"I think what is interesting about this example in relation to the comments by Bogost is not so much that "Luge Crash at the Olympics" (the title of the piece) can be dismissed as uninformative but that the sequence of images is actually hyper-informative – the precision with which this graphic schematizes the death of a man is unsettling"

karaoke renditions of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" lead to death fights in the Philippines. Defused by the employment of gay men to calm down the fights. THIS IS NUTS (via MBS)

"You want to get their attention, make them notice, shine a laser pointer on the ground and watch them scramble out of their graves. But that wouldn’t work, because nothing, no matter how you try, gets the dead’s goat. They’re the natives. We’re the tourists."

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