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Cassette tape art
Someone on Flickr who goes by iri5 has figured out one way to repurpose old cassette tapes as shown in the above image. You can check out six other cassette tape celebrity portraits in iri5’s Ghost in the Machine set HERE. (Hat Tip: Boing Boing)
FNL rumor is true?
According to a NY Post blog, that rumor we reported on last week about Friday Night Lights getting renewed for two more seasons is more fact than fiction.
The real-life ‘slumdog millionaire’
Only one contestant has ever won the grand prize on India’s version of Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. His name was Harshvardhan Nawathe and while he wasn’t a “slumdog,” he now devotes much of his time to impoverished children in Mumbai. Salon.com shares the inspiring true story of how Nawathe escaped the relentless glow of celebrity, started a […]
World Water Day
Since we take for granted the liquid that wakes us up in the morning, keeps us hydrated during the day and cleans our clothes every other day of the year, what do you say we celebrate World Water Day today by raising our own awareness and sparing a few dollars for international clean water initiatives? Here’s […]
DVD Fail
Unlike some of the haters, I happen to think a cache of 25 of the most revered American films is a fitting gift for a visiting prime minister. But if buying the top 25 films on the American Film Institute list wasn’t lazy enough, we now get the news from over the pond that President […]
Detroit’s beautiful, horrible decline
French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre took this and other harrowing photos of the motor city collected in a TIME photo essay.
Nice sermon, here’s a gun
Christian author/leadership guru John Maxwell was recently arrested at an airport when security found a handgun in his carry-on bag. Guess where he says he got the gun? From someone at a church he spoke at, of course. In a blog post on his Web site, Maxwell called the odd present a “gift from the heart” but still […]
Happy Patricks
Nothing says St. Patrick’s Day like a good cake wreck.