Category Archives: Art

APOD – The Crown of the Sun

An image of the corona of the Sun dur­ing a recent total solar eclipse.

July 23, 2010 – 12:28 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Last supper ‘has been super-sized’, say obesity experts – BBC News

Food por­tions in depic­tions of “The Last Sup­per” have increased right along with real serv­ing sizes.

March 23, 2010 – 11:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Warner retreats from free music streaming – BBC News

Record label does some­thing stupid.

February 11, 2010 – 12:26 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-​​Four-​​Hour Book Store – Robin Sloan

Won­der­ful short story, about the inter­sec­tion of tech­nol­ogy, writ­ing and a lit­tle bit of culture.

January 17, 2010 – 11:21 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Culture, Technology | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Flickr – Happy New Year’s

The Flickr blog high­lights some great New Year’s photos.

January 1, 2010 – 11:23 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Do Words Actually Matter?

The ques­tion is almost stu­pid to answer because on cer­tain level they must mat­ter or else I wouldn’t pub­lish my thoughts. So words must mat­ter to you because well you are read­ing this and you most likely com­mu­ni­cate with soci­ety. There is a very good rea­son that being deaf and/or mute is an imped­i­ment to …

August 3, 2008 – 3:16 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Philosophy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Securing Our Culture

Yesterday’s post dis­cussed the return of the world famous paint­ing The Scream, the biggest thing that many peo­ple said when it hap­pened was just how easy the rob­bery was to pull off. Hon­estly it was the sort of thing you could see teenagers pull off, and in fact it wasn’t much dif­fer­ent from rob­bing the …

September 6, 2006 – 1:11 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Security | Comments Off