Sunday, September 30, 2007
One of the all time greatest poets was born 800 years ago today.
From
BBC NEWS - The roar of Rumi - 800 years on:
“For many years now, the most popular poet in America has been a 13th-century mystical Muslim scholar.
Translations of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi’s - better known as Rumi - verse are hugely popular and [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
From
A Map of Russia’s Third Empire (2053) on strange maps:
It’s the year 2053, and the world looks very different from today. There are no more than 5 superstates left on the face of the planet:
• an American Federation, covering the whole of North and South America;
• an Indian Confederation, consisting of present-day India and [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
From
One-Child Foreign Policy:
“Military analysts are always talking about strategy. Often they are proposing one that they have just invented and naturally think will be the solution to the nation’s security problems. The present time, filled as it is with the threat of Islamist terrorism and with the debacle of the Iraq War, is especially marked [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Times Online:
“It was a column last year by Rosie Boycott, the writer and broadcaster, that first sounded an alarm bell. She was reeling from having read one of the younger lads mags (read by schoolboys as well as young adult males), in which every woman who had achieved something in her own right – [...]
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Spotted this image on Strange Maps…
Which reminded me of this advert I spotted in Belgrade…
Friday, September 28, 2007
From Spiegel Online:
An Italian fashion chain has stoked controversy with an advertisement featuring a naked anorexic woman. The ad, which is intended to raise awareness about eating disorders, is timed to coincide with Milan fashion week. [SPIEGEL ONLINE]
As a way of raising awareness about eating disorders, it works. But if it is targeting teenage [...]
Friday, September 28, 2007
The girl on the left is Minja. I have no idea who the other girl is, but she is gorgeous.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Descent, by Carlos and Jason Sanchez: “
This particular photo, titled Descent by Carlos and Jason Sanchez is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity and starkness. Link
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(Via Neatorama.)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
The Forgotten Fire
On October 8th, 1871, the small Wisconsin logging town of Peshtigo was consumed by one of the most severe and woefully under-reported fires in human history.
…In the midst of that quiet Sunday evening, the tiny township was totally annihilated - cha
(tags: History disaster)
gethuman 500 database (United Kingdom version)
Get through to a human [...]
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Bravo Bollinger!
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial appearance at Columbia University yesterday began with harsh, combative words from protesters, politicians and even the university president - who introduced the hard-line leader to a packed auditorium as “a petty and cruel dictator” with “a fanatical mindset.”“Today, I feel all the weight of the modern civilized world yearning [...]