china blog
hey gang, in my precious few internet breaths, i'm going to be posting some items at Magnificent Foreign Dream during my stay in china this summer. have a look at it if you have a moment. xie xie.
Sphere: Related ContentSunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
this is more confusing than amusing.
saw it on boinboing
hilarious. kinda boring after awhile...but nobody has posted for a while. i'll end the drought now.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
You'll do a heck of a job, Baroody
Bush golden boy Michael Baroody, manufacturer lobbyist, to "protect" consumer rights as head of Consumer Product Safety Commission. NYTimes excerpt:
Experts in executive compensation said it was unusual for someone to be paid under a severance agreement for voluntarily leaving to take a top position at another organization.Yay, a freebee. Sphere: Related Content
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Monday, May 14, 2007
let's improve our vocabulary of ethnic slurs
unless you're a fucking flapdragon, that is.
link
Sunday, May 13, 2007
if you like david cross then you'll love this!! lol ttyl
originally from freewilliamsburg.com.
Friday, May 11, 2007
drinky the crow show
Spamtrap installation
this installation is sweet, but what about reading the messages before they're destroyed? poor king josef mtabo in niger won't get the money he needs to pay back loans for his country's failing health insurance programs.
"Spamtrap" is an interactive installation piece the prints, shreds and blacklists spam email.Sphere: Related Content
"Spamtrap" - watch the video
Thursday, May 10, 2007
This guy, terrorist, released by US
A few days ago from the BBC:
Posada Carriles: "I've always believed in the armed struggle"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4558777.stm
Anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles has posed a double headache for the US: his alleged crimes relate to Cuba and its ally Venezuela, and he is a former CIA employee.
The 79-year-old is wanted by both Latin American states for masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, in which 73 died.
He is also being investigated for the 1997 bombing on a hotel in the Cuban capital, Havana, which killed an Italian tourist.
Jailed in Venezuela in 1976 after being found guilty of bombing the Cuban plane, in 1985 Posada escaped.
Charges dropped
Twenty years later, in May 2005, he was detained by US immigration officials after allegedly entering the country illegally, via Mexico.
In 2007, a US judge's decision to dismiss charges of immigration fraud against him have angered Cuba and Venezuela who are both continuing to push for his extradition.
The authorities in Havana describe Posada as "the Bin Laden of the Hemisphere".
They have accused the US of double standards in its war on terror and of protecting the Cuban suspect due to his status - and the secrets he may know - as a former CIA employee.
Some Cuban exiles hostile to the communist government in Havana regard Posada as a hero, said Pepe Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation.
"He's been fighting one of the worst tyrannies this continent has experienced," Mr Hernandez told AP news agency.
Assassination plot
Before his detention in Miami, Posada, who was born in Cuba but has Venezuelan citizenship, insisted his "only objective" was to fight for Cuba's "freedom".
Reports suggest he was involved in operations against leftists across Latin America over the decades, from Guatemala to El Salvador.
According to declassified US government documents, he once worked for the CIA. The papers also reveal that an FBI informer "all but admitted" that Posada was one of those behind the plane bombing.
In an interview for the Miami Herald newspaper, Posada denied any involvement in the plane attack but declined to confirm or deny involvement in other violence.
In August 2004, Panama granted him a pardon over a plot to assassinate President Castro during a visit by the Cuban leader to Panama in 2000.
The US authorities have refused requests for Posada's extradition, saying he might be tortured, and failed to find takers when they suggested sending him to a country other than Cuba or Venezuela.
It's on Democracy Now today.
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007
DOHAR, lord of beasts
i love the raacon, dough-har, eagle hawk (which is obviously a crow), and the sweet metal drumming when mountain dog attacks bridge troll.
Friday, May 04, 2007
QubeTV
YouTube's political correctness getting you down? Now there's an alternative. QubeTV.
I'd be more verbose, but Jamon's just arrived at my parents' house in a PT Cruiser.
I know this is a blog about politics, music, art, etc. But I am in medical school, and like most medical students, I tend to believe that the world revolves around (me, and) the obscure diseases I am studying. While memorizing the irrelevant details of a particular parasitology lecture, I came across this diagram in my professor's lecture. A lame and outdated artistic rendering of toxoplasma gondii infection, but still one of the least disturbing things I have looked at today. I am not sure which part of this classic drawing appeals to me most-the unashamed cat, staring straight ahead whilst shitting out parasites, or the pleasant and slightly anrodgynous guy happily wolfing down said organisms. Or maybe it is the contemplative woman who is emptying her cartoon cat's infectious feces, quietly unaware of the giant mutant fetus that dangles by its umbilical cord on the outside of her body.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
think progress
Think Progress is a great site full of multimedia aimed at promoting progressive viewpoints. a sample:
Tony Snow challenged on Bush hypocrisy over an acceptable level of violence. This was the exchange at today’s White House press briefing:
Sphere: Related ContentQUESTION: In October of 2004 John Kerry said, “We have to get to the place where we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance.” The president said he couldn’t disagree more. Cheney called this naive and dangerous, and part of the pre-9/11 mindset. So does the president now have a pre-9/11 mindset?
SNOW: No, the president does not have a pre-9/11 mindset. And the fact is — I’ll have to go back and take a look, but my recollection is that there was an attempt to, kind of, minimize some of the security challenges. But I don’t want to put words in Senator Kerry’s mouth without looking back at the 2004 debate.
r.i.p. herbet kornfeld
a moment of silence for a fallen brother...
Sphere: Related ContentPOYNETTE, WI—Foul play is suspected in the death of an accounts receivable supervisor for a regional office-supply company, sheriff's deputies reported Tuesday.
Herbert F. Kornfeld, 34, was an alleged accounting gang leader considered by law enforcement to be a key player in a series of ongoing office worker turf wars. He was found dead Monday morning in the third-floor copy room of Midstate Office Supply, his employer of 12 years.
"We believe the victim was assaulted after hours Friday by an unknown individual or individuals," a Columbia County sheriff's departmaent spokesman said. "Though autopsy results are still pending, we believe the victim suffered fatal head trauma after his face was immobilized against the glass of a photocopier and repeatedly struck with the machine's cover."
Midstate Office Supply vice-president Howard Dinwiddie is expected this week to name accounts receivable assistant Irving Weinbaum, 23, as Kornfeld's successor.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
super mario bros: frustration
i know that i already emailed it to you guys, but here it is for posterity.
music + science
great Seed magazine article on music + science with david byrne of talking heads fame, and now accomplished solo visual, music, and new media artist, and daniel levitin, the mcgill university professor of behavioral neuroscience and music...
read on at seedmagazine.com Sphere: Related ContentDAVID BYRNE: So, in the penultimate sentence of your book, you write that music is a better tool than language for arousing feelings and emotions.
This ties into what we were discussing a few months ago, about music and visual art bypassing the filters that language seems to get snagged on, in emotionally affecting you.
DANIEL LEVITIN: Yes.
DB: When somebody tells us what this song is about, or what this painting is about, we're kind of stuck because talking about the art, and the art itself, are almost separate areas. The music seems to have straight access to the so-called "reptile brain," and we feel it immediately. But often it's also touching all kinds of other parts of the brain. If it has lyrics, there's language in it. If it has a strong rhythmic element it's touching what you would call the motor parts of the brain and muscle. All kinds of stuff is involved. How do you think this all happens?
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