Month: February 2014
PornMD — a search engine that lets you search multiple porn sites for very specific XXX content — has launched a new feature. You can now see what people are searching for, in real time. It’s horrifying, enlightening and kind of inspiring. So, ANIMAL has just commissioned several digital artists and published authors to write us […]
The Tumblr EMOCTV collects instances in which forward-thinking music turns up in children’s TV shows — everything from Mr. Rogers demonstrating an ARP synthesizer, above, to art-rock veterans The Residents performing on the Chicago public access program Chic-a-Go-Go. It’s all worth perusing, but the highlight is an episode of the French TV show Angelo Rules […]
That vast swath of darkness at the center of the above image, looking like a speckled, oddly shaped body of water — that’s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, photographed from the International Space Station on January 30th. NASA has some relevant landmarks labeled for context. It’s a striking reminder of how literally and figuratively […]
The MtGox Bitcoin Exchange is dead. Their website is a “sorry we’re closed” message. Yesterday they deleted all their tweets. Their old office is empty and their new office is a virtual office — a PO Box with a secretary. The sudden collapse of MtGox has left MtGox investors with nothing and cost 15% for investors on other exchanges in […]
The most hated statue in Sofia, Bulgaria has been painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, in solidarity with the revolution and the deadly protests in the former Soviet Republic. It is, essentially, a gigantic bronze relief to remind the Bulgarian people about an invading Soviet forces that crushed and “liberated” the country from its […]
According to Phillip Paulwell, leader of government business in Jamaica’s House of Representatives, legislators may decriminalize use and possession of small amounts of cannabis by the end of the year. Despite its reputation as herb-friendly, the country still has strict laws regulating the plant. “It is my view that decriminalisation of the weed will become a […]
Here are some classic vintage mugshots of “all round thieves,” “warehousebreakers” and “bad characters” from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via the World’s Best Ever. Their general olde timey-ness is amusing, but the fanciful descriptions of their “marks” are fascinating: “Heart, clasped hands, Ture Love, Evelyn;” “extensively tattooed forearms and hands;” “8 dots tatt. left forearm;” “blue dot between […]
Wes Anderson’s use of music in his films can verge on self-parody, but when he catches you off guard with a tune, the results can be sublime: think Margot Tenenbaum exiting the bus to Nico’s “These Days,” or the Darjeeling Limited brothers funereal walk to The Kinks’ “Strangers.” So approach Pitchfork’s stream of the soundtrack to The […]
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey just conducted its first study on stop-and-frisk in Newark, and while much is left to be learned, one thing seems clear: in terms of results, Newark cops are better at it than the NYPD. In the city across the Hudson, about 25 percent of stops result in […]
Remo, NoHo. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
