| Bloggers of Michigan. (9/16/04, via micropersuasian) |
| Artbots: this weekend's run-of-the-mill robot talent show. (9/15/04, via sheri) |
 The dildoes of the ancients. (9/15/04, via morgan) |
| LugoLounge: a blog from new ordo friend Danny. Today Lugo shares what he learned on his summer vacation: "Why can’t more people see the benefits of the bike?" (9/15/04) |
 The artwork of Ken Howell, ordo's love slave. (9/13/04) |
| Ordo has more gmail invites. To get one, send a link to one of your recent online addictions to letters(at)ordomag.org. (9/13/04) |
| unmediated blog: "tracking the tools that decentralize the media." (9/13/04, via smart mobs) |
| Ordo friend Chris Saunders is blogging fashion in Stylezilla. (9/10/04) |
| Topic Magazine's food issue. (9/8/04, via invisible cowgirl) |
| John Cleese opens his website in his official Web site opening hat. (9/8/04, via grow a brain) |
| Almodovar: a few words and images about the director. Almodovar's new film, Bad Education, is due this fall. (9/7/04) |
 The William Blake Archive: illuminated works. (9/3/04) |
| Moon landing faked: conclusive evidence NASA put one over on the world. (9/2/04, via Mefi) |
 Eliot Porter's photographs. (9/01/04) |
| Spectropolis: a mobile media art event coming to lower Manhattan in October. (8/26/04, via Smart mobs) |
 Paintings by Heidi Taillefer. (8/26/04, via notes from somewhere bizarre) |
| Join the million billionaire march at the RNC in New York. (8/25/04, via pamela) |
 "...for I am just a doggy poo." The touching story of a melancholy load of crap. The teaser sort of says it all. (8/24/04, via mefi) |
| Eggplant Active Media, offering sliding scale development and design services to those who wish to change the world. (8/23/04, via seth godin) |
| The existential adventures of August & Helium Strindberg. (8/19/04) |
 Pink girls: "The pink girls sit around outside Gap (the shop) in Harajuku and eat, drink and wear pink." (8/19/04, via boingboing) |
| Zach's blog is different now. (8/19/04) |
 The Adventures of Action Item!: corporate jargon dynamo. (8/18/04, via seth godin) |
| Howard Rheingold, author of SmartMobs and patron of a school of thought, is interviewed on new economic forms: "There's been an assumption that since communism failed, capitalism is triumphant... But I think we're seeing hints... the technology of the Internet, reputation systems, online communities, mobile devices... These may make some new economic system possible." (8/18/04, via /.) |
 Thorsten Schimmel, gothic interiors in black and white. (8/15/04, also via growabrain) |
| Julia Child's kitchen at the Smithsonian. (8/15/04, via growabrain) |
| Templar studios' online presence: many tiered Flash. (8/11/04) |
 Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (artforms of nature). (8/10/04, via bruce sterling) |
| Office in a bucket: inflatable surroundings for your manifold needs. (8/10/04, via engadget) |
| The people's guide to the RNC.
(8/09/04) |
| The precinct: life in the fifth: an interactive feature from The New York Times.
(8/09/04) |
 A gallery of photographs by Cartier-Bresson, d. August 2004. (8/05/04) |
 You can't but thrill to the studied inspiration present in Kerri Smith's everyday objects in sketch and ink. (8/03/04) |
| Flash game a murder of scarecrows is beautiful, haunting and very addictive.
(7/30/04, via mefi) |
| Spamusement!: "Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines."
