G R E E N G O L D  F I L M

Pre disco-era Bee Gees were pretty rad, if you're into pop psychedelia.  Here's a kind of music video from that time: "Idea" via German television, 1968.

Happening today.

Via Saveur:  Galina Korotkina, in a spurt of joyous kitchen artistry, transformed this classic Russian dish known as captain's chicken into the very likeness of a captain, standing at attention and replete with tomato buttons, a hard-cooked egg head, and a carrot nose.

Nothing makes me happier then the sound of Orson Welles' voice.  Plenty of it in this 30 minute program; Who's Out There? produced for NASA in 1975.

Obama's first moments on Air Force One (as President Elect), via P.W.

Via Kos:

Russell Tice, one of the NSA whistleblowers who exposed the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program, is speaking out now that the Bush administration is gone. On Countdown, Tice described, partially, the extent of the illegal wiretapping program.

A history of anatomical maps via designboom.

Don't miss our new president signing along around the 3:20 mark.  

An interesting consideration of the value of analog photographic prints versus their digital counterparts from Rob Horning of Pop Matters:

I find digital-image frames strange and sad. Would you really stop to contemplate an image in a digital frame? Particularly one that will rotate new images into view like the billboards on bus shelters rotate ads? A certain contempt for memory seems to be built in to this technology. It encourages us to regard nothing framed as permanent, and by extension it prompts us to consider every impulse we might have to frame and preserve a particular image as provisional. The disregard for permanence embodied in such devices as this may establish a kind of material base for institutionalized forgetting.

 Via Andrew Sullivan.