- Our new favorite single serving site turns Hugh Grant’s face different colors with the Hue/Saturation tool. Lightness and saturation have been turned off. [Hue Grant]
- Perhaps a public service, but sleazy execution: Somebody combed the porn star database and put together every demographic statistic imaginable on adult film entertainers. Here’s the opener: “I can’t recall how I first heard about the Internet Adult Film Database—the self-proclaimed ‘premier resource for information about the American porn community on the web’, but for the longest time I knew I wanted to plunder its treasure trove of juicy information.” Further findings are often relayed in cum jokes. [Jon Millward]
- Electronic shock collars stress out dogs. This should be obvious to all dog-lovers. [Washington Post]
- The history of SWAT teams from the 60s through to today. Watch the segment about the guy whose dog was shot. No spoilers from us, but it’s jaw dropping. [Retro Report]
- As is customary, The Apple Store has been taken offline in anticipation of today’s big launch of the iPhone and iWatch. The Times has been live blogging since 8:00 a.m. and the conference doesn’t start until 1:00 p.m. (EST) today. [Bits Blog]
- The British Museum is looking for a student or recent computer science grad to help them update their website for free. [Hyperallergic]
- Here’s a Google image search for “Tom Otterness.” It’s a mixed bag of work, for sure, but sometimes those cutesy figures demonstrate great inventiveness! [Google, in response to this Twitter thread]
- The New Yorker Festival events are out. Ew: Malcolm Gladwell. Stuff we actually want to see: a talk about income inequality with David Brooks, call-ins with Edward Snowden and Kim Dotcom, an interview with Laurie Anderson, and an intelligentsia-stocked debate on cats versus dogs. We feel that this last event compares apples and oranges, and both animals contain contain lovable features. [New Yorker Festival]
- The Google Cultural Institute adds more museums to its growing rosters of museums who like to put their art online with the help of Google. [Google Art]
- One (or a few) bad apples spoil the bunch. Costumed cartoon characters in Times Square are now all getting background checks and licenses. Apparently the “Spider-Man incident” was the come-to-Jesus moment. [The New York Times]
- Here is what Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial portrait looks like. The Kindergarten Cop star paid for the portrait himself, choosing the the hyper-realistic flair of fellow Austrian, Gottfried Helnwein. [SF Gate]
- Wow. Tim Wu, a candidate for Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor, and the man who coined the phrase “net neutrality” is suing the New York Democratic Party for interfering in its own primary. [The Nation]
- Magic, barn-raising, meteorites: all that you missed during the Edinburgh Art Festival. [Frieze Blog]
- Two Trump casinos to file for bankruptcy. [Bloomberg]
- Note to art jurors: Never stand up during an awards ceremony and announce that none of the artists are worthy of a prize. [Yahoo! Australia]
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