(7/26/04, via grow-a-brain) |
| What's the worst that could happen with corporate data integration? This Flash animation from the ACLU takes a pizza delivery order by way of example. (7/23/04, via Joi Ito) |
| Bill O'Reilly wants you to shut up. Link goes to a trailer for 'Outfoxed.' (7/23/04, via BoingBoing) |
 Paintings by Elena Sisto. (7/21/04, via cipango) |
| Break ups written in the style of wedding announcements. (7/15/04, via Micro Persuasion) |
 Magical birds and disembodied quarter notes: Collages by Kirk Fitzpatrick. (7/14/04, via life in the present) |
| Mike O'Connell, L.A. comedian. Good site. (7/13/04, via Zanna) |
| Anacrusis, "fiction for the attention-deprived." (7/12/04, via Mefi) |
 KLOC floor lounger, the rug with a hump. (7/9/04, via gizmodo) |
| The Corporation, a documentary film about today's dominant instituion, which has "displaced politicians as the new oligarchs of our system." (7/9/04, recommended by Ed Illades) |
 Musee Rodin. (7/8/04, via Mefi) |
| Sufjan Stevens' interactive map of Michigan. (7/6/04, via Amber) |
| Pencilmation. (6/30/04, via Mefi) |
 Babies can sign long before they can speak. These 49 animated clips depict signals that'll let your little one communicate while his or her vocal apparatus matures. (6/29/04) |
| Touch and temperature: art in the age of cybernetic totalism. A new show at bitforms gallery. (6/25/04) |
| Ordo has some Gmail invites to give away. First five to write us at gmail(at)ordomag.org get 'em. (6/23/04) |
 A gallery of nanoflowers. (6/22/04) |
| Seattle's Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opens today. (6/18/04) |
 Google image search: Fallopian. (6/17/04) |
| Lullabies from the axis of evil, on WNYC. (6/17/04) |
| The Polyphonic Spree, a Samarost-like interactive game promoting band of same name's album. (6/14/04, via Mefi) |
| The Farenheit 911 Trailer. (6/14/04, via metafilter) |
| Herman Hesse's "Life Story, Briefly Told" (PDF). "I was born toward the end of modern times, shortly before the return of the Middle Ages, with the sign of the Archer on the ascendant and Jupiter in favourable aspect." (6/11/04, via lii.org) |
 Sourcefruit juiceboxes look and feel like the fruit whose juice they contain. Note to commerce: kindly produce more ideas like this. (6/10/04, via gizmodo) |
| Though you've seen it: Bush/Zombie Reagan 2004 . (6/11/04, via boingboing) |
| Street artistj/marketing brain Shepard Fairey's Swindle magazine launches this month. (6/10/04, via boingboing) |
| The History of the Universe in Seven Snoozes, on Locus Novus. (6/09/04, via boingboing) |
| Sent: "America's first phonecam art show." (6/09/04) |
 Cesarean section: a brief history. (6/04/04) |
| Project ornithopter. (6/03/04) |
| A roster of Dickens characters, from Pip Havisham to Bob Cratchit. (6/02/04) |
| Ordo is on hiatus until June 2. (5/25/04) |
 The Buckminster Fuller Institute lands in Williamsburg. Open house tonight! (5/21/04) |
| Ordo friend Pamela Parker is now blogging digital media and haircuts at The-River.net. (5/18/04) |
| Painter Joe Coleman performs this Thursday at the Virgin megastore. (5/18/04, via rebecca) |
 Fainting goats. Yes, they're real. (5/14/04, via super hero) |
| Modern ruins. (5/13/04, via metafilter) |
 Periodical cicadas, a.k.a. "17-year locusts": flying, plant-sucking insects that only come around every decade and a half and mature all at once. (5/11/04, via lii.org) |
 "Cones" image searches: pine, traffic, geometric. (5/10/04) |
| Tiny robot walker made from DNA: "Scientists have created a microscopic walking robot using only the building blocks of life." (5/7/04) |
 The Yoruba people of Northwest Africa have the highest rate of twinning in the world, and a twin art sculptural tradition to match. Yoruba believe twins share a soul and have superhuman powers. (5/6/04) |
| Inspiring people trading cards, a "new discovery" list and other great things from Keri Smith . (5/6/04) |
 The Saint Anne parade during Mardi Gras, photos by Susannah Breslin. (5/5/04) |
