• Mingus: Charles Mingus Cat Toilet Training Program
  Exactly what the title says.
  (tags: mingus jazz pets training)

Last night I attempted to watch William Klein’s A Model Couple but I accidentally put on A Perfect Couple, directed by Robert Altman in 1979. OK, I love Altman and here’s one that I haven’t watched yet, still from his 70’s period but the tail-end, that post-Nashville, starting-to-lose it phase that produced films like A Wedding and Quintet, culminating in (the brilliant)...

• Palladio: The Way Things Go: When Appropriators Collide
  Apple rips off Chirstian Marclay for an iPhone ad.
  (tags: marclay advertising apple rights)
• Soceity of Authors celebrating 50 years
  Society of Authors chooses 50 greatest translations of the past 50 years
  (tags: translation literature)