Archive for May, 2008

Gangstas for Life and skin bleaching

There’s nothing weirder, given the misconceptions about Jamaica, than youths, bleach-faced, tight-panted and dancing in formation with each other. Bleaching is the subject of young Jamaican artist Ebony G Patterson’s latest work.
Her series Gangstas for Life has already been exhibited at Art Chicago this spring. Ebony G Patterson is represented in the United States [...]

Six people murdered per day in Jamaica during May

The Jamaica Observer reports that 181 people were murdered in May. There’s a been an increased level of gang murders and reprisals while word on the street is that the Cash Plus fiasco means there’s an increasing trickle down of hunger, down to the littlest, least rational gunman.
Minister of National Security Trevor MacMillan promised, “…this [...]

Beauty is Divine: Goddess

Here’s a sexy one. Discovered by accident via a top link at Reddit’s NSFW page (not that we check that sort of stuff regularly or anything); we were instantly impressed by the design and content of Goddess: Beauty is Divine.
Although the site more than delivers on its promise to deliver a sizzling hot fusion of [...]

Dancing: White people just go too far

Okay, they were bad but he needs to control himself. This is the real David Brent.

Computer that can read your mind, scary

Using brain scans and specific words, boffins have trained a computer to read people’s minds: “F***… IT… Department!”
Tom Mitchell of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who helped lead the study said that the work should help researchers discover how and where the brain stores information.
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