| Bitkraft, stunning oldtimey Flash. (5/4/04, via metafilter) |
 High res scans of glittering dragonflies. (5/3/04, via lii.org) |
| Vending machines of Japan. (4/30/04, also via wish jar journal) |
| Sketched maps. (4/29/04, via wish jar journal) |
| Dress your babies smartly, for they shall lead the way. (4/28/04, via lii.org) |
 Carmen Lomas Garza's paintings. (4/27/04) |
| The fungus among us. (4/22/04, via lii.org) |
| bubblewrap, as oddly satisfying as the real thing. (4/20/04) |
| The Little Prince author/illustrator Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry, honored in stamps. Parts of Saint-Exupéry's plane, which crashed in the Mediterranean in 1944, were found last week. (4/19/04, via lii.org) |
| Grist magazine's Earth day meme-dissemination challenge: use "pollutocrat" in a letter to the editor. (4/16/04) |
| Monsterism: there's no other word for it. (4/15/04) |
| Superhero journal and Wish jar journal, blogging creative outlet. (4/14/04) |
 Ordo friend Dustin Yellin's recent paintings: pouring resin in layers to create images resembling luminous organisms. (4/13/04) |
| Building beds from living trees. (4/9/04, via boingboing) |
| Old guard online art trading: 20 things. (4/8/04, via rachel cardella) |
| For the device reliant: solar panels on bags. (4/8/04, via smart mobs) |
| Magic bike: "I am like the ice cream man, but with no music
and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream." (4/7/04, via alex goldman) |
 Image search: rust. (4/6/04) |
| Be an aeron chair volunteer. (4/5/04, via the morning news) |
| Ordo will be on hiatus for a week, starting right about... now. Occasional posting possible, but don't count on it, chump. (3/25/04) |
| Mohammed Bah Abba's pot-in-pot non-electrical refrigerator. (3/24/04, via hinterlands) |
 Librarian career romances. (3/23/04, via todd) |
| Ducky Mag, new issue. (3/22/04) |
| Cheap ass thrills: pioneering bloggy skaters. (3/22/04) |
| Two liars lying and a partridge in a pear tree. (3/17/04) |
| Artist and Ordo arch-nemesis Dustin Yellin blogs Cuba and Artaud on his new canvas: Forgortuary Remembruary. (3/16/04) |
 Someone named Viola, among penguins. (3/12/04, via superhero journal) |
| Ursula Le Guin fields reader questions in a Q&A on Guardian Unlimited. (3/12/04, via metafilter) |
| Filthy-minded noodle marketing. (3/12/04) |
| Satan's Laundromat: dedicated to quixotic signage and urban decrepitude. (3/10/04) |
 Image search: two days. (3/9/04) |
| North Brooklynites: The Williamsburg CSA will soon begin sign-ups. Buy your share of farmer Mike's 2004 vegetable harvest, and cut out the middleman. Confused? Learn more about CSA in NYC or attend the mini-conference. (3/8/04, via sheri) |
| An MP3 interview with San Francisco's Man with the Sign, conducted and posted by Ordo friend Ethan. MWTS patrols San Francisco's financial district, spreading the gospel about the "130-galaxies-Bill-Clinton-slanderous-murder-cases" and similar outrages. (3/8/04) |
 Panoramic sugar eggs, brought to you by the Confectionary Artists Guild of Orlando. (3/5/04, via lii.org) |
| WFMU's great and absurd annual fundraising marathon is coming. It's the only radio moneygrab that's any fun to listen to. All broadcasts are streamed and archived. (3/4/04) |
| 300 years of St. Petersburg through Western eyes. (3/4/04, via lii.org) |
| Never mind gay marriage; God hates shrimp! (3/03/04, via metafilter) |
| Ordo friends Dirty Rainbow play Black Betty on 3/2. Supreme guitarismo! (2/27/04) |
| "My, My American Bukkake, Too," a new comic by Susannah Breslin. (2/26/04) |
| Communiculture, a slightly stupid avatar playground. (2/20/04) |
 J.L. Hudson, Victory Seeds, Seed Savers Exchange and Seed Savers Network: seed houses and networks preserving heirloom vegetables, herbs, flowers, trees, weeds and what-all. Oxheart carrot pictured. (2/25/04) |
 Marsupial image searches: koala, kangaroo, sugarglider, opossum, tasmanian devil. (2/24/04) |
