1. “Picture Show: Nawlins” | GOOD Blog
A week after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in the summer of 2005, Danish photographer Casper Balslev visited the city to document the storm’s aftermath — not because he was on assignment, but because he felt it was necessary. The result is “Nawlins,” a collection of battered cityscapes that has become no less powerful, moving, or haunting with the passage of time.
2. “Stuever: Obama speech edits photo ‘thrilling, gratifying, and also terribly frightening’” by Jim Romenesko | Romenesko
If George W. Bush was “The Decider,” make Barack Obama “The Editor.” Romenesko points to a longer post that deconstructs a remarkable photo from the official White House Flickr stream: the current POTUS is seen reviewing a heavily marked transcript with his director of speechwriting, Jon Favreau.
3. “The Word of the Day: Anthropomorphism” by Butter Chicken | Food Court Lunch
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines anthropomorphism as a noun meaning “the attribution of human characteristics to a god, animal, or thing.” The good folks at Food Court Lunch plea for another word to specify forced examples of said attribution — such as the Snuggie™ For Dogs.
4. “Eating Well on Food Stamps Holds a Lens Up to Our Own Attitudes About Poverty” by Sharon Astyk | ScienceBlogs
The US Food Stamp program is often derided for encouraging “junk” diets and unhealthy eating habits among its users. There is, however, a growing movement of young unemployed who are purchasing high-quality ingredients with their stamps. Surprise: they’re being criticized, too.
5. “Will 90 be the new 40?” by Karl Bates-Duke | Futurity.org
Over the past 170 years, life expectancy has grown at a rate of six hours per day in countries with the longest average life spans. This means that most children born after the year 2000 will live to see their 100th birthday. What will be the social consequences, Bates-Duke asks, as more and more of us live past the century mark?
6. “Who wants to read some Afghan detainee documents?” by Janyce McGregor | Inside Politics
On Thursday morning, the Harper government tabled 2,628 pages of heavily redacted documents pertaining to Canada’s Afghan detainee scandal. The press and opposition have been scrutinizing them since then in an effort to find anything revelatory. Why let them have all the fun? Here, Inside Politics provides every black-markered page for your perusal. Happy hunting.
7. “Greenpeace Releases 20-Year History of Climate Denial Industry” by Jim Hoggan | De Smog Blog
This week, Greenpeace released a comprehensive report that accuses polluters of deliberately misleading the public for over two decades by creating and investing heavily in “the climate denial industry.” According to the report, companies like ExxonMobil have created anti-science, right-wing think tanks for the purpose of confusing lay-people and muddying up the climate debate with false information.
8. “Booby Trap” by Hanna Rosin | The XX Factor
British spy agencies are reporting that jihadists, on the heels of last December’s failed underwear bombing, are now attempting to outfit female suicide bombers with explosive breast implants that would be virtually impossible to detect. And for men? Boom-boom ass implants, naturally.
9. “Lost vs. Saul Bass: If Lost was made in the ’60s, here’s what the title sequence might look like” by Brad Frenette | The Ampersand
Saul Bass is a legend in design circles: he created AT&T’s “globe” logo and title sequences for classic films such as Hitchcock’s Psycho and North by Northwest. This week, a Spanish designer who calls himself Hexagonall paid tribute to the master by imagining what the title sequence for Lost would look like if Bass had designed it.
10. “The Coulter saga: The best response is to respond” by Rick Salutin | rabble.ca
What’s the best way to respond to fringe sensationalists like Ann Coulter? “Tell her to piss off, not shut up,” writes Salutin. All of us, he suggests, should follow the example of the young Muslim student who got in Coulter’s face in London, Ontario — when you dislike something, say so. Firmly.
(Photo by Casper Balslev)
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