Spy On Your Dog

by | Oct 28, 2009 | Weirdness

from ThinkGeek It comes in peace. Your friends at Skynet bring you the Rovio! Rovio is a robotic webcam with microphone and speaker for 2-way audio. This wi-fi connected bad little bot will stream video and audio to your favorite web-enabled browser anywhere in the...

Throwdown At The Bee

by | Oct 27, 2009 | Literary News

from The Wall Street Journal A Literary Night Out: Spelling Bee Humiliation and Partying With PEN By Steven Kurutz The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [CLMP] was holding its annual spelling bee at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio. Since 1967,  the CLMP has...

Britain’s Most Violent Prisoner Goes To The Matte

by | Oct 27, 2009 | Culture Music Art

from The New York Times Looking at an Inmate, Seeing an Artist By DENNIS LIM CHARLIE BRONSON, born Michael Peterson, is a British career criminal who has spent 35 of his 57 years behind bars. A former bare-knuckle boxer, he received a seven-year prison term in 1974...

Angels Of Anarchy

by | Oct 27, 2009 | Culture Music Art

from Prospect Magazine Still crazy after all these years HERMIONE EYRE The first major international exhibition of surrealist art by women in more than 60 years opens in Manchester. It was worth the wait Above: Dora Maar, Sans Titre, 1934, photomontage–a woman famous...