| Space Invaders: the big box juggernauts. a Flash essay. (2/23/04, via metafilter) |
| It's What's For Dinner, a scary 2002 USDA memo to beef inspectors. (2/23/04, via the Invisible Cowgirl) |
| Field, a garden of lights demonstrating electrical emanations from power lines. By Richard Box; see archives for other projects. (2/23/04, via metafilter) |
 Sculptures by Chad Oakenfeld: drawing room, rare earth magnets facing off in mid-air, and the inexplicable stabbing machine. (2/19/04) |
| Decent Quality Political Blogs. (2/19/04) |
 Mixed media child portraiture by Loretta Luxx. See her work in an upcoming exhibition at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. (2/18/04, via superhero journal) |
| Bird songs of the Yucatan Peninsula. (2/17/04, via lii.org) |
 halos, glories, coronas, fogbows, sundogs and numerous other atmospheric optics. (2/12/04, via lii.org) |
| SF writer Bruce Sterling blogs Dutch accessories. Sterling's new journaling effort for Wired is far better than his old one for Infinite Matrix. (2/11/04) |
 Who was Alexander the Great? Why all the conquering? Was he gay? Did he die of poison or typhoid fever? Was he embalmed in honey, buried, cremated, or all of the above? (2/10/04) |
| The New Farm, innovative agriculture via The Rodale Institute. (2/9/04) |
| Ordo friends Pamela and Michael Caird have launched Tinker Knitwear, manufacturing and selling cashmere winter garb. (2/9/04) |
| Group show Gen.R.8 opens tonight at Gigantic Artspace, downtown NYC. A robot band plus works by Andrea Polli, Lee Ranaldo and others. (2/6/04) |
 Google
image search: herring. (2/6/04) |
| An interactive tour of Detroit's Heidelberg Project, an artscape filling two formerly broken down blocks. (2/5/04) |
 Fast Film, created by Virgil Widrich. 300 feature films, 65,000 photocopies, one 14 minute animation. (2/4/04, via birgit rathsmann) |
| Posters by Jason Munn and Liz Harris. Both are featured in Oakland's now up Show Print show. (2/3/04, via laurenn mccubbin and fwd'ed by the invisible cowgirl) |
| The Instant Muse Story Starter: satisfyingly incongruous PoMo storylines in an instant. (2/3/04, via occupancy) |
 Susanna Conaway's art is at once obscene and prudish; improvised and crafted. The latest fruits of her labors are on display in a Delaware show, "In progress", along with works by Louis Flanigan and Ted Stanke. (2/2/04, "cock cozy" pictured) |
| What can't vinegar do? (1/30/04, via lii.org) |
 The corkscrew museum! (1/29/04, via the Invisible Cowgirl) |
| "The First Time She Died While Having Sex," a story by Susannah Breslin. (1/29/04) |
| Who could tire of Soviet posters? If not you, have some more. Four periods: bolshevik, new economic policy, five year plan and cold war. (1/29/04) |
| Martha's Big Day, an illustrated, Martha-style breakdown of Martha's Enron-style day in court. (1/28/04) |
| The deadly risk of buying stuff, part three (product recalls for January): flimsy back braces for tree climbers, bacteria-filled clay, and ominous flagpoles. (1/28/04) |
| Sick of the "9/11" meme? Try a new date: 2/15/2003, an international day of protest against war. (1/27/04) |
 Google
image search: bluebird. (1/26/04) |
| A daily dose of detritus. (1/25/04, via MetaFilter) |
| More dishwasher cooking. (1/22/04, via lii.org) |
| 'fess up! (1/21/04, via MetaFilter.) |
 Join the movement to save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. (1/20/04, via Geisha asobi blog. Passed on by the Invisible Cowgirl.) |
| Xeni Jardin interviews Susannah Breslin, chronicler and poet laureate of the porn industry and the author of "You're a Bad Man Aren't You?"(1/20/04) |
| Mint shopping, goddamn it! (1/16/04, via Isac Zal Sprachman.) |
| 1,300 Deities, browsable by pantheon. (1/16/04, via lii.org) |
| Recipe: dishwasher-poached salmon with cilantro Sauce. (1/15/04, via lii.org) |
| The most beautiful periodic table displays in the world. (1/15/04, via Todd's Occupancy blog.) |
 The art of Ray Caesar. (1/13/04, via cipango.) |
