How to make wine
Wine makers, you’re doing a great job. I think I’ll just keep letting you do what you do best. Don’t let me get in your way or take your job.
How to Make Wine – an illustrated guide by the one and only Wendy MacNaughton.
Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket
Adam Green: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins, Pickpocket
Wow. Just wow. The opening anecdote is great, and it just gets more interesting.
Seeing Art
Here’s what you do. Click the Wikipaintings random link over and over. In fact, open 20 new tabs in the background. Now you’ve generated your own little art gallery.
Take some time to explore through the paintings. Click through to the artist page to learn more about the personalities behind the canvas. Click the style link to learn more about the style and find more paintings of that era and style.
Wiki paintings goal is to create the most “high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art.”
We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art —- from cave artworks to the new talents of today.
Visiting art museums isn’t the only way to experience your artistic heritage.
A short history of the death of culture
A short history of the death of culture
Culture is always dying, always being reborn new and better/worse/different.
China’s toxic sky makes for a whole industry of clever protective masks.
What a wonderful idea: Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital brightens the day of their little patients by having window washers dress up as Superheroes. I can just imagine the smiles on those little faces when they suddenly see Superman appear at their window 🙂
Ideology, Not Competence
James Taranto:
“I am not one of those who believe we should moderate, equivocate or otherwise abandon our principles,” [Bobby] Jindal said, courageously courting the wrath of moderators, equivocators and abandoners. He urged fellow Republicans to “focus on real people outside of Washington”—and at the NRI summit he said it in Washington, to a crowd that included many unreal people. “We have to stop dumbing down our ideas and stop reducing everything to mindless slogans and tag lines for 30-second ads.” Woo-hoo! Down with mindless slogans!
Thank you James Taranto for making it fun to read about politics.