new york cant figure out its water bills, charges people 6 figures, some people havent paid in years, the usual octopode clusterfuck of private capital and public resources that mark urbanity


The Narwahl Avenger

Lawmakers in Nigeria are debating a bill that would ban same-sex marriage and any form of association among gays, even sharing a meal at a restaurant.
Story here including context, and history.

soy makes you gay

instructions on how to hang photos on clotheslines, maybe for hulberts

good feature on Jay Baker, the punk preacher from LA--aside from thsi being no different then the hippie preachers in LA during the 70s, i worry that the novelty will make people avoid lookign hard at theology, and how a conserative in tatoos and piercings is still conserative (one is reminded of the recent problems Mars Hill has had with misogyny and calvinism, in Seattle)

Unit E at a prison outside Newton Illinois, provided single bedrooms, porcelian toilets, doorknobs, and comfort beyond most american prisoners it was only available to christians. a couple of interestnig things about this, most peoplein the prision thought that this was so problematic, and refused to particpiate, and it wasnt good behaviour or religious virtue, muslims. though common, were excluded. a lawsuit just stopped them.

great junk robots, made by brooklyn sculptors


one of my favourite Champion studio images

a bunch of brilliant examples of various epherema.


Rat Skeleton, Standfor Photonics

cute little tool that makes photos like 80s warhols.

SEmco organizes itself via anarchsit, non herichal principles, and makes 160m a year.

Stephen Lahey illustrates the Cadaver Synod, in a suitably creepy way.