Archive for April, 2007
Something that would be inconceivable in most parts of the world: Link.
For more evidence that the looneys in the Islamic world don’t speak for everyone, have a look at this amazing article from the Atlantic about being gay in Saudi Arabia: Link. It gives a rare peek into the double life that everyone has [...]
Something that would be inconceivable in most parts of the world: Link.
For more evidence that the looneys in the Islamic world don’t speak for everyone, have a look at this amazing article from the Atlantic about being gay in Saudi Arabia: Link. It gives a rare peek into the double life that everyone has [...]
If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, this will improve things greatly for you.
1. Install Greasemonkey, which is an extension that lets you get little scripts that modify individual webpages.
2. Install the YouTube Googler script. Now instead of YouTube videos playing in that little screen within the page, they take up [...]
If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, this will improve things greatly for you.
1. Install Greasemonkey, which is an extension that lets you get little scripts that modify individual webpages.
2. Install the YouTube Googler script. Now instead of YouTube videos playing in that little screen within the page, they take up [...]
Akiyoshi’s optical illusions are mesmerising. Link. Here are two examples (click them for bigger, more nauseating versions): My head hurts. I think Akiyoshi just blew my mind.
Akiyoshi’s optical illusions are mesmerising. Link. Here are two examples (click them for bigger, more nauseating versions): My head hurts. I think Akiyoshi just blew my mind.
The Onion has been running a video news program for a few weeks now: Link. I think it’s funny – though, given The Onion’s writing style, the real funniness doesn’t always hit you until after you’ve watched it.
Condoleezza Rice To Voyage East
Meanwhile, Onion Radio News is still going, and still funny:
Bomb-Sniffing Dog Gets 6-Cent [...]
1. “The Queen of Eyes” by The Soft Boys from Underwater MoonlightThe Soft Boys’ Underwater Moonlight is shaping up to be my favourite album of the year so far. It’s one of those rare albums where a few songs leap out at you on first listen, and then as you keep listening to it [...]
The Onion has been running a video news program for a few weeks now: Link. I think it’s funny – though, given The Onion’s writing style, the real funniness doesn’t always hit you until after you’ve watched it.
Condoleezza Rice To Voyage East
Meanwhile, Onion Radio News is still going, and still funny:
Bomb-Sniffing Dog Gets 6-Cent [...]
1. “The Queen of Eyes” by The Soft Boys from Underwater MoonlightThe Soft Boys’ Underwater Moonlight is shaping up to be my favourite album of the year so far. It’s one of those rare albums where a few songs leap out at you on first listen, and then as you keep listening to it [...]
The BBC News website ran a story in February last year with the classic headline, “Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat“. The Guardian reports that 14 months on, the goat story still frequently tops the list of most popular stories on the BBC website.
The Onion had a good story on a similar theme a [...]
The BBC News website ran a story in February last year with the classic headline, “Sudan man forced to ‘marry’ goat“. The Guardian reports that 14 months on, the goat story still frequently tops the list of most popular stories on the BBC website.
The Onion had a good story on a similar theme a [...]
Consider the way the media has handled the apparent double-suicide in Melbourne. Now consider this report from the American Association of Suicidology says:
Research finds an increase in suicide by readers or viewers when: …
A particular [suicide] death is reported at length or in many stories
The story of an individual death by suicide is placed [...]
O_____, who often comments on Brlogsbane, has his own blog titled My name’s not important. It’s mainly populated with dozens of original photos of great artworks around Europe. Here are a few (these are thumbnails; click for bigger ones):
Paul Cezanne, Uncle Dominique The Lawyer [1866]
Antoon Kruysen, Degel [1917]
Pierre Bonnard, In a Boat [...]
From Harper’s Index:
Percentage of Pakistanis and Indonesians who say that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified to defend Islam: 8Percentage of Americans who say that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified: 24
