http://anthropomorphy.org/ conversated and perpetrated by David Ham. en-us Copyright 2009 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:11:23 -0600 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:11:27 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss My name is David Ham, and this is the combined feed for content available through my blog at http://anthropomorphy.org. You can also see my portfolio site, with contact information and examples of my work, at http://davidham.com. Thanks for reading this message. And he KILLS. He's funny and earnest and natural, and, refreshingly, he demolishes all the counter-arguments to the stimulus package that we've been hearing from the GOP on what Obama calls "the cable chatter." I wish he'd talk to America... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2009/02/president-obama-addresses-the-house-demo.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2009/02/president-obama-addresses-the-house-demo.php Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:11:23 -0600 BB guest blogger Charles Platt got a job at Walmart, and his experience was quite different from Barbara Ehrenreich's: The job was as dull as I expected, but I was stunned to discover how benign the workplace turned out to... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2009/02/life-at-walmart-boing-boing.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2009/02/life-at-walmart-boing-boing.php Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:26:56 -0600 A man killed two people at a Tennessee church this weekend, using a shotgun hidden in a guitar case. The gunman had left a four page letter at his home, describing his frustration at not being able to get a... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/heroism-amid-tragedy.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/heroism-amid-tragedy.php Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:52:26 -0600 The world writes open letter to McCain: Pointing to polls that show Obama leading McCain 94 percent to 6 percent everywhere on the inhabited globe except the United States, where most polls give Obama a narrow one- to three-point lead,... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/surrender-dorothy.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/surrender-dorothy.php Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:11:52 -0600 Via Coudal on this morning's tweets. We had a bunch of refrigerator magnets from this cereal when I was a kid but I never knew what they were. We certainly never got any cereal as glamorous as this; cinnamon Life... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/freakies-cereal-commercial.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/freakies-cereal-commercial.php Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:41:50 -0600 OK, so John Gruber posts this hilarious screenshot to Flickr of someone's new iPhone app, which provoked a storm of snarky comments, which provoked this lengthy response from the company's CEO, which prompted this thoughtful essay from Ryan Singer at... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/the-work-not-the-person.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/the-work-not-the-person.php Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:16:42 -0600 Wow, wicked cool--Shaun Inman's new Shortwave lets you search popular sites from your browser or iPhone, without having to first navigate to that site. Click the Shortwave bookmark, enter a keyword and your search term ("g sasquatch" will google "sasquatch"... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/shortwave.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/shortwave.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:22:26 -0600 The Guardian gives Jesse Helms' life the full airing it deserves, in a treatment we are unlikely to see imitated in the States. He became one of the most powerful and baleful influences on American foreign policy, repeatedly preventing his... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/jesse-helms-obit-in-the-guardian.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/jesse-helms-obit-in-the-guardian.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:44:27 -0600 Frank Rich on Wall-E: Indeed, sitting among rapt children mostly under 12, I felt as if I'd stepped through a looking glass. This movie seemed more realistically in touch with what troubles America this year than either the substance or... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/walle-and-the-4th-of-july.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/walle-and-the-4th-of-july.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:45:47 -0600 Having written a piece for Slate that drew distinctions between "torture" and "extreme interrogation", and having gotten a lot of flak for it, Christopher Hitchens agreed to submit to waterboarding. The title of his piece about the experience for Vanity... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/christopher-hitchens-submits-to-waterboa.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/07/christopher-hitchens-submits-to-waterboa.php Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:05:36 -0600 This week, some Republican Senators reintroduced the Federal Marriage Amendment, which, of course, "protects" the institution by making it illegal for gay couples to marry. But check out who's sponsoring it: But the funny part is looking over the list... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/how-safe-marriage-must-feel-with-guardia.