The Modern Age

Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful - New York Times
In the last few months, bottled water — generally considered a benign, even beneficial, product — has been increasingly portrayed as an environmental villain by city leaders, activist groups and the media.

¡Viva las craftivistas! | | Guardian Unlimited Arts

Thirty years ago it was the height of drudgery. Now it’s cool, and political too. Eithne Farry on the women who are making sewing subversive
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Friendship May Lie in the Genes - MSN Health & Fitness
DNA-guided temperament helps decide whom people are drawn to, study suggests
Sundance
Tableware suited to alfresco dining, emblazoned with suns and rich with character.
Matt Damon Gets Best Box-Office Return on Salary - washingtonpost.com
A Forbes magazine survey published on Monday showed Matt Damon offers the best box-office return [...]

Jay McCarroll Will Design for Food - New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer
He’s posted to YouTube at least six videos mocking the characterization, largely filled with him wandering lower Manhattan while repeatedly howling, “I’m homeless, I’m homeless,” and “Will design for food.”
(tags: fashion video youtube projectrunway realitytv)

How Laura from the Village Chippy became Agy the Vogue [...]

According to that trash rag The Associated Press, Jack White and wife Karen Elson greeted their second child into this big bad world on Tuesday, August 7th. His name is fitting of a Southern gentleman, Henry Lee White. Surely 15-month old big sister Scarlett Teresa looks forward to sharing her baby sunblock with him. Congratulations [...]

Long-time reader Beat Royalty sent over these rad links to custom book covers that musicians have done of some of the world’s most famous pieces of literature. It’s all part of a campaign to promote the “My Penguin” book series in which you can design your very own book cover to the book of your [...]

The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting - New York Times
The researchers, Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss, believe their list, published in the August issue of Archives of Sexual Behavior, is the most thorough taxonomy of sexual motivation ever compiled. This seems entirely plausible.

Que Sera Sera: Cringe
On the first Wednesday of each month, brave souls come forward and read aloud from their teenage diaries, journals, notes, letters, poems, abandoned rock operas, and other general representations of the crushing misery of their humiliating adolescence.
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The Deliverymen’s Uprising: How Radical Bicyclists Are Fighting Against Exploitation — New York Magazine
For $1.75 [...]

Unclutterer: Collapsible measuring cups
he silicone cups collapse and nest into each other for a space saving solution that will surely remedy my drawer closing problem

MetLife Presents Snoopy in Fashion at New York’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Iconic Peanuts Characters to Inspire Group Designer Fashion Show; Auction to Follow
(tags: fashion)

No Quick Riches for New York’s Twentysomethings (Gotham Gazette. June, 2007)
Most of this year’s liberal arts graduates will see a salary of about $31,000 – similar to the pay received by a starting [...]