Kevin Ryan in Tokyo

Category: culture

  • Save yourself from shit

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    I really enjoy large non-fiction books about a single simple subjects. Salt, for example. Or networks. Or candy. Now one has come out about sewage. Rose George is an investigative journalist. I’ve got this one on order.

    The story of civilization has been the story of separating you from your waste. British investigative journalist Rose George’s stunning—and nauseating—new book opens by explaining that a single gram of feces can contain “ten million viruses, one million bacteria, one thousand parasite cysts, and one hundred worm eggs.” Accidentally ingesting this cocktail causes 80 percent of all the sickness on earth.

  • Wassup?

    You remember the old Wassup commercials by Annheiser-Busch for Budweiser beer, right?

    Now you can see an updated version for our times, with a nice twist at the end.

  • Priorities

    This is a short clip about beer, and friends, and women. Guess which one gets the highest priority?

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights in new format

    On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears at the United Nations site. Now you can see it in a new format that brings out the ideas more clearly.

    Get more information at the Human Rights Action Center.

  • Artistry on a computer

    Yoko, are you listening?

    Mark over on BoingBoing points us to Bob Staake’s video of creating a picture using very old software. It is the best illustration I have seen in a long time. Design is in the mind, not on the screen.