American Madness

Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation

10 x 10

So, 10 x 10 is a pretty interesting website/blog.
Basically they trawl the web and find the most popular and newest news content represented by a single word and image. It is all then displayed in a 10 x 10 grid of thumbnailed images. When you click on one of the images the top head lines [...]

Color Movies

I just discovered Speak Up due to an interesting write up they did on movie posters and their color schemes.
Here is the basis of their post- they looked at the movie posters for the top 5 grossing movies by rating (top 5 NC-17, top 5 R, top 5 PG-13, etc.) and then broke these posters [...]

Organic Art

Okay, stick with me here, my Japanese isn’t that good so I am stealing my information from another site, but this was pretty cool so I wanted to post it.
Inakadate, Japan is the home to about 8,000 residents who have worked together since 1993 to produce intricate art in their rice field.
Each year they have [...]

Where did that come from?

“Kameraflage is display technology specifically designed for the camera-phone generation.”
Or at least that is what the website touts it as.
As we all know the human eye can only see a limited array of colors. We hit the UV or IR marks and we don’t see a thing. Digital Camera’s and displays on the other hand [...]

An Army of One… Only $.25

Have you heard of “America’s Army?”
It’s a video game designed by the Army that serves a couple of functions. It previously was only available for download, so right off the bat, they could identify you as some one with an interest in the army. The it got you used to the armies language, tools, machines, [...]

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