Models without Makeup

I love sites like Photoshop Disasters, which showcases all sorts of professional (or I guess that should be "professional") Photoshop attempts gone wrong (additional fingers, heads that don’t fit bodies, stretched out features, etc., etc. – very entertaining).

In contrast to that trend - photoshopping models until they're hardly recognizable as humans, a trend that only adds to unrealistic body expectations - comes this exhibit, which shows models posing without any makeup. Hey! Guess what? They look like real women - which is to say, good.

HT: kottke

New Radiohead Song

In memory of the last British veteran of World War I to die, Radiohead has released Harry Patch (stream).

Allegedly, there will be no more Radiohead albums in the near term, so their music will come out like this, in dribs and drabs. That makes me sad.

Foot Patrol

I pay attention to almost everything Peter Moskos says. He’s a Harvard PhD in sociology and teaches at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice. He blogs about things cop- and bike-related, and his mind (like so many thinkers I find engaging) works obliquely from mine. He blogs here. I recommend his book Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District, which just came out in paperback.

One of my favorite sections of the book describes how 911 services and car patrol made neighborhoods less safe. Moskos advocates foot patrol as an old-fashioned solution, and has a new article on the subject at The American.

Moskos also gets into how poorly thought out incentives lead to the arrest of more black men - no discriminatory behavior necessary - since when officers must fulfill quotas, drug corners make for easy picking.

Inspiring Leadership

I found this quote in a Netflix powerpoint deck about its corporate culture:

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You go, little prince! If the deck is truly reflective of the culture at Netflix, it sounds like a terrific place to work (unless, I suppose, you work on the line processing DVDs all day).