busy, busy, busy

You call that a weekend?

 Kate Brigham did her MFA thesis at the Massachusetts College of Art on Decoding Visual Language Elements in News Content. It examines how image selection, cropping, and rendering affect news pereception. The interactive demo is cool.

 What Is Victoria's Secret?

 Even the Times has caught on to that Nebraska scene.

 From the Department of Defense, the ground rules for being embedded (pdf).

 That Ms. Barb Palser is quoted in this Wired article about trans-national media. Here is that great thinker's most recent AJR column, about internet style.

 The new Don DeLillo novel is out: Cosmopolis.