[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Egregious Citations Issued to BP
- [FlowingData]
…as reported by the Center for Public Integrity, 97 percent of the most dangerous violations found by OSHA were on BP properties.
- Any Heat Source In A Pinch
- [There I Fixed It - Epic Kludge Photos]
- Snoop Dogg shot first! Star Wars' Cantina scene reimagined with some new additions…
- [io9]
You have to love this new Adidas ad, featuring Snoop Dogg, David Beckham, Daft Punk and Oasis' Noel Gallagher in the classic cantina scene. Mostly for Snoop Dogg's response to the classic "My friend doesn't like you" line.
- The historical beauty of the movie title card
- It's usually the first thing you see in a film — the title — and some filmmakers have elevated that moment to high-design art. And one enterprising lover of typography and cinema has created an online storehouse of the best.
- Happy Duckling Butts!
- [Cute Overload]
- Trained noses expected to sniff out oil-tainted seafood, but vast Gulf catch hard to monitor
- [Science News]
- OSHA Fronts for BP After Congressmen Press for Worker Safety
- [Firedoglake]
… why, just hours after the Congressmen sent their letter, did OSHA Administrator Michaels do a full 180 on BP’s commitment to worker safety?
On this blog, Dr. Kirk Murphy noted that as of Friday, Michaels will not require workers to use respirators – an OSHA decision eerily similar to one the agency made for 9/11 cleanup workers, a corollary that was referenced by Reps. Oberstar and Nadler, the latter of whose district included Ground Zero.
The Wall Street Journal, of all places, spoke with Michaels. Here’s some of what he said in his newfound appreciation of BP’s commitment to worker safety…
- OK, and now can we get one with the torn shirt? Thanks!
- [Culture Making]
…the photos I was seeing only told part of the story. I thought that these images were robbing people of their dignity, and I felt that the rest of the story should be told as well. Out of this came the idea for a photography project, which I am tentatively calling “Perspectives of Poverty”. I am taking two photos of the same person; one photo with the typical symbols of poverty (dejected look, ripped clothes, etc.), and another of this person looking their very finest, to show how an image can be carefully constructed to present the same person in very different ways. I want to bring to light some of the different assumptions we make about a person, especially when we see an image of “poverty” from rural Africa.
- Allowing Human Experimentation under the War Crimes Act
- [Firedoglake]
Physicians for Human Rights just released a report documenting what Jeff Kaye and more recently Jason Leopold have been discussing for years: America’s torturers were conducting a kind of human experimentation on the earliest detainees. PHR is calling on Attorney General Holder to investigate whether CIA’s medical personnel committed the war crime of human experimentation.
Most of the contents of the report will be familiar to readers of this blog. I find the following detail the most interesting new observation…
- Processing Typography
- [Typography Served]
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