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Happy Public Domain Day!
Continuing a tradition we began last year, we'd like to wish you not just Happy New Year today, but also Happy Public Domain Day!
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Happy Public Domain Day!
Continuing a tradition we began last year, we'd like to wish you not just Happy New Year today, but also Happy Public Domain Day!
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A New, Even More Graphic Anti-Islamic Subway Ad
Remember that subway poster that compared Muslims to savages and called for supporting Israel in order to "defeat Jihad"? The group behind that sloganeering, the American Defense Freedom Initiative (AFDI), is back with a second, even more inflammatory ad that the MTA is explicitly disavowing.
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See All the GIFs on Wikipedia
Whether or not you think 2012 was the Year of the GIF, the fact stands pretty certain: the Graphic Interchange Format is all around us. One place where this is readily apparent is Wikipedia, where GIFs are used to illustrate everything from mathematical principles to how to correctly write a Japanes
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Required Reading
This week, top 10 lists for 2012, the meaning of middlebrow, Italian church art goes online, the best street art in LA and NYC, and more.
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Weekend Words: Falling
With the country heading off the fiscal cliff, Weekend Words thinks about falling.
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Making the Ugly Attractive: A Self-Propelled, Biodegradable Mine Detonator
Afghan designer Massoud Hassani has created an elegant, efficient solution for a horrific, violent problem: His Mine Kafon is a wind-powered device made from plastic and bamboo that triggers land mines without hurting civilians.
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The Most Popular Hyperallergic Posts of 2012
While we at Hyperallergic pride ourselves for our quality and engaging posts, we are also always amused to find out what becomes popular online and brings us oodles of eyeballs. People often ask me "what makes a popular story" and while some things are predictable (SHOCK! CONTROVERSY! O MY!) others
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3D-Printed Christmas Cookies!
If you need any more proof that 3D printing is taking over the entire world, an artist has created perfectly delicious, intricately designed Christmas cookies with the help of a computer model and a printing machine.
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Required Reading
This week, artist's explore Christmas, photography and slavery, Rosler's unradical garage sale, Norman Foster's NYPL designs, early Franz Kline, Hoberman on The Hobbit, and more.
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Weekend Words: Gifts
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
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Know Your Drones With This Model Identification Kit
Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? Nope, it's a remote-controlled surveillance and/or killing machine. James Bridle, the coiner of the New Aesthetic, has created a model kit to help civilians better understand their UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).