Archive for July 25th, 2008

Banksy busted?

Perhaps the most notoriously unidentified graffiti artist of all time has been photographed (or has he??).  At least that’s what a recent TIME article is reporting.  Known for his beautifully subversive works, Banksy has been compared to Andy Warhol for his consumerism and pop-culture shish-kebabbing.
From the TIME article:
Banksy’s art is frequently political, often funny and [...]

Breakfast bits: news digest

The Grassy Knol: Google is flipping the bird to Wikipedia this week by launching their own collaborative web encyclopedia, dubbed “Knol“.  They define a knol as a “unit of knowledge” but the real jab is how they describe individual articles: “an authoritative article about a specific topic.” [emhpasis added]  Rather than opening a topic up [...]

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