Consolation Champs

I’m not a music blogger, but in the spirit of all the year-end lists that are popping up on proper music blogs, I thought I’d make my own. My criteria were simple. The disc had to come out sometime in 2007, and I had to actually care enough to buy it. I don’t buy that […]

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Croatian design agency Bruketa & Zinic have created an annual report for the food company Podravka that features a book of recipes that has blank pages until the book is actually baked in an oven. Very very cool, but I wonder if they were sending a subversive message about the company’s finances? (via the always-fascinating […]

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I have got to spend a few days here, in lovely Grantsburg, Wisconsin. Who’s up for a JamesMcNallyFest?
I found this, by the way, through the very cool, though slightly creepy Spock.com, which had already built a profile page for me before I ever visited the site. I joked on Twitter that that’s probably exactly why […]

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I just read an interesting article on Wired News. Former evangelical minister Michael Dowd is now touring the United States in a van with an image of the Jesus and Darwin fishes kissing on its side.
Dowd is a proponent of evolutionary theology, which embraces the science of evolution while maintaining faith in God as the […]

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So President Bush remains adamant that Iran is a threat? Even after his own intelligence services have told him otherwise? Why am I not surprised? I’m reading Frank Rich’s book The Greatest Story Ever Sold right now, and it’s all sounding very familiar. I just hope that the presidential election campaign can steamroll any “ambitions” […]

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