| "Dtroit," at the gigantic artspace downtown. Join other overexposed, overworked New Yorkers as they ogle and envy the Motor city's fully underway reversion to nature. (1/12/04) |
| Landed Jersey girls (1/12/04) |
| Psychopathic Flash design: Hans Reichel, inventor of the mysterious Daxophone. (1/9/04, via Isac Sprachman.) |
 Google
image search: chest x-ray. (1/8/04) |
| Bridge magazine's shoebox series. Full of delights, though unfortunately quite pricey. (1/7/04) |
 The Dentsu Advertising Museum, featuring Nipponese marketing from the Edo (1603) through Taisho (1926) periods. (1/6/04, via Metafilter)
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| Trail of the Hellhound, chronicling blues in the lower Mississippi valley. (1/5/04, via lii.org) |
| Ordo's holiday '03 product recall round-up: exploding manoras, collapsing rocking chairs, gag-in-the-box toys, and outdoor extension cords that'll shock grandpa when he plugs in the plastic reindeer. |
| That's some cactus. |
 4,000
years of miniature books: "Miniature books, most of
which are less than three inches tall and some of which are
smaller than a penny, have delighted readers for centuries."
(via lii.org)
|
| Food radicalism in education, farming & consumption: Berkeley's Edible Schoolyard, Californians for GE-free agriculture, the slow food movement, and of course, the Meatrix. |
| The upcoming book "Kings & Queens: Queers at the Prom," by David Boyer, depicts the prom experiences of gay, bisexual and transgender teenagers. The book's not out yet, but you can read the companion site's repository of queer prom stories, dating from 1920 to the present. |
 Celestial
image searches: the
moon, io,
halley's
comet, the
sun and earth. |
| A new blog in the family: Ordo friend Todd Everett's Beinginspace.org. |
| Behold the Ordo Rug. Ellen McAlister writes, "alright. I designed a rug and named it after your zine. well, okay, it's not really a tribute. but the name was on my desktop and i think it hit the mark of contrived and organic." |
| Moisture is a collaboration creating location-sensitive structures for the collection, retention and use of water in the Mojave Desert. |
| Product recalls this week: golf/hunting carts that will crash you in the lake, pants
in which you'll be dragged to death, cloth
santas with dangerous noses, crazy
bounce balls that will lodge in your baby's gullet, and
TV
stands that will drop the TV on your pet guinea pig. |
Google image searches: trash, garbage, junk, waste, debris, detritus
and refuse. |
| Do you even know where the sepal, ovaries and stamen are? |
| Streamline your consumption, an eloquent treatise from Grist magazine. (via Metafilter) |
| Chickenman fans: buy all 273 episodes on CD. (via This American Life's recent "Poultry Slam" episode) |
| Social hygiene posters from 1910 to 1960, including "Don't demand purity unless you offer it" and "Smash the prostitution racket" (right). |
| Google image search: snail |
| What to do with a post-industrial wasteland. Exhibit 1: Adamah, Detroit's network of urban gardens. Exhibit 2: The greening of Detroit. Exhibit 3: urban ag, a primer. |
 Remember
those two acres of wheat in lower manhattan? I sure
don't. |
| The elements, animated in Flash. |
| Your assignment: read a letter a day from the archives of ghost site Open Letters (born June '00, died January '01), a repository of fine epistolary literature. |
 Artist
Ben Kinmont's collected projects, including "It's
easier to talk about art while washing dishes" and "Beautiful,
Newlyn" (right). |
| Recommended TV: Close to the Bone: Surgeons & Chefs. "Bringing together two professions that have more in common than most people realize." (via Rebecca Lieb) |
| Behold the art of Indole Ring, including the many permutations of kitten wayfarer Nohands and these other images. (via Smith) |
| Google image search: eruption |
 Search
the land use database, the Center
for Land Use Interpretation's index of notable sites in
the U.S. Maya
Lin's Wave Field at right. |
