Shooting the Street Corner

By David W. Boles on January 6, 2009 9:58 AM | 2 Comments
Richard Howe has taken on an interesting art project:  Shoot images of various Manhattan street corners in New York City.  Here's one shot of "Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox / Sixth) from 111th Street to 147th Street."

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The Incestuous Replication Meme

By David W. Boles on January 2, 2009 9:24 AM | 6 Comments
The internet as we know it will die a slow and elongated death as it loses its niches and every bit of information becomes merely incestuous replications of a single, original, truth:  Copying is easier than Creating.

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Designer Tats

By David W. Boles on December 27, 2008 3:53 PM | 4 Comments
I don't understand tattoos.  I really do not understand designer tattoos.  What are we trying to remember? 

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Internet Hitler

By David W. Boles on December 22, 2008 1:47 PM | 6 Comments
Could the Internet have stopped Hitler?  If we all blogged about the Beer Hall Putsch -- or if we revealed the precision of the train schedules and the suspicious smoke swirling from the Treblinka ovens -- could we have stopped the killing of the Jews before the ghosts reached tragic proportions?  Nobel prizewinner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio believes it possible:

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Test Match Dedication to Mumbai

By Kathakali Chatterjee on December 18, 2008 12:15 PM | 6 Comments

India bounced back from the terror attack in Mumbai with a heroic six-wicket victory over England in the last cricket test match and the win was dedicated to the Mumbai victims. According to Sachin Tendulkar, whose glorious 41st Test century led the team to the terrific success, told:

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Barack Sarkozy

By David W. Boles on December 16, 2008 10:27 AM | 6 Comments
Is Nicholas Sarkozy ripping off our beloved Obama brand?

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Jennifer Aniston's Slutty Nudie Layout

By David W. Boles on December 13, 2008 1:42 PM | 6 Comments
Jennifer Aniston has always had the same problem as Sarah Jessica Parker and Amanda Beard:  Great body, unfortunate face.  Now, as Aniston faces 40 -- and as her face falls even further -- she strips for GQ magazine to reveal her naught bits for profit and publicity. 

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How a Rumor Mill Grinds the Truth

By David W. Boles on December 6, 2008 2:31 PM | 4 Comments
How do Rumor Mills get started?  How does that vicious machine take the truth and re-grind it into false consumption by the masses?

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Dubya: How to Ruin an Initial

By David W. Boles on December 5, 2008 12:19 PM | 2 Comments
For most of my life I was known as "David Boles" or just "Boles" -- because I would never answer to my first name alone because almost everyone I knew in school was also named "David."  A few years ago, I decided to add my middle initial to separate myself from at least 13 other David Boles people in the world -- and the "David W. Boles" was born.

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The World Trade Center Falling on Your Head Meme

By David W. Boles on December 4, 2008 5:26 PM | 6 Comments
The sculpture you see below, believe it or not, was created to honor those that died in the World Trade Center airplane bombing on September 11, 2001.  The fact that many people leapt out of the burning buildings to escape the fire in the sky to quickly find their deaths on the ground below was lost on the artist.

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