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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Professional Protester, Jihadi-style · snapped shot

 
You may have seen this clown above before. We know him as “Rage Boy” and he is trotted out by the mass media literally every time there is an “Offended Muslims” story (which is nearly every day - cartoons, naughty popes, Salman’s knighthood…the list is getting looooong).
Rage Boy operates out of Sringar, India and [...]

Mormon

mormon

Stunning Swiss Mountain House

 
    
Link to Plataforma Arquitectura » Casa de vacaciones en el Rigi / AFGH

links for 2007-06-22

The thorny path to enlightenment
Buddhists bringing ancient faith to U.S. at odds over role of martial arts in Shaolin — former allies deeply divided on physical, spiritual aspects of the misunderstood culture
(tags: buddhism chi qi zen shaolin)

‘The middle of nowhere’ by Edward Luttwak | Prospect Magazine
Western analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of [...]

The mighty Ekranoplan

From English Russia: 

 
An “ekranoplan” literally “screen plane” is a vehicle resembling an aircraft, but operating solely on the principle of ground effect. Ground effect vehicles (GEV) fly above any flat surface, with the height above ground dependent upon the size of the vehicle.
During the Cold War, ekranoplans were sighted for years on the [...]

‘Beautiful Evidence’ Author Edward Tufte and the Triumph of Good Design — New York Magazine

 I am a long time admirer and reader of Edward Tuft (see previous posts here, here and here).
Now the writer of classics like Beautiful Evidence and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is profiled in both the New York Magazine and Stanford magazine.
If you have an interest at all in design, information presentation,  semiology, teaching/training [...]

links for 2007-06-21

Yugo Fan Club :: Indeks
Only in Serbia - a Yugo fan club.
(tags: funny serbia srbija)

links for 2007-06-20

The New Atlantis - Brave New World at 75 - Caitrin Nicol
Huxley’s brilliant and prophetic novel was written 75 years ago. Of all the dystopian visions of the 20th Century, it is the most accurate
(tags: futurism History philosophy psychology sociology)

JOURNEY OF MANKIND - The Peopling of the World
Amazing animated exhibition of human migrations from 150,000 [...]

mojada

mojada

The blob

The blob:

[Image: The Brooklyn sludge slowly surfaces... Photo by Jeff Riedel for New York Magazine].

The largest oil spill in American history is apparently: 1) in New York City, 2) nearly a century old, and 3) beginning to re-surface under Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
An article in New York Magazine this week dives head-first into the spill, asking us [...]