links for 2007-10-22

• Iranian medical student kills herself
  caught with a boy out of wedlock.
  (tags: politics iran)
• Shotaro Nakano
  japanese circuit bender working with ol’ pachinko machines
  (tags: japan media music pachinko)
• even more mario galaxy footage
  so okami for the wii and mario galaxy. click on the extra clips when you’re done
  (tags: media games mario wii)
• music from Shoko Asahara
  the guy who pumps the trains full of nerve gas
  (tags: music media)
• Charles Manson and the beach boys
  I didn’t know Charlie’s songs were pretty good.
  (tags: music media history)
• new japanese employment agenct
  it lets employers send out a request to locals for small part time jobs
  (tags: business japan mobile network work)
• Dopplr
  it’s spelled like flickr, but it’s really about travel
  (tags: geo mobile portal social socialnetworking travel watch web web2.0)
• new york times on water scarcity
  (tags: environment water conservation sustianability)
• another “advance” in computing
  basically more specialized processors attached to your microprocessor
  (tags: computing technology)
• Leonard Nimoy’s pictures of Obese women
  former star trek actor raises concepts of beauty and Heather MacAllister’s ideas of redefining body types. It definitely raises some questions and the women do look beautiful.
  (tags: beauty women bodies feminism)
• An economist draws implications from Faulkner’s Red Leaves
  on the economics of slavery,. cannibalism, and other issues.
  (tags: slavery politics economics literature south)
• excellent summary of Derrida
  haven’t read anything this nice in awhile
  (tags: derrida philosophy thinking)
• An Environmental Economist on The NYT piece on Water Scarcity
  (tags: economics environment water)
• More Americans play WoW than farm
  it’s funny
  (tags: america blog economics farming future history)
• Fuck the South
  I kinda agree with him
  (tags: blogs commentary culture election geography politics)
• Reg on Contemporary Japanese Art
  includes a guy in a hamster suit eating wood
  (tags: hamster wood art japan media)
• NYT on Corruption and military contractors
  on the bribes and other graft that make up the pentagon and the military-industrial complex
  (tags: military war iraq politics corruption)
• A Communications Primer
  internet archive of a film detailing the basics of modern day communication by the folks who made powers of 10
  (tags: communication information media movies)
• animations of future cities
  (tags: cities urban environment)