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Banksy’s Pet Project
Brain Pickings | October 10th 2008
Street art, sausage and social commentary. DO YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT? We’re known here for our love/hate relationship with Banksy. (That, and our sometimes-excessive-always-obsessive hyphenation.) We’ve followed the legendary guerrilla read more
Reverse Psychology Halloween Edition
Brain Pickings | October 3rd 2008
How to nail the I-don’t-give-a-fuck look by actually not giving a fuck but hopefully getting one. TRICK OR TRITE Halloween, that special time when people who should not be roaming the streets half-naked get to roam the streets half-naked, is al read more
Cartography by the People
Brain Pickings | September 30th 2008
What getting lost in Eindhoven has to do with a nice pit bull and a shovel. read more
You Better Believe It
Brain Pickings | September 25th 2008
Why we drink, scandal!, the world's most expensive clock, theft-worthy animation, what Radiohead and Goldfrapp have in common, and how diarrhea can save the planet. read more
Globe-Trotting Goodness
Brain Pickings | September 18th 2008
The big picture gets bigger, P2P filesharing gets legal, why the Japanese are better smilers than us, what Kentucky and Lithuania have in common, and how to replace the White House with a potato. read more
Hidden Music Top 3
Brain Pickings | September 15th 2008
Dr. House gets down, web design goes hip hop, and your salad performs at Carnegie Hall. read more
Retro Blast
Brain Pickings | September 12th 2008
Saggy superheroes, dance lessons from James Brown, what chickens have to do with the roots of hip hop, how to fix all your marriage troubles, and why Springfield, MO is a nerd hotspot. read more
Inner Kid Fodder
Brain Pickings | August 7th 2008
Cat herding, bionic lobsters, how to finally understand your mother, and why Ian likes the Over Under. read more
Inner Kid Fodder
Brain Pickings | August 7th 2008
Cat herding, bionic lobsters, how to finally understand your mother, and why Ian likes the Over Under. read more
Street Pickings: Riding Rebels
Brain Pickings | July 28th 2008
Sticking it to the man on Kryptonite at a time, and then some art. read more
Re:Perception
Brain Pickings | July 22nd 2008
Adult wonderland, adult telecommunication, 229 miles of patriotism, why George Lucas is going head-to-head with a D-lister, and what NASA has to do with the MoMA. read more
Inflated Claims of Art
Brain Pickings | July 16th 2008
Soundtrack to the sidewalk, subway zoo, and why the British tabloids insist on harassing a 65-year-old lady. read more
Oh, Conan
Brain Pickings | July 16th 2008
The one and only Paul "The Truth" Pierce on Conan O'Brien. read more
Power to the People
Brain Pickings | July 7th 2008
The two man-beasts face off on a driving range, hitting long balls like there's no tomorrow. Home Run Derby anyone? read more
Carriers Rethought
Brain Pickings | June 30th 2008
4 new ways to look at and use carriers of all varieties, from vehicles to shipping containers to plastic bags to coffins. read more
What's New on the Green Scene?
Red Jenny | June 24th 2008
"We have reached a point of planetary emergency," says climatologist James Hansen. It seems the earth is near a tipping point. Busy doing the most tipping are the richest Canadians, the tar sands, and businesses.Imagine the whole human family squabbl read more
Animal Farm
Brain Pickings | June 18th 2008
4 cool animal-related gems: Fido for prez, Mother's Day for the rest of us, the world's hairiest artist, and how grapes can be bigger than grapefruits. read more
Mobile Madness
Brain Pickings | June 16th 2008
3 fresh mobile services that help us stay on top of it all read more
Friday FYI: Auditory Freedom
Brain Pickings | May 30th 2008
How to get a song unstuck from your head. read more
Layman Voyeurism
Brain Pickings | May 29th 2008
There's a new trend of focusing our inner peeping Toms not on celebrities but, rather, on random aspects of random strangers' lives. And we've got the 3 cool, weird, and somewhat questionable projects that do just that. read more
Hodgepodge of Cool | SHEEP!
Brain Pickings | May 16th 2008
Sheep are new penguins – that awkward yet adorable "it" species of popular adulation that gives rise to all kinds of trends. And here are their coolest cameos. read more
Hodgepodge of Cool | Mindless Fun
Brain Pickings | May 13th 2008
The 5 best places to go for those times when you just need to stare blankly at something incredibly amusing and embrace the joy of utter absurdity. read more
Hodgepodge of Cool | Incredible Edibles
Brain Pickings | May 12th 2008
The 5 coolest food-related concepts out there that give "food for thought" a whole new meaning, from the aesthetic to the bizarre to the world-changing. read more
Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 4
Brain Pickings | May 8th 2008
The most influential guerrilla and street art that liberates our urban landscape from the gray grip of blandness and makes a social statement in the process. read more
Reclaiming Urban Landscape | Part 2
Brain Pickings | May 6th 2008
Graffiti artwork, once the mark of a city's counter-culture, has come dangerously close to becoming an expected cultural cliché. Some of it, however, breaks convention in the most unexpected and stride-stopping of ways: here are our top 5 picks. read more
Down With The Man | Part 1
Brain Pickings | April 27th 2008
A twist to traditional origami that uses currency to craft hilarious portraits of political leaders.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Down With The Man | Part 1", url: "http://www.stickandmove.com/brainpickings/index.php/2008/04/27/down-with-the-man- read more
Down With The Man | Part 2
Brain Pickings | April 27th 2008
A small group of dedicated citizens is out to get 3-day weekends every weekends, and they're urging us to stop wishing, start doing, and join the ranks.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Down With The Man | Part 2", url: "http://www.stickandmove.com/b read more
B-Sides and Breakaways
Brain Pickings | April 11th 2008
Dancing in the streets, digital Dickens, time retold, LEGO on Times Square, 34841003122 reasons we’re devolving, what Etruscan vases have to do with skin rashes, and how to out-BlackBerry the BlackBerry. Welcome to the B-Sides and Breakaways is read more
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