Thursday, August 14, 2008

Some Shorts Are Best Left In the Closet


Sartorialist asks that we consider silk shorts, I say: let's not.
What kind of text could this be? And how could one 'gender' them?
graph per sartorialist

Beautiful City Photos


The past few years I've developed an active interest in urban photography. Photographs that especially tackle my fancy are those that document various things Americana from the '50's and '60's. Hence, I found the following collection absolutely breath-taking. See them in full here.
But a favorite would have to be Chicago's lake view:
Hat tip to MR for the pointer. Via the Atlantic
graph per cushman photography

Things Los Angeles


There are many gripping things about Los Angeles. For instance, a favorite activity when there is going to the Beans and Brews on Sunset and checking out the clientele trying to guess who's 'from' LA and who's visiting. But then again, is anyone from LA, really.
A thing to do in LA would have to be a visit to Canter's Deli. It's a fantastic place to dine in and it doesn't seem to suffer from the 'I-have-to-be-cool-and-'in' thing. Canter's Deli can simply rely on history when it comes to asserting its cool. The deli is denuded of all pretension and the decor is something every LA visitor has to experience. Plus, the culinary experience is bound to leave one satisfied.
It always gives me a sense of familiarity and I fully recommend it to all those who self define as LA-natives as well as visitors.
Check the deli out here.
graph per canter's deli

Religion and Health

Via MR.
"SOME people, notably Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, regard religion as a disease. It spreads, they suggest, like a virus, except that the “viruses” are similar to those infecting computers—bits of cultural software that take over the hardware of the brain and make it do irrational things.

Corey Fincher, of the University of New Mexico, has a different hypothesis for the origin of religious diversity. He thinks not that religions are like disease but that they are responses to disease—or, rather, to the threat of disease. If he is right, then people who believe that their religion protects them from harm may be correct, although the protection is of a different sort from the supernatural one they perceive."
Read full article here.

A Penny for Your Car?


Just read this over at BBC.
"An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque.
James Jones, 70, produced 16 coffee cans full of coins to buy his new Chevrolet Silverado in Cincinnati and staff spent 90 minutes counting it."
Read more here.
graph per bbc