The Fredösphere

The always engaging Design Observer website has noticed The New Republic has equipped a highly trained and intrepid anthropologist with pith helmet, an elephant gun and an oversized butterfly net for the purpose of studying the primative artifacts of -- and perhaps, with a lot of luck, capturing a live specimen from -- the most remote, exotic, and downright incomprehensible of all human (I use that word "human" advisedly) cultures on the planet:  American Conservatives.  Memo to Alan:  yes, AuH2O is mentioned prominently.

My buddy John gave me links to two unusual art websites:  car window dust art (it's the Michaelangelo of "Wash Me") and Star Trek motivational posters.  Fine art, indeed -- although I would say the dust art's full potential remains untapped, judging by the examples shown.

Finally, by way of Colby Cosh, it's Arno Breker, the Leni Riefenstahl of marble and bronze.  "The monumental is my sickness."