March 2011

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Mar 26, 2011

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via YMFY The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of...

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Mar 24, 2011

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There is just something about time-lapse and tilt-shift photography that I just cannot get enough of. Here's another spectacular one to add to the list. Terj Sorgjerd spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, with temperatures around...

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Mar 22, 2011

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A friend tipped me off to this collection of photos Stanley Kubrick shot for Look magazine in the summer of 1949. The accompanying feature was called "Chicago--city of contrasts" so I guess it's fitting that my friend was drawn to the the body-building baby and I'm stuck on the Pump Room, a post-prohibition star magnet described...

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Mar 21, 2011

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After the quake, Japan’s major TV networks stopped running regular programming and instead focused on covering news of the disaster 24/7. Advertisers, meanwhile, withdrew their commercials so as not to give the impression that they’re seeking to hawk their products and make money during the crisis. As a result, viewers have ended up repeatedly watching commercials...

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Mar 17, 2011

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Murakami Ryu writes from Tokyo about the local crisis response: Ten years ago I wrote a novel in which a middle-school student, delivering a speech before Parliament, says: “This country has everything. You can find whatever you want here. The only thing you can’t find is hope.” One might say the opposite today...