by | May 16, 2009 | Culture Music Art
by | May 16, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from the LA Times Torture devices seeking righteous buyer Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times Iron masks are among the items in a collection of torture devices that is up for auction. The Tongue Tearer and other terrifying contraptions from the 16th century land...
by | May 15, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED Pentagon Preps Soldier Telepathy Push By Katie Drummond Forget the battlefield radios, the combat PDAs or even infantry hand signals. When the soldiers of the future want to communicate, they’ll read each other’s minds. At least, that’s the...
by | May 12, 2009 | Culture Music Art
from The New Bankrupt Times QUOTATION OF THE DAY “Banking should not be exciting. If banking is exciting there is something wrong with it.” CLAY EWING, president of German American Bancorp., a community bank in Jasper,...
by | May 11, 2009 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art
from SANS ARTIFICE TARRED & FEATHERED By Sans TAR is not a fashion magazine – its editor, Evan Schindler will tell you as much. Sure a few fashion personalities make special guest appearances and there is a smattering of editorial content but ultimately these are...
by | May 11, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn’t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it’s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the...