>> How to die like an artist. “The die-in is an art installation. The organizers are artists. I am a piece of art. Our forty bodies and forty white sheets and forty red carnations have been arranged on the cement canvas into a death grid, a graveyard. We symbolize the number of Iraqis who die every day from the war. We seek to create the antithesis of war—art—and through it a reverence for life.”

>> The Delicious dead. Korean restaurants like to animate their meat. “Many restaurants advertise specialties with pictures of their dishes, displayed right underneath jovial cartoon versions of whichever animal gave their life for the food.” (via 3qd)

>> The politics of openness. According to a personality map of the US put together by Cambridge Univ. researchers says, the “openness” trait looks a lot like the red-state blue-state electoral map. (via Ideas)

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