Added a small little feature to the Link Dumps, I went and numbered each link. Makes referencing it a lot easier should you want to comment on one of the articles. Busy week so I figured I should pound this out cause my homie Richard is coming in from San Jose so I assume I’ll be playing the role of tour guide over the next day.

-Eugene

*If you’re always on the go, I’m a huge advocate for Instapaper. Basically you can bookmark links to read on your mobile device later and it can strip away all the unnecessary imagery to load more quickly.
**If you encounter a login page for a NY Times article (yes there are quite a few of them…), I highly suggest signing up for a free account or else use this dummy one I set up.

Login: tempaccountNYT
Password: tempaccountNYT

#1. Q+A with incoming MOCA director director Jeffrey Jeffrey Deitch
Looks to be a big move in the art world where typically you don’t have a gallery owner going from the private domain to the public domain. I really am not that well-versed in art by any stretch of the imagination, but this is an interesting read to see the intersection of creativity and business. It’s a three-parter but divided mainly for clarity not for length.

#2. The Pig & The Butcher
No secret I’ll fuck an animal up at the dinner table. If not wasting is a sign of respect, I guess I’m as respectful as they come… nothing really is out of my realm of consumption and I think this video does a good job of creating an eerie but intimate relationship with what ultimately ends up on your dinner plate. Of course, most of our meat doesn’t show up like this.

#3. Becks Blogire: Back in Milan
If Beckham wrote had a blog, his latest post would look something like this. I guess he really does he Donovan haha.

#4. Adolf Hitler Character Appearances in IMDB Spreadsheet
Is this a bit of a social barometer for how the world is feeling? Although it’s mostly barebones stats, there were quite a few Hitler appearances over the last 2 years.

#5. A Smaller Player Mounts Must-See Events
The scam that is Monster (cables/headphones) justifies their lavish celebrity outings at CES (electronics tradeshow).

#6. 7 Ways to Get Past Tough Situations Quickly
Prior to this, I had my own way of sort of getting over shit… and elements of it are seen here. Always look forward and discount any notion of fairness, just find the lesson, absorb it and move on… repeat many times over the course of your life.

#7. Skin Deep: Nutrtion and Good Skin
It’s funny, the guy sort of contradicts himself. He says stay away from fats, yet recommends the paleo diet which is definitely not afraid of fats in their diet. Stay away from the processed shit and good skin is the by-product. Grains are processed!!!

#8. The Sex Cult of Venice Beach
This is a fucked-up read. Everybody jokes about bodybuilders being gay or “pay for gay” where they do it for some extra cash… but the way this whole thing plays out is crazy. Essentially, it’s a huge drug-infused orgy behind the scenes of bodybuilding.

#9. White Man’s Ice Is Colder
Even the black man discriminates against his own race when it comes to Hip-Hop industry associates. Article from the one and only Combat Jack who talks about how black execs throughout Hip-Hop are unfairly presented as being con artists while their white counterparts are never subjected to this claims.

#10. Who’s Sleeping Now?
An interesting outlook that highlights the fact that China is doing a great job in promoting alternative and more efficient energy resources and how the bureaucratic bullshit for these initiatives are much smoother than in America.

#11. The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
With new technologies defining the digital landscape every few years, are we set to create generation gaps more frequently based on all these things entering our lives? Even within 3 years, services like Twitter have changed things up big time.

#12. What About George
A heartwarming story of George, a longtime worker at a small independent hardware store in New York who’s autism has become a useful tool that has ensured him a job over various ownership changes.

#13. Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School?
Holy fuck this pretty much sums up my way of thinking. Not saying I’m some revolutionary thinker, but I’ve always felt that quantifiable measures were too far to one extreme and that you really needed to find general themes over various instances to get a good understanding and overview of how to tackle problems in life. As well, seeing things from multiple angles and leaving no stone unturned, all by-products of any open mind are essential to problem solving.

#14. Purported Interview with Facebook Employee Details Use of “Master Password” / Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee
The two articles are related with the 2nd one being a look into Facebook and how it works on a behind the scenes look. I’m still not all that worried about privacy… until my sex tape leaks whooooooops.

#15. Illegal Ivory Trade Thrives in Africa
Leave it to the ignorant Chinese once again. China’s making huge in-roads into Africa and with it comes both tourism and workers who are looking to make some $$$ exporting ivory back to China.

#16. Military Is Awash in Data From Drones
A tool used frequently by play-by-play analysts for pro sports, look for features such as this to make their way into military video data. But the important feature down the line will be the ability to source out particular points of interest such as ammunitions, weapons, women, children etc without the help of a human at the controls.

#17. The Americanization of Mental Illness
America’s ground-breaking research in psychological health has had some undesirable consequences as we see less-educated cultures and countries essentially make an American definition their own. The case study is a girl who died of Anorexia in Hong Kong and how virtually overnight the population of HK was given the full scoop on the disease. Cultural differences often come into play and nobody was sure why it would be a prevalent illness in Hong Kong, they just incorporated American research and applied it blindly to answer Hong Kong’s problems. As well, it appears as though the way you spin mental health issues as being innate or being based on your surroundings has an effect on how people view it.

#18. Arsène Wenger says Arsenal pair should remain at Africa Cup of Nations
The real reason I support Arsenal is cause of Wenger and here are his words of wisdom regarding the tragedy of the Togo x Angolan rebel attack a few days ago.

#19. From Japan, a Lethal Leading Lady
Japan’s video game industry has by far been one of the countries greatest cultural exports aside from porn and anime. Funny enough, all of Japan’s best known video game characters are all non-Japanese in background like Link, Mario, Sonic etc.

#20. Chad Ochocinco, the N.F.L. Leader in Attention
Learn some new shit everyday, never heard of this cat but he’s pretty bold. He set aside $100K USD for the season to pay for any fines he was planning to incur for his wild antics.

#21. In Search of an Archive of Warhol’s Era
Warhol’s fulltime, live-in photographer may have got his photo negatives jacked…

#22. What a Desolate Tibetan Buddhist Monastery Taught Me About Happiness
I’d be contradictory if I adopted this philosophy of cutting out happiness x “things”… but if you are conscious of your relationship with your products/things, that is important and a positive step. What’s the one thing that you FEEL you need everyday… Crackberry? Gain your freedom back and sever that almighty connection.

#23. Reid Apologizes for “Negro Dialect” Comment
How ignorant can you be? Telling Obama his rise to prominence is cause he’s light-skinned and he doesn’t speak in ebonics unless the situation calls for it? GTFO