“The right word to call bandits is bandits. There is no religious content.” Medvedev said he agreed with Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov that rebels should no longer be called Islamic extremists. (tags: Medvedev Kadyrov Tchetchenie Chechnya Russia russie bandits …)
Wikipedia Will Limit Changes on Articles About Living People Officials at the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit in San Francisco that governs Wikipedia, say that within weeks, the English-language Wikipedia will begin imposing a layer of editorial review on articles about living people. (tags: wikipedia censorship limitation moderation utopia …)
A 6-year-old locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia. She is among the rarest of the rare: a child seemingly born mentally ill. (tags: interesting health psychology children kids brain sad schizophrenia hallucinations healthcare …)
Have you ever wondered if you’re truly happy? Existentialism by Apokalips, the webcomic (tags: existentialism Apokalips webcomic webcomics happy comic comics strip …)
Serialz.to suddenly vanishes as if it never existed. Recently it has come to my attention that long-time warez serial site serialz.to has simply vanished from the internet, but this is not what makes it worthy of my time writing and submitting this journal entry. The fact of the matter is that by vanish, i mean [...]
Not a good week to be a BitTorrent tracker A Dutch judge has ordered Bittorrent site Mininova to remove every last torrent that links to copyrighted materials. The site has 3 months to comply. If it doesn't meet the deadline, Mininova's operators will face a penalty of up to 5 million Euros, or about $7.1 [...]
Paris Syndrome leaves Japanese tourists in shock Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday. (tags: culture japan article france japanese paris psychology tourism shock funny …)
Keyboard Cat papercraft tribute [photos and videos] The Keyboard Cat, in folded paper. (tags: fun funny keyboard diy paper papercraft keyboardcat papertoy cat origami cats …)
Curb Your Enthusiasm “Call For Captions” Contest In anticipation of the new season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” submit a caption and you could win a signed print of the illustration below plus a full set of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” DVDs. The winning entry will be featured in an advertisement in the September 21 issue of [...]
“The pit bull fraternity should be persuaded that their pets, once barbecued, are as delicious as crayfish or rare sirloin.” A heated debate has begun in New Zealand after a man killed and roasted his family's pit bull terrier, with the intention of eating it. (tags: pitbull dog newzealand nz pitbullterrier pet roast kill delicious [...]
The Nine Eyes of Google Street View – An image-based essay Photos from Google Street View by artist Jon Rafman (tags: art internet photo google photography images culture photos image maps documentary privacy googlemaps streetview essay street googlestreetview jonrafman view netart …)
Dinner at El Bulli A first person experience in comics and video format. (tags: blog video food travel cooking comics 2009 review europe restaurant comic dining elbulli spain barcelona el_bulli adria bulli …)
The games factory – How Mario, Tetris, Sonic, Pong were made A series of photographs from Marc Da Cunha Lopes ("aisakie") shows us the factory work behind the most iconic games of the past few decades: the smelting of Sonic's rings, the chiseling of the 1-Up mushroom, and the rubber-pressed rebounding blocks of Arkanoid. (tags: [...]
The Decline of Dubai After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the emirate's population grew at 7% annually and nearly $600 billion went into construction (the world's tallest building! the world's largest shopping mall! the biggest man-made island! an indoor ski resort!), reality has come rushing into view. (tags: dubai reality decline fall …)
How To Change Default Gmail Fonts and Use Stylish Text In Mails Gmail by default gives 11 font choices which are more than enough for an average user. But sometimes we would like to have stylish fonts used in our mails to impress our friends or standard font mail for business communication. (tags: gmail mail [...]