Western Film Silent Movie Card collection (via gmt+9)

After 96 years, a printing press closes in Brooklyn.

When The One comes down, and bulbs of sweat pop from Star Child's brow, and the bass thumpasaurus slaps its cosmic tail against a lighted dance floor, every boo-tay in the house meets its neighbor as hineys mash together in plush synchronicity.
The Cosmology of Funkadelic
Can you get to that?

Mid-century illustrator Roy Doty's Christmas Card archive

White House altered documents on 'Coalition of the Willing' (rawstory)
The White House altered documents regarding the nations involved in the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" that aided the US invasion of Iraq.

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor says he found that the White House had modified elements of its website dealing with the coalition and in some cases deleted key documents in the public record.

Japanese-American Animation Artists of the Golden Age
(cartoonbrew)

Lego Robot Rubik's Cube Solver.
Amazing

The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008
(alternet)

In the 20 years that we've published our annual list, we've covered corporate villains, scoundrels, criminals and miscreants. We've reported on some really bad stuff - from Exxon's Valdez spill to Union Carbide and Dow's effort to avoid responsibility for the Bhopal disaster; from oil companies coddling dictators (including Chevron and CNPC, both profiled this year) to a bank (Riggs) providing financial services for Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; from oil and auto companies threatening the future of the planet by blocking efforts to address climate change to duplicitous tobacco companies marketing cigarettes around the world by associating their product with images of freedom, sports, youthful energy and good health.

But we've never had a year like 2008.

Anatomy of a Meltdown (newyorker)

Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant Garde 1910-1917 (Getty Museum)
with pdf links to exhibit books.
(via gmt+9)

An in-depth study of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"

Cell Defender
I see the birthrate of suckers is still keeping pace.

"It's almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in high hat and tuxedo. It kind of makes you a little bit suspicious."
Big 3 Automakers show up to DC in private planes.

[Conspicuous consumption, outdoors-style] When a treehouse has a commercial wine-bar, doesn't it defeat the purpose of 'treehouse'? It's beautiful architecture and all, but this whole extreme treehouse movement deleted the idea of rusticity.

About a 97-year old botanical arts maestro (pingmag)

The Mostly True Story of Helvetica and the New York Subway System
Really interesting reading on design for public use.

Mr. Etch-A-Sketch

Sine Wave Speech. A cool auditory illusion (via metafilter)