Read Benoit Assou-Ekotto’s astonishing attack on football’s celebrity culture
“We kick a ball around and we earn 100,000, 200,000 or even 300,000 euros a week. We don’t improve the world. It’s not like we invented hot water. We just kick a ball.
“But sometimes when these guys go out, you’d think they were rock stars.
“I could understand that you wear dark glasses at night time when you do open-heart surgery and save lives, but not if you’re a footballer.”
This Hotel Has A Lot Of Rooms
Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP and other major polluters
Cosmopolitan social democracy
Angela Merkel’s recent denunciation of German multiculturalism marks another step in the tightening of ties between the market-liberal right and ethnic-national tribalism, evident in other European countries and in the US (most obviously with the rise of the Tea Party). In part at least, this is a result of weakness. The positive appeal of market liberalism has declined a fair bit since the triumphalist decades of the 1980s and 1990s, and the global financial crisis exposed the failure of its theoretical basis.
Terrifying Beauty of Urban Decay
If This Falls Out I’m Renouncing Technology
Duge noge za…
There really is something about those Balkan LP covers from the Sixties… Oh, Svetlana…
Singapore might cane American who overstayed visa
Singapore, eh? When I saw the headline in my RSS reader (which did not include the word “Singapore”), I was so certain it would have to be in, say, Saudi Arabia. Singapore: our favorite authoritarian liberal poster boy of a pint sized statelet? Jeez.
Rigeligt med smør
“It shows how fast I did simple arithmetic problems (e.g., 2*0, 9-6, 7*9) before and after I started eating 1/2 stick (60 g) of butter every day. The x axis covers about a year. The butter produced a long-lasting improvement of about 30 msec.”
Richie Jackson – And Now Transworld Skateboarding Video Part
Do not try this at home…
The Cellar Door » Scrivener 2.0 Release Date
Official release date time:
Scrivener 2.0 will be released for sale on the 1st November.
Yes, that’s a week later than planned, but fear not. We’ll be releasing a preview copy for download on the 25th October, so you’ll be able to start using it in just a few days. We need to take the extra week to add some finishing touches, that’s all. The preview copy will be short on a few things (such as project templates) which will be added for the on-sale version on 1st November, but we want to make sure that those participating in National Novel Writing Month this year are able to get their hands on Scrivener 2.0 a week before NaNoWriMo begins.
So, I’d better get back to those project templates and finishing touches right now…
Yes, yes, yes,
The Funniest Unintentionally Sexual Album Covers Ever
Witness Testifies He Left Al-Qaeda Over Payment of Wife’s Care
A former al-Qaeda member testified at a terrorism trial in New York that he left the group after it failed to pay for his pregnant wife’s medical care and later began cooperating with a U.S. probe of two embassy bombings.
O cio da terra – Chico Buarque e Milton Nascimento
Bellissima…
On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 – Rickie Lee Jones
The most as you’ll ever go
Is back where you used to know
If grown-ups could laugh this slow
Where as you watch the hour snow
Years may go by
So hold on to your special friend
Here, you’ll need something to keep her in :
“Now you stay inside this foolish grin … ”
Though any day your secrets end
Then again
Years may go by
You saved your own special friend
‘Cuz here you need something to hide her in
And you stay inside that foolish grin
When everyday now secrets end
Oh and then again
Years may go by
Picturing the Crisis
Mapping Stereotypes
lens culture: Helen Levitt
