Trend-tracking site BuzzFeed gets $3.5 million in funding | News - Digital Media - CNET News.com
Buzzfeed recieves funding. Johah Peretti, who you may remember as Eyebeam’s Director of R&D and from Black People Love Us.com is a co-founder.
The L Magazine - A Word From Our Art Department
The L Magazine is now accepting submissions for our 2008 Comix Issue. Submissions should exemplify a unique artistic style and variety of subject matter. Deadline Wednesday October 29
Music and Culture: Falafel Wars (Lebanon: Israel stole our falafel)
“Lebanon is planning on filing an international law suit against Israel for violating a food copyright, Fadi Abboud, president of the Lebanese Industrialists Association, told the al-Arabiya network.” A “feta cheese precedent” is cited, which for titling alone I find amusing.
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By Javier Morales. Very very nice.
More Men Are Unabashedly Embracing Their Love of Cats - NYTimes.com
“[Cat Owners] make the best boyfriends because they’re totally cool with staying home and watching a movie,” said Elizabeth Daza, 28, who dated a cat-owning man for eight years. “Straight men with cats seem to be really secure and stable. They don’t need to be running around the park and proving their masculinity like the dog guys.”
Google Puts on Gmail Goggles to Prevent Drunken Emailing | The New York Observer
Only active late at night on weekends, gmail’s mail goggles can help prevent you from sending drunken messages to people you really wish you hadn’t.
zach shipko - Olafur Eliasson vs Sprinkler Lady
I see this as a rather scathing critique of Olafur Eliasson’s work. It mimiks the artist whose subject matter is virtually any discussion the object happens to be mentioned in. Via: Rhizome
Paul Slocum - time_with_basketball.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
Using the 1992 Olympic Dream Team game against Croatia to make Jesus & Mary Chain guitar sounds
Radar Reviews : Radar Online : RADAR REVIEWS: ‘Blindness’
“I’m not such a big fan of movies with lots of raping!” begins Choire Sicha in his review of Blindness. We’d advice him to avoid the “best of” ass raping movie scenes currently on display at the Museum of Sex
For those who happen to be in Paris, Cory Arcangel (and others) collaborate with Pierre Bismuth.
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
