Painting water

Another great tip from BoingBoing.net

Youtube dancing

Robot Dance - Kollaboration 2001


Cy Ridge Houston TX HS talent contest

Zoomorphic Calligraphy

Letter animals.

Fish oil better than Ritalin says UK study

It needs to be high-quality fish oil (see comments on article) but hey, worth a try for you guys on ADD treatment, right? Why take something dangerous if you can take something good for you.

Bad laws want to steal your musical rights (what's left of them)

EFF explains what you can do before it's too late. Your children will thank you later for preventing corporate takeover of the hardware and media.

Why Myspace is bad for you

1. Rupert Murdock bought MySpace, which means your information is no longer yours. (Lots of free sites pull this crap, even Flickr.)

When you use the site you "grant to Myspace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide licence (with the rights to sublicense through unlimited levels of sub licensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit and distribute such content on and through the services."

You wouldn't sell these kinds of broad rights to your record company, so why give them away to a website? And of course, it's not just music, it's whatever content you provide there.

Billy Bragg is out of there as a result

2. US gov spy agencies are slurping up all your personal info from MySpace. They want to build information about who knows whom.

3. Employers are looking at MySpace pages for reasons not to hire you.

4. Graffiti writers are being arrested after cops find their MySpace pages.

5. MySpace messages and chat are not private and they don't belong to you.

I am hopeful that as people wake up to the dangers of using MySpace that other, better alternatives will spring up. In the meantime, be very careful what you reveal about yourself on this heavily surveilled site.

Cartoon Contest - political interference in science

The Science Idol winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to have lunch with the celebrity judge of his or her choice, plus:

* A cash prize of $500.
* Winning entry printed in Catalyst and featured on the UCS website.
* Winning entry promoted on cartoonbank.com.
* Winning entry printed on cover of 2007 Defending Science calendar.
* Fifty copies of the 2007 Defending Science calendar, including one signed by all celebrity judges.
* An autographed copy of Dude: The Big Book of Zonker by Doonesbury cartoonist Gary Trudeau.

Judges:

Tony Auth?Cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Clay Bennett?Cartoonist at The Christian Science Monitor and president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists
Robert Mankoff?Cartoon editor for The New Yorker and founder and president of CartoonBank.com
Hillary Price?Creator of the syndicated cartoon Rhymes with Orange

No Glove No Love

"Since June 5, 1981, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has killed more than 25 million people, infected 40 million others and left a legacy of unspeakable loss, hardship, fear and despair."

[...]

"AIDS could kill 31 million people in India and 18 million in China by 2025, according to projections by U.N. population researchers. By then in Africa, where AIDS likely began and where the virus has wrought the most devastation, researchers said the toll could reach 100 million."

[See full article at the link above, at Yahoo news.

Please protect yourself, people. Nobody else is going to do it for you. Condoms are not perfect, but they are absolutely necessary. Don't leave home without one. In the US, you can get condoms for cheap at the public health family planning and planned parenthood clinics. (If you can't afford condoms, imagine how you're going to afford kids!) Do what it takes to take care of yourself, please. We need you, and you need you. HIV takes out young, healthy, good people just like you from Iowa to the Ukraine. It's way more likely to get you than terrorists are. Plus condoms can protect you from herpes and chlamidia, which are both also rampant in the world population of young people now.

On the good-news front for STDs, scientists have recently succeeded in making a vaccine that prevents HPV infection (warts) which causes most of the cervical cancers in women and can be fatal when not treated early. Make sure all the women you know get vaccinnated as soon as it's available, especially your pre-teen girls, because it won't work if you've got the virus already.]

PingMag

Interesting Japanese design blog. Now showing anime illustration techniques.