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Phillip Toledano: "A New Kind of Beauty" (portraits of "extreme" plastic surgery)
Above: Tiana. More photos from Phillip Toledano's portrait series of people who have undergone "extreme plastic surgery" on the photographer's website. Toledano asks, "Is beauty informed by contemporary culture? By history? Or is it defined by the surgeon's hand? Can we identify physical trends th... More.
Soul Train 1973 line dance clip: antidote to Monday
If this video does not make you measurably happier than before you clicked "play," your heart is a cold, dead wasteland. Update: some commenters believe that the heavy-set fellow in the dashing sweater vest around 1:08 is Fred "Rerun" Berry, who did indeed dance on Soul Train around this time. S... More.
The great punk poet Jim Carroll has died.
What a sad loss. He will be remembered, respected, and missed. NYT obituary. Patti Smith, another personal idol of mine, says of Carroll, "I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beaut... More.
Videos on bus capture disaster when driver falls asleep
I hope no one was seriously injured in this nightmarish highway accident. Previously:Truck driver forgets to lower his trailer Boing Boing Truck with raised trailer smashed into overpass - Boing Boing Videos of many car crashes on icy Portland road - Boing Boing Plane crash video fetish - Boing... More.
Amazon/Macmillan: Price discrimination and demand elasticity
My latest Publishers Weekly column, "The Price Is Right," looks at the Amazon-Macmillan price dispute as a fight between two strategies for maximizing profit: price discrimination (getting the most out of each customer) and demand elasticity (sacrificing some per-customer revenue to sell to more peo... More.
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