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The Linkdumpiest

An eye-opening article about SUVs by Malcolm Gladwell from a year ago. Be prepared to hate them more.

Those folk-tronicists (sorry), the Books, have a nice little site full of surprises.

Gallery of straight-edge/vegan tattoos.

The Bostonist is a Gothamist spinoff.

My friend Angelina Gualdoni is a pretty good painter.

Night landscapes by Frank van der Salm.

There is a hobby called "Reborn Dolls". It is creepy.

The top 100 gadgets of all-time.

Ricky Jay has a website. I highly suggest reading the New Yorker profile in the archive section.

An interview with David Foster Wallace.

Paul Shambroom had a show in Chicago a year or two ago. I like the "Meetings" images.

Mapping Sitting.

Deitch Projects finally has a site and it's pretty great, although I'd suggest switching off the music almost immediately.

Sad Ghost Salt & Pepper Shakers by Marcel Dzama plus other stuff.

?uestlove from the Roots & his sister show off his ginormous record collection.

Photos by Wang Qinsong. Do not be dissuaded by the front page.

Photos by Mitch Epstein.

Spend some time with Hamburger Eye's stable of snapshooters, the Blackhole.

I wish there was more work at Ryan McGinley's site.

Aside from his photographs, I appreciate the handmade-ness of Stephen Gill's site. Mr. Gill had a book called Field Studies published last year sometime.

Photos by Hellen van Meene.

Photos by John Divola. I'm particularly infatuated with the Isolated Houses series in the "1990's" section.

Scene From My Life group photoblog. (And yes I still hate the word "blog").

More than 1000 Blue Note covers. Includes more than a few crappy ones, too.

Are you in Minneapolis? New work by Alec Soth here. Also on the internet.

Listen to Dungen.

Ivan Brunetti has a Doodle-a-Day weblog.

Yale graphic design MFAs have a website. It's design-y.

Engineers devise invisibility shield.

Listen to Death From Above 1979.

A.C. Dickson - eBay PowerSeller.

Drawings by miniminiaturemouse.

Maybe you already know but Superman is a Dick.

My friend Nick Butcher has some work in the the 2nd issue of the webmagazine Blir.

When people tell him that music today sucks, Sasha Frere-Jones says the following,
"That’s like going to the bodega on the corner and being like, ‘They don’t make milk anymore.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because they’re all out of milk.’ Dude, just go to a different bodega. There’s still milk in the world.”
The rest of the interview is here.

A photoblog (still hate it) by Heather Champ.

Drawings & other stuff by Nigel Peake.

Spring photo show preview by Vince Aletti. I am 100% excited for 100% of these shows.

And in related news, Nicole Kidman to star in a Diane Arbus movie? Robert Downey Jr. plays Allan Arbus?

Paintings by Chad Robertson. Presented by Jason Lee.

Flip through a collection of photos from the Chicago Sun-Times spanning the last 60 years. Introduction by Robert Ebert.

Terry Gross interviewed the RZA on Fresh Air the other day. You can listen to it here.

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