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/how-safe-marriage-must-feel-with-guardia.php Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:49:26 -0600 Boris Johnson, recently elected mayor of London, describes his impending prosecution for war crimes in Iraq. Is it Bush or Rumsfeld or Cheney? Have they found a member of the American administration to take the rap for the disgusting scenes... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/finally-war-crimes-prosecutions-for-iraq.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/finally-war-crimes-prosecutions-for-iraq.php Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:39:12 -0600 Gruber posits--correctly, I think--that the big story of today's iPhone 3G launch is the iPhone/iPod Touch platform. But bigger than this, I think, is that Apple is getting better and better at presenting everything they make as part of a... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/brand-new-worlds-to-conquer.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/06/brand-new-worlds-to-conquer.php Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:03:52 -0600 http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thorazsenile.htmlfunny adanthropomorphyMon, 26 May 2008 06:24:41 PDThttp://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/thorazsenile.htmlThrow in a martini and I'll put my cane down. Via MeFi.... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/05/tom-waits-press-conference.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/05/tom-waits-press-conference.php Thu, 08 May 2008 08:44:14 -0600 http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/07/some-china-firms-out.htmlirony china outsourcinganthropomorphyThu, 08 May 2008 07:35:16 PDThttp://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/07/some-china-firms-out.htmlFrom the Bitter Irony dept. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/curator-euthanizes-l.htmlfuture weird stemcell artanthropomorphyThu, 08 May 2008 07:29:00 PDThttp://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/08/curator-euthanizes-l.htmlor, How To Tell If You're Living In The Future, part 48. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/279415337/coffin-sofas-boing-b.htmlcreepy coffin sofaanthropomorphyMon, 28 Apr 2008 07:24:56 PDThttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/279415337/coffin-sofas-boing-b.htmlummm...creepy. Last night, biologist PZ Myers tried to attend a screening of Expelled, a creationism propaganda film. Myers and Richard Dawkins appear in the film, and both have criticized it, saying they were duped into appearing in the film and were... http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/03/the-one-that-got-away.php http://anthropomorphy.org/archives/2008/03/the-one-that-got-away.php Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:20:20 -0600 http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/eiffel_tower_extension_9294.aspparis eiffeltower architectureanthropomorphyThu, 20 Mar 2008 12:06:12 PDThttp://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/eiffel_tower_extension_9294.aspTemporary addition to the Eiffel Tower for its 120th anniversary. Gorgeous but I think I'd be too freaked to go out on it. http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/biker.meeting/index.html?eref=rss_topstoriesnews funny stupidanthropomorphyThu, 28 Feb 2008 11:55:25 PSThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/02/28/biker.meeting/index.html?eref=rss_topstories...a convention of Aussie bikers. Zany antics ensue! http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-022008-sexed,1,7329769.story?track=rssnews funnyanthropomorphyWed, 20 Feb 2008 11:20:34 PSThttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-022008-sexed,1,7329769.story?track=rssI was about ten paragraphs into this story before I realized there was no actual violence. I was expecting--nay, hoping for--some kind of Jerry Springeresque episode of two kids whacking each other with condom-wrapped bananas. http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/barackobama funny politicsanthropomorphyThu, 14 Feb 2008 11:44:05 PSThttp://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/Really quite a lot of nice things, actually; I'd forgotten! http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/dark_knight_trailer_in_le.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890movies lego batmananthropomorphyFri, 08 Feb 2008 12:01:51 PSThttp://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/dark_knight_trailer_in_le.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890I've seen several lego videos lately, and I keep loving them. Where'd they get the Joker? http://www.movieweb.com/video/V08B38celstuRVmorganspurlock movie funnyanthropomorphyWed, 06 Feb 2008 07:22:18 PSThttp://www.movieweb.com/video/V08B38celstuRVMorgan Spurlock goes on the hunt. Fantastic. Via Coudal. http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/31/mtngoats/mountaingoats song politicsanthropomorphyMon, 04 Feb 2008 12:25:26 PSThttp://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/31/mtngoats/And predictably it's sad and bleak and lovely. http://istheday.blogspot.com/photoplay storytellinganthropomorphyMon, 04 Feb 2008 07:59:14 PSThttp://istheday.blogspot.com/For Nordbot. I'm not sure I get it but I really, really like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTqgqhxVMcanncoulter hillary politicsanthropomorphyFri, 01 Feb 2008 19:16:22 PSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTqgqhxVMcI can't bring myself to embed the actual YouTube, but here is her horrible Self on Hannity and Colmes. A bitter spectacle if you're amused by that sort of thing.