| "5/hour," about one rocker's near-sex experience, a story from Philly's great Ducky Magazine. (via the invisible cowgirl) |
| Veterans Day lesson: "Over the years... the bones of [revolutionary war] POWs would wash up along the shores of Brooklyn." |
 For
oldtimers: years after her 15 minutes ended, the lunch
lady is still doing her gospel-laced, "mm-mm mashed-potatoes"
voicemail routine (at 510-351-7654). |
| 15th century publisher William Caxton's editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. |
| Geek art playground "1010=artificial paradises" exposes code as environment and environment as code. (via rhizome) |
 The
Kungfu monks of America. Companion site to a PBS film
about fighting Shaolin monks who have migrated West, to practice
and teach their brand of Chinese boxing in the U.S., where
it damn well belongs. (via lii.org) |
| Google image search: thimble |
| 200 bjorks, one website. |
 The
never-boring combination of plant growth and time-lapse
photography. (via boing
boing) |
| Patent watch: user-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks. Be sure to view the accompanying illustration. (via Ryan Naraine) |
 You've
endured the films. You've bumbled around the Guggenheim show;
now have a gander at the Cremaster website. (via
rhizome) |
| A man, a plan, a canal. Erie! |
| Bucky Fuller's dymaxian world map, depicting Earth's land masses as one island in one ocean. |
| The kama sutra animated. |
 The
Hubble heritage project: fabulous outer space. (via
metafilter) |
| Recommended bands with two-word names: hockey island, oakley hall, flat black. |
| Google image search: bearded lady. |
| The folks at allrecordlabels.com have indexed over nine thousand record labels. |
 ASCII
Rock: geek tributes to yester-century's towering punk
and hard rock bands. Judas Priest at right. (via rhizome) |
| Samarost: a distractive puzzle in Flash |
| Music collective psychic revolution is now touring the U.S.: 14 people, 9 bands, and one 1971 GMC charter bus converted to run on vegetable oil. |
| Delft Blue, Hugo Kaagman's silly yet lovely web art. (via rhizome) |
 Treasures
of the NOAA Photo Library. Images from rare and unusual books
that reside within the NOAA Central Library. |
Schizophrenic Chicago rocker Wesley Willis really whupped the donkey's ass.
He will be missed. |
| The surviving 25 paintings and eight drawings created by Hieronymous Bosch, an interactive gallery. |
 Where
else but the infrared zoo can one observe the heat
radiated by animals in captivity? (via lii.org) |
| This is a magazine. (via rhizome) |
| Tour the fabulous ruins of Detroit |
| 30 radio spots in 60 minutes (a "This American Life" archive, second item on list) |
 It's
Japanese, of course: weinergami, the fine art of cutting
and folding weiners into animals and dioramas. (via
molly o'meara) |
| The musical theater of H.P. Lovecraft: A Shoggoth on the Roof (via MetaFilter) |
| Video game theme song covers by the minibosses (via chris saunders) |
 Antique
wax mannequins.
(via boing boing) |
| Hard-boiled San Francisco: a bibliography of crime fiction set in the Bay area |
| Google image search: "What a fool sees" |
| Brooklyn's storefront houses of worship (via Sharpeworld) |
 science
videos: the ignition of ice bombs, ferrofluid, and benzene |
| A man eats tea in zero G |
| "If a family and a cat become fortunate, you will take a commemorative photo! Therefore, please photo your cat lovelily with much trouble." |
 photos
by dylan chatain("white billboards" at right) |
| True porn clerk stories (via sheri) |
| what the Khan's did: the wars under genghis, the arts under kublai, and all of Asia under the footsteps of their venetian cartographer, marco polo |
| Play the NYC budget game: cut spending, raise taxes, then compare your plan to bloomberg's |
| Tackle your dilemmas with the oblique strategies, curated by brian eno and peter schmidt |
 cowboy
photographer erwin e. smith |
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