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April 4, 2008

300 women political bloggers; Mp3s: Radiohead, '70s prog rock; Stone's 'W'; Modern medieval art, a hula hoop dome

The Political Voices of Women. "Opinion and Commentary of Over 300 Women Political Bloggers."

Catherine Morgan, founder of Informed Voters, explains,

This is a blog dedicated to giving women political bloggers a voice. If you have ever wondered, "Where are all the women political bloggers?"...You've just found them. From a list of over 300 women who blog about politics, I will choose one (or more) each day to be featured here...Liberal to conservative and everything in between...

Leading today is a post about the verbal war at the big Democratic political sites.

This is from a post by Sue at Nailing Jello To The Wall.

I came across an interesting post over at All Spin Zone. Blogger Richard Blair has done an admittedly unscientific study of the site traffic at 5 “A-List” progressive sites over the past month. You will recall that I wrote about my personal decision to stop visiting certain sites where I no longer felt welcome as a Clinton supporter. Well, apparently I was not alone in that decision:

A quick review of the graphics below tell a surprising tale: traffic is down significantly on the pro-Obama sites (30% or more over the past month), but about level on the pro-Clinton and “neutral” sites. What does this mean? I have no friggin’ idea. But the trends are clear and appear to be statistically significant.

You can read more and see the graphs here.

Although everyone types under an alias, the demographic profile of Obama supporters skews young and male, and of Clinton supporters older and female, it looks like aggressive young men have driven their mothers off these sites. but it's probably not quite so clear-cut. (Maybe not so young v. old, maybe not boys v. girls.)

Free mp3s: Radiohead Live at the BBC Radio Theatre, London, April 1, 2008.

Plus '70s prog rock (Genesis, ELP) all fresh at BigO, Singapore.

Movie: Daddy Issues, War Lust in Oliver Stone's 'W'. At ABC news,

It's a classic American story: In the prime of his life, a man who parties too much and lives in the shadow of his esteemed father turns his life around. He gives up alcohol, embraces religion and finds a new purpose.

But will his desire to impress his dad and purge his personal demons put the world in danger?

Coming soon to a movie theater near you: controversial director Oliver Stone's "W," the life story of President George W. Bush, a warts-and-all portrayal.

Though the movie is scheduled for release in 2009, there is a chance that it might be pushed up to come out before the November election, say insiders.

The movie, which starts filming this month with "No Country for Old Men" actor Josh Brolin playing Bush, paints a humanistic portrait of the president along with plenty of embarrassing anecdotes from his life story, judging by a copy of an early screenplay obtained by ABCNEWS.com...

How the masters did that:

The finished Becca (Sundial), 2006, egg tempera with gold and palladium leaf, collection of Dr. and Mrs. Joe Gretzula.

Jorn Barger's terse Robot Wisdom Web log headline is "Medieval paintcraft illustrated"; the page's official title is Fred Wessel | Technique Steps.

The subject is a medieval-style portrait, the process illustrated in 12 stages, with captions such as "Red clay “bole” mixed with rabbit skin glue was applied in the areas of the panel that would be covered with gold leaf."

Also found by Jorn: A dome made of 1,500 hula hoops and 12,500 zip ties, part of a milan design week preview 2008 at the amazing European site designboom. Poke around the Art category of its cut'n'paste blog for a visual treat.

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