Whitenoise
Every link I've ever posted to Whitenoise. Most recently posted at the top; stale fare at the bottom.
  • Klick Holiday Video I’ve only been with Klick for a short time but it’s been a great place to work. We put together this video for the holiday season. It’s the best yet!
  • Martin Amis on the nervous breakdown of the GOP
  • “Communicating with James was difficult.” New York Times profile of a deeply troubled man.
  • Bill Nye on Creationism: It’s not appropriate for children!
  • How to Suck at Your Religion A cartoon by The Oatmeal
  • Texas claims abandoned Walmart and turns it into an award-winning library.
  • Beer Cocktails. Learn a bit of history about the Shandygaff!
  • In Mumbai, a man points out people are drinking sewage water. He now faces charges and arrest.
  • Google Computers Teach Themselves To Spot Cats on YouTube The implications are astounding…
  • Can you call a 9-year old a psychopath? A fascinating New York Times article on psychopathy in children.
  • Knowing Your Enemy Sam Harris Delivers a Crushing Blow to Chris Stedman and PZ Myers.
  • Up on the Roof Oh My, That’s Not What I Thought You Had Up There
  • The Rarest Eclipse is (apparently) the transit of Venus across the sun.
  • Training the Emotional Brain Sam Harris Interviews Richard J. Davidson on his work and new book.
  • 25 Years of Gaming History in about 3 minutes.
  • Dan Savage Discusses the Bible at a High School Journalism Convention
  • Why do they hate women? Mona Eltahawy on misogyny and hatred in the Middle East.
  • Bryan Stevenson: We Need To Talk About Injustice This is an extraordinary talk!
  • James Randi Speaks Not in the Name
  • Tron-Inspired Dance Routine: Worth watching. I wonder what gear they’re using. My guess is wearableDuino & xBees or similar.
  • The Beetlecam Project A neat project: using remote-controlled robotics with DSLRs to get nice wildlife photos…
  • Postnatal care in France. Interesting!
  • The Snuggle Sutra For Valentine’s day.
  • Movie Posters re-imagined in another time.
  • Pepper's too pushy! Nominating a new consort for Salt…
  • Was Marilyn Monroe fat? Simon Doonan reveals what he discovered when rifling through the icon’s belongings.
  • Bill Hicks would have turned 50 recently.
  • Ross Douthat, Gravedigger
  • Slate's Announcement of Christopher Hitchens’ passing.
  • The VICE Guide to North Korea
  • HIV vaccine trial approved by the FDA Let’s see if this gets resisted like the HPV vaccine has been.
  • What if there were rules in science journalism?
  • Museum for Bad Art In Boston, MA
  • Craft-Beer Road Trip in America’s Northeast
  • Great collection of 50+ family Christmas Photos I’m not sure which is my favourite.
  • Tocky The alarm clock that runs away from you.
  • Buddhist Retreat Why John Horgan gave up on finding his religion.
  • Mark Laita's "Created Equal" In this photographic work, Laita equates polygamists and prostitutes, gangsters and Mafioso, etc.
  • How to Give a Good Gift Even if you have Asperger’s.
  • The Great Silence SETI and the problems with searching for alien life.
  • Kate Bolick on why marriage is a declining option for women.
  • Is it possible to get a good night's sleep while sitting up?
  • "Feast" A Short Film about Food
  • Four-Story Home in Amsterdam Converted from an old factory.
  • Inquiry Grew into Concerns of a Coverup Troubling account of the Penn State sex abuse scandal
  • Who is John Galt and why is he on LuluLemon Bags?
  • The Old Fashioned The seminal cocktail of a pluralistic nation.
  • Can 17-Year-Olds Vote in Mississippi? Fascinating implications of a farcical amendment.
  • Google's Self Driving Car Is incredibly exciting. I hope to see this technology in full swing in my lifetime.
  • Mitt Romney's Mormon Problem Hitchens tackles the debate surrounding Mitt Romney’s Mormonism
  • 29-Year-Old Woman Born Deaf Hears Herself For the first time.
  • Reconstructed HIV used to fight cancer.
  • Bamboo Bikes These aren’t just really cool… they’re gorgeous.
  • Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully kill cancer I don’t fully understand this, but it seems promising.
  • The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox Perhaps there has been a miscarriage of justice in Italy.
  • Alexa Meade makes human models look like walking paintings.
  • Dear Photograph A really neat blog idea: Old pictures held to fit the view where they were taken.
  • Vintage Pin-Up Girl Drawings and their sources of inspiration!
  • Example – Kickstarts Good dubstep song, with a good video.
  • True American Dog This is some really creative nonsense. Really neat, sometimes very funny.
  • Revolights Really cool idea for bicycle illumination.
  • Vision Research's Phantom 1210 and 1610 do slow-motion in style.
  • Big Ben has a Twitter Feed! Kudos to whoever came up with this.
