Oil, Baby

There have, not surprisingly, been any number of editorial cartoons offering takes on the ongoing BP Gulf Oil Spill disaster. Many of them are funny, some of them are angry, some of them are silly, and so on.

Signe Wilkinson really got at the whole picture with this one though...

It Ain't My Fault

We got to stop the oil spilling out and ruining the Gulf too, but for now if the Spill has you down but you just can't get away from hit let Mos Def drive for a bit...



Plus that's just good music people.

(via NCCN)

Another Last Chance For Bluefin

When Bluefin Tuna failed to gain listing as a protected species at the CITES convention earlier this year, most Bluefin advocates took it as a pretty solid nail in the majestic (and oh so tasty) fish's coffin.

Throw in the fact that the BP Gulf Spill has been dumping enormous amounts of oil into the Bluefin's spawning grounds during spawning season and that'll just about do it most folks would say.

The Center for Biological Diversity isn't throwing in the towel just yet, however. They've just announced the filing of a formal petition to grant the Bluefin Endagered status here in the US. If successful the tactic might help to slow the Bluefin's demise. Unfortunately, too much of the catch takes place beyond US jurisdiction and too much of the market goes to Japan for it to really save the species.

Greenpeace is also refusing to go quietly on the Bluefin front, last week it deployed its flagship to the Med to effect tuna fleets in the same style in which it used to interfere with whaling ships.

I hope we manage to save some tuna, I'm in this fight largely because I don't want to have to stop eating fish.

Goodbye Productivity

So the Google Doodle for the Pac-man anniversary was awesome, and now it has a permanent home on the web, kiss your free time goodbye. At least for a little while, without extra levels it will get old soon enough.

Anyone remember how to play snake in your gmail?

World Cup Fever

Catch It!



(this video originally appeared in a Vimeo format which is no longer available)

World Cup commercials continue to be the best sports ads out there.

Who can forget this one...



(via Joe Posnanski for the new one)

Read This Now - About That Spill

I was going to but together a little rundown on all the shenanigans surrounding the huge amounts of oil that continue to pour into the Gulf of Mexico with no expectations of being brought under control for another month still. But then I realized that Amy Davidson at the New Yorker had already done a really good job of it.

So go see what she has to say already...

That easily surpasses Nixon’s “I think that you would have to conclude that this is a Great Wall” in the category of unhelpful quasi-metaphysical politico-babble. He should save thoughts like that for whenever they remake “Cosmos.” Meanwhile, Hayward met with Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida, and promised to help pay for a tourism advertising campaign. It might take a bit more than that if, as a computer model indicates it may be, the oil is caught in the Loop Current, which would carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast. The ocean is big and the ocean is wide—but that doesn’t mean it’s a bottomless box we can stuff things into.

Brighten Your Day

Color me impressed! These guys are managing to paint entire blocks of favelas in Rio, and are hoping to paint an entire one some day. Very crazy, but very cool, and apparently amazingly successful.

There's more info on their website, and a lot more pictures on their facebook page.

(via MF on fb)