If this is tool porn, it's the kind of porn you'd find at Sears. Sorry guys call me a snob, but I just can't get that excited over Craftsman.
Can you imagine dragging 1,470 defective tools back to the store for an exchange?

Geez --the link article was longer than a Vanity Fair cover story. I can't believe I've just spent the last half-hour reading the long-form history of Hot Poop.
I can't help thinking of the poor middle aged woman who will soon be explaining to her children why her naked penis-adorned body graced the cover of a Hot Poop LP those many years ago...

I loved the seventies and pop radio --and Chevy Van kicked ass! Why do they make you feel so bummed out? Did you get molested at summer camp? Poor fella...

Many people seem to be missing the point that Mazda doesn't have many viable options here -- it is at the mercy of it's insurance company at this point. Even if they wanted to strip non-critical parts for reuse, or donate the whole lot to Goodwill, it's not that simple. As one person has already pointed out, they can't claim their loss if they stand to profit on salvage --salvage which would be potentially unsafe and a legal liability.
Besides, they aren't shredding these things into chunks so they can strew them about on the ocean floor --the auto industry is pretty adept at recycling steel and plastic.
This is a bummer, but it was an accident. You want to talk about intentionally wasted money, resources and loss of life for no good reason? I-R-A-Q!

I would hardly call Joe Coleman a "primitive painter". He presents himself as a visionary folk artist, but he is a product of hipster art culture, having carefully appropriated and synthesized his style. He has adopted a look very common among primitive artists who are genuinely disturbed or at least naive in their approach, but his keen awareness of what he is doing disqualifies him in my opinion. He's an accomplished contemporary painter no doubt, but it irks me that his work is hanging in museums such as Baltimore's Museum of Visionary Arts alongside true folk art.

Gary? Is that you?

Manny @38 is right --this does not happen in Washington DC. I work in a museum on the National Mall, smack between the White House and the Capitol, nestled into an endless array of Federal buildings and people are constantly taking pictures of absolutely everything in sight. Only "suspicious looking" photography such as surveillance would be questioned by anyone, and I doubt even that. There's not much of a police presence here anyway, merely private security guards who couldn't care less. DC metro cops just can't be bothered.
I also drive past the Pentagon every day --I frequently see people on Washington Blvd. overlooking the parking lot taking photos of the parking lot, and the Pentagon itself without any hassles. I'm sure they are being videotaped, but they sure aren't being hassled!

What if we eat meat cloned from ourselves? You could use a carbon scaffold to support the growth of your own delicious muscles, fed with your own donated blood and various enzymes and developmental whatnot. Your lab/butcher becomes like a bank that maintains your meat account.
Think of the summer BBQ --be the host with the most who's also the roast...

So it seems that at least one great sci-fi author is an eccentric asshole who likes to provoke others with inflammatory rhetoric --this a surprise to someone??
Plus, it IS a rather interesting experiment in urban mythology...

"a coat hanger is not very durable, flexible and is not designed be protected or shielded from noise and electric fields."

Oh, NOW you tell us --I just modded my studio to the new spec and now there are coats strewn everywhere. Oh, and the NOISE! DAMN YOU ELECTRICAL FIELDS!

Oh come on people---only one comment and it's a geeky criticism??
Allow me to be the only one to point out how COOL this is. Saul Bass would have been proud. George Lucas would be ...well, who gives a fuck about Lucas anyway?

Oh dear GOD --that was exhausting. Reading Seth's diatribe is like being trapped at a boring party with a coke-addled motivational speaker.
His contrived "tribal" marketing theory is naive and simplistic, not to mention as outdated as his pat references to Jerry Seinfeld and Natalie Merchant.

This sounds like it's just a few shades away from Scientology --throw in a few warnings about Thetan levels and you are well on the way. Perhaps Susan Blackmore is a virus sent from space to over-analyze our systems of communication and culture.

JODY: Get over yourself.
The curator of this show should be commended for bringing modern street culture into this previously very conservative environment. Have you ever visited the National Portrait Gallery? It's not exactly a mecca for street culture, it's mostly rooms full of relatively staid portraiture, so this is very different. Is it true graffiti? No, not if it was made for a gallery, then it becomes Art. But that doesn't mean it has somehow lost value or meaning.
I saw this show and really enjoyed it, and I could care less about whether the graffiti artists have acieved maximum street cred. The are representing local DC artists and think it's pretty upbeat for Smithsonian.
For those who don't think graffiti is an art form, perhaps you have some more compelling argument that will convince the rest of us to stop believing that it is.

Okay, Officer Rivieri has got some rage issues to address, no doubt. Except for the unusual takedown, this was pretty tame for police brutality. Consider this is BALTIMORE.
What really grabbed me was how stupid and impudent the kid's behavior was. Anyone who has ever dealt with an angry cop knows not to call him "dude" when he's screaming at you. I suggest that this whiny youth has seriously needed to have his ass kicked by SOMEBODY for quite some time. Christ, I was wishing I could crawl into the video and throttle him myself. Officer Rage is indeed correct --if he keeps that up, someone will definitely kill him.