  • Did God Create the Universe? Discovery’s ‘Curiosity’ invites Stephen Hawking to share his knowledge.
  • X-Communicated Mormon Drinking Team. I’m rooting for them!
  • elevate.co Cool UX development firm.
  • You're never alone in the Chopping Mall!
  • Children's Reactions to President Obama
  • Minimalist Back to the Future An interesting take on posters for BTTF.
  • Malika Favre Interesting Graphic Artist based in London
  • Very Interesting Ceilings collected by the BBC.
  • A look into some Norway's Maximum Security Prisons
  • Jimpressions: Impressionist Jim Meskimen Does Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices
  • Christopher Hitchens on the Catholic Church During an Intelligence Squared Debate. Fantastic.
  • Jenna Jameson offers some words of inspiration.
  • Teetotal Nonsense From Nathan Currier, supporting the temperence movement, a lithograph.
  • Hitchens on the Vile NOTW, and Rupert Murdoch’s cynical view of what people want to read in newspapers.
  • Handy Internet Explorer 6 Emulators Free from Microsoft. Great for WebDev.
  • This is how I discovered the truth An ex-Mormon named Chris explains how he came to his senses.
  • The Ledge: a movie about an atheist caught in a moral conundrum. Looks interesting.
  • Gay Scientists Isolate the "Christian Gene" Interesting role reversal.
  • Photographs that Evoke Classic Horror Films
  • One Man's Take On how to fix the horror genre.
  • Surprise Verdict: Casey Anthony found not guilty.
  • Daniel Radcliffe apparently struggled with alcohol.
  • Photographs of Objects that are intentionally dysfunctional.
  • Sex, Lies and Audiotape William Saletan’s take on the recent developments in the Strauss-Kahn ordeal
  • KiraKira Waypoints An interesting Flash game or interactive display.
  • Bush Vs Gore is it more harmful for children to be exposed to violent videogames, or hardcore pornography?
  • Oddvertising: 18 great skittles ads.
  • Some very interesting architecture. I like the Yellow Brick House
  • Capstan Table This table is really, really cool
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn's 50,000 dollars-a-month Tribeca Rental
  • A Strange Story about a man’s quest to breastfeed.
  • Drop Balls, Draw Lines, Make Music All with Javascript! Balldroppings.
  • Dichloroacetate and Cancer P.Z. Meyers sheds light on the subject of dichloroacetate’s effects on cancer.
  • My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook (And All I Got Was This Lousy Article)
  • 25 Abandon War Monuments in former Yugoslavia
  • Barack Obama sent Osama Bin Laden Two Bullets Barack Obama’s Last Facebook Feed, from Slate Magazine
  • How to Stop Cats from Pissing on your Car Creative, humane, and bloody funny.
  • Read between the lines… this article is as damning of religion as they come.
  • A Collection of Digitized Handheld Games. Neat.
  • What a brush with death taught David Eagleman about the mysteries of time and the brain.
  • Should we all be Mormons in the Matrix?
  • A.C. Grayling Suggests Secular Books for Living a Good and Moral Life
  • Excellent Photography by Steve Tsai!
  • A Billboard that Advertises Nothing but Air.
  • 40,000 Korans Burn for Free Speech! I believe this was necessary, considering the violence that erupted in Afghanistan after the T.J. Koran burning.
  • Awesome List of Wallpapers Thanks for the link, Vince!
  • Andrew W.K. interviewed by Fox News
  • Review of the TomTom iPhone Car Kit worth reading if you’re interested in iPhone/iPad navigation.
  • Space Tourism is Getting Closer It looks like Virgin is giving considerable effort to make this happen.
  • Chandra x-Ray Observatory Nasa’s Top Ten Facts about its Satellite
  • Drinking Dead Mice from a Monster Energy Drink. Yuck.
  • Can Falling Bullets Kill You? I’ve always wondered.
  • Good Service … doesn’t seem to result in good tips.
  • Born to Create Drama I think this is hilarious, terrible, and awesome all at once.
  • A Good Example of how not to respond to criticism.
  • Hitchens on Iraq's influence in the Libyan Uprising, and others.
  • Dogboarding …spend more time with your pets
  • Many Britons Identifying themselves as irreligious.
  • Interactive Map showing how New York City grew. Neat!
  • Arranged Marriage isn’t working out for these two.
  • Students Suspended by Catholic School directors for exercising their democratic freedoms.
  • The 12 States of America an interactive map outlining various demographics in the US.
  • History of Science Fiction this is really neat.
  • Standing Idly By; the effect can be brutalizing.
  • Downhill Bike Race in Chile This is absolutely incredible
  • Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time One of my favourite Youtube videos I’ve seen in a while.
  • Fred Phelps is a majorly shabby character.
  • Book Sculptures These are fantastic
  • Wes Anderson-like films.
  • Oh the fun you can have …with a sleeping baby!
