Thursday, September 28, 2006
mayor rama’s wacky colour scheme
I heard about this from an Albanian friend the other night. There are several pictures on Flick of the major’s garish buildings that have turned Tirana into a cartoon.
Here is another.
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Deep love in the subway
Something fascinating about this picture and the story the photographer tells about it.
Is that a bandage on the red head girls right wrist? A recent suicide attempt?
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
BBC NEWS | Europe | Agency makes breaking up easier
(tags: sex relationships contemporary_culture business)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Special report: ‘Myths of British ancestry’ by Stephen Oppenheimer | Prospect Magazine October 2006 issue 127
Everything you know about British and Irish ancestry is wrong. Our ancestors were Basques, not Celts. The Celts were not wiped out by the Anglo-Saxons, in fact neither had much impact on the genetic stock of these islands
(tags: anthropology culture [...]
Sunday, September 24, 2006
My film-maker pal Steve Hurford has made video to answer the question we are asked so frequently: Why do you live in Belgrade?
Check out Gorgeous Belgrade Hotties [Safe for Work Myspace Video]
This is a superb short video.
Get this video and more at MySpace.com
Saturday, September 23, 2006
The Spy Who Loved Us - The New Yorker
The double life of Time’s Saigon correspondent during the Vietnam War. A fascinating story.
(tags: history espionage spies)
President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly 2006
Excellent speech (content).
(tags: politics long_emergency Islam islamism war warfare USA)
Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Force admits rejecting white men
A police force has admitted [...]
Thursday, September 21, 2006
From “NO WIN - The Boston Globe”
If the “global war on terror” is unwinnable as currenty conceived, what is to be done? For the United States, here’s a five-point alternative strategy.
First, terminate actions that are self-evidently counterproductive, above all by extricating ourselves in an orderly way from Iraq.
Second, revive in modified form the Cold War [...]
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Jill Greenberg: Monkey Portraits:
“Known for her celebrity portraits and more recently for her brilliant portraits of crying children, Jill is an accomplished photographer who became enchanted by our biological cousins and their pure emotional expression…
Monkey Portraits is available from Amazon
(Via Cool Hunting.)
Thursday, September 21, 2006
From Arts & Letters Daily (19 Sep 2006): “The game is now clear: any dispute between Christianity and Islam must follow rules set by political Islamism. Obey them or risk violence and death… more … more … more The West, says Sam Harris, really is at risk from Muslim extremist”
(Via Arts & Letters Daily - [...]