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2012: The End Of The World? | Information Is Beautiful

Divided Minds Come to Different Ends. (BUT DO WE CARE?)... more

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Contains Graphic Material: Body-Conscious Tees

While we both believe that quality and shape rule all, when it comes to dressing your... more

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The Top 50 Typography Blogs

Typography remains one of the most integral lynchpins of both graphic and web design.... more

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The Hands Of Time

Does one take a 17 year old to a morgue? This is the story of a girl who sees the... more

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How to Create an Icon

How many icons do you have on your desktop? I'm betting you probably have a few,... more

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I Didn't Know I Had to Take a Dump

From the creators of TLC's "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" comes a new series about... more

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Look What Came Out of My Vagina

Conor Knighton looks at Discovery's "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant" to learn how a... more

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infoMania: Best clips from the week of Aug. 13

This week on infoMania the health care debate takes an unhealthy turn, we show you how... more

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Slackluster: The Twitter Film

The world's first Twitter film (or at least, the first that I've ever seen.) This... more

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Mirò, graphic arts and the quest for poetry

Now on display at the Argonese Castle in Otranto is a selection of the Spanish... more

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heinz edelmann 1934 - 2009

german graphic designer and illustrator heinz edelmann, best known for his work as... more

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Iran - Students Shot While Protesting

Iranian students were shot while protesting in Iran after a suspicious outcome to the... more

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Iranian Woman killed While Protesting - Graphic

A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by... more

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The Difference Between Boring and Dull

"There is very little that playwrights, film directors, fiction editors and... more

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Gory Easter Plays Miss the Point of the Gospels

"This Easter weekend, tens of thousands of Christians across the country will turn out for Passion plays, dramatic portrayals focusing on the last week of the life of Jesus Christ. Many are tiny church pageants with casts of 12 disciples, a Jesus of Nazareth, and perhaps a couple of Roman centurions, all wearing bed sheets with nylon ropes tied around their waists. Others, such as the musical Tetelestai in Columbus, Ohio, and the Topeka Passion Play in Kansas, are semiprofessional events that hosting churches have perfected over the course of multiyear runs. But the most well-attended are Bible spectaculars that would make Cecil B. DeMille swoon, featuring immense casts and crews who pull off gritty depictions of first-century capital punishment and Vegas-y musical numbers.

Like The Passion of the Christ, these productions (most of which predate Mel Gibson's film) focus on the severity of Jesus' suffering in death. The moments of beating and crucifixion are sparse in the Gospel accounts, but modern Passion plays match our culture's taste for visual realism. The audience viscerally experiences each of the 39 lashes delivered onto Jesus' body and each of the four stakes driven into his limbs. Christians have long dwelled on the details of the suffering of Christ, but with today's theater techniques, nothing has to be left to the imagination.

there are also other Jesus stories to tell—including the ones Jesus shared. One famous Gospel phrase is (in the Latin Vulgate) compelle intrare, meaning "compel them to come in." The words come from a stirring parable Jesus told about a rich man who sends invitations for a fabulous dinner party, only to have no one accept. So the rich man has his servants round up "the poor and crippled and blind and lame," ending his pronouncement with a rhetorical flourish: "Compel them to come in." (St. Augustine co-opted the phrase, making it a theological basis for state-sponsored acts against heretics.)

It's Easter. Spring is here, though the calendar doesn't quite match the weather in many places. With the fast of Lent over, churches hoping to share their beliefs could take Jesus' parable as a suggestion: Throw a dinner. Make it lavish. "Go out to the highways and the hedges," as the rich man said, and invite the poor, the crippled, the blind, the lame. What kind of story would that tell?""This Easter weekend, tens of thousands of Christians across the country will turn out... more