  • Download iTunes Trailers Here’s a good way to do it, if you’re technically inclined.
  • Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Goodbye, Tura Satana.
  • Fancy Parking Methods How to Park Your Car
  • HuffPo and Search Engine Optimization I read this because I’ve never looked into SEO before. Interesting.
  • Microsoft Kinect Interfaces I had no idea the Kinect would turn out to be so useful!
  • Girl's Dog Breaks Dead Space 2 Disc complains on twitter; gets this! Awesome!
  • If Filmmakers Directed the Super Bowl Quentin & Lynch style.
  • Real-Life Angry Birds This is rather well done.
  • Utterly Horrifying An Infographic on the Disgusting Practice of Stoning.
  • Yoshi Island Neat and Simple Javascript – 3D!
  • Happiest Toddler on the Block I heard Karp talk on the radio yesterday. Interesting!
  • The Oscars seem to ignore this very dark director.
  • The Anti-Social Network Facebook probably makes you sadder
  • Free Wheels East I want to see this. The synopsis reminds me a bit of 132k.
  • I Have An Action Item What if Martin Luther King Used Powerpoint to Deliver His Legendary 1963 Speech?
  • Windowlicker Aphex Twin. Awesome.
  • Carmageddon! Laughed harder at this than any other video in a while…
  • On the venerable Judy Clarke Insight into how she saves violent murderers from the death penalty.
  • Unconventional Wisdom Fantastic collection of essays and articles put together by Foreign Policy magazine
  • Awesome Website You had to be into DOS to get it. But great nonetheless.
  • How to Make a Decent Cup of Tea
  • Collection of 50 Digital Artworks Very pleasant to look at.
  • Nikumaroro is a really interesting-looking place. I’d like to visit sometime. But not like Amelia Earhart.
  • Mental Health Issues … are more widespread than you might think. Services to help those afflicted are badly underfunded.
  • Tommy Wiseau's The Room in 3D This looks strange
  • Google Docs Animation … really neat
  • Free Vector Images and Textures from fuzzimo.com
  • Awesome Shot … of the Miami Heat, taken with a Canon 5D Mark II
  • Has a cure for HIV been found? I’m reserving my jubilation ’till we get some consistent results.
  • Dalhousie Course teaches students to protest.
  • Ben the Bodyguard Very neat website concept…
  • Apple iOS Sends Out Real Names in Invitations Interesting… is this a step toward a You Dot Net-type social network?
  • Entire Population of the World …killed inside a fortnight
  • Ghanaian Woman Burned to Death …they thought she was a witch.
  • The Queen Haters Funny spoof of the Sex Pistols (I think)
  • The Cookie Monster …Wants to Host SNL!
  • 15-Story Building Made in 6 Days A time-lapse video of a building constructed in 6 days
  • Is Cancer Our Evil, Smarter Twin? A new metaphor may tell us what we need to know about the disease.
  • Miss Manners And the Big C Another essay by Hitchens on his illness
  • Slowcoaster – Great band But they need a better website
  • Traffic-Swallowing Straddling-Bus Interesting concept for traffic congestion relief…
  • Crocodile on plane kills 19 people Insanity in wake of croc escape
  • New Police Chief Brave Woman!
  • All Natural Breasts May be the Key to Regenerative Medicine
  • Sex Dot Com Apparently, the most expensive domain name sale ever.
  • Brooklyn Space Program A dad and his kids make a balloon that goes to space, carrying an HD camera and iPhone
  • MapCrunch See the world through google street view – one random location at a time!
  • Chilean Miner Rescue I got anxiety just reading about this.
  • Revering Che Guevera… is a sick, sad joke.
  • A Radical Pessimist's Guide… to the next ten years.
  • Science & Religion Aren't Friends Jerry Coyne Talks about the Incompatibility Between Science & Religion
  • On Harvard, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg Nathan Heller talks about the new movie “The Social Network”
  • Interesting Article on Being Wrong Susie Bright talks about being wrong.
  • The New Blackberry Playbook This thing looks pretty impressive!
  • This Is How a Heavy Storm Looks Inside a Cruise Liner Some pretty crazy footage here.
  • Dot. The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8 Neat!
  • Tim Heidecker in CLUES – "You Have My Eyes Now" Awesome music video I found through Parker Martin
  • Neat! YouTube Time Machine! Go back in time.
  • White Fright Glenn Beck’s rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity.
  • 50 sites that are better than mine (Graphically) I just shake my head. Wow.
  • 30 Awesome Blog Designs These are ridiculous.
  • Dr. Feel-Heinous Ever heard of her?
  • National Geographic – Timeless Design Fabulous look at the little-changed design of National Geographic
  • New York Kiss : We’ve all seen this kiss. Now from another perspective.
  • Chamomile Tea Party…[SLIDESHOW] : Old school posters urge end to partisan bickering.
  • © 2013 Blair Kelly