October 19, 2007
Friday’s Random Ten - Ipod Broke
No random ten this week because my Ipod broke - I just found instructions to fix it, which I will attempt later. A pain in the keister.
Videos by Lou Reed and New Order
Entries from October 2007
October 19, 2007
PC World’s Top 100 Blogs
Surprisingly I didn’t not make PC World’s Top 100 Blogs. Shocking. But these fine blogs did:
boingboing.net
dethroner.com
marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com
neatorama.com
strangemaps.wordpress.com
we-make-money-not-art.com
October 19, 2007
Just Two Pig-fuckers Chewing the Fat
Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and friend
(ht to tbogg)
October 19, 2007
Pete Stark Speaks The Truth
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) is one of the few Democratic Congressmen with the sack of venom to take on the malicious Republican cowards. All Democratic Congressmen should be speaking this way about what is going on in the U.S.
October 18, 2007
Sea Creatures of the Celebes Sea
MANILA, Philippines - U.S. and Philippine scientists may have discovered new marine species in the world’s most biologically diverse region, their expedition leader said Tuesday.
Larry Madin, who led the Inner Space Speciation Project in the Celebes Sea south of the Philippines, said scientists had been to one of the world’s deep-ocean basins in search of [...]
October 17, 2007
A Treasure Ship Comes Under Attack
Exciting goings on off of Gibraltar yesterday:
A Spanish warship threatened to open fire on American treasure hunters yesterday as they tried to flee Gibraltar in the battle for a haul of gold and silver coins estimated to be worth half a billion dollars.
Amid rough seas, The Times watched from aboard the Odyssey Explorer as Spanish [...]
October 17, 2007
The Art of Sex
If one is in London between now and the end of January, one might want to check out a new exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.
From the BBC:
Seduced - Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now contains works spanning 2000 years, by some of the most famous artists in the world, showing human beings in [...]
October 17, 2007
The Art of Sharks
Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living at the Met for the next three years.
Alongside it will be The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer
October 17, 2007
Enlisted Men Speak Out
To believe that Americans, with an occupying force that long ago outlived its reluctant welcome, can win over a recalcitrant local population and win this counterinsurgency is far-fetched. As responsible infantrymen and noncommissioned officers with the 82nd Airborne Division soon heading back home, we are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasingly [...]
October 17, 2007
Captains Speak Out
Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles.
As Army captains who served in Baghdad and beyond, we’ve seen the corruption [...]
