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Newly appointed Chief Kuhnian Disruptive Officer at Joybricks. Former corporate minesweeper. Music lover, painter, aspiring filmmaker some day
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no partner for america
—via comicallyvintage:via: I’ll Never Have Another Partner!
knot a bad girl
Original art The Brass Halo by R. A. Maguire. Check out his gallery at R. A. Maguire Cover Art ,
—via thatsmyskull:lacontessa
vruz: oh knot I might!
Keith Haring’s Houston St. and Bowery Mural (recreation)
2008-05-04 - 2008-12-21
vruz: fortunately, not everything that’s lost is lost forever.
“ My theological perspective is that E.T. life would actually make a mockery of the very reason Christ came to die for our sins, for our redemption, the entire focus of creation is mankind on this Earth.
Gary Bates head of Creation Ministries International, giving his thoughts on the Vatican’s astrobiology conference. (via WashingtonPost.com) (via atheistramblings:danielholter sez:Well, finally… the head of Creation Ministries International and I found something on which we agree.
vruz: WAR ON EXTRATERRESTRIALS!!! GODLESS HEATHENS COMMUNISTS ETC. !!!
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Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said this, and I quote: “It’s important for us all to remember here in Australia that Afghanistan has been a training ground for terrorists worldwide, a training ground also for terrorists in South-East-Asia, reminding us of the reasons that we are in the field of combat and reaffirming our resolve to remain committed to that cause.”
There is no truth in this statement. It is the equivalent of his predecessor John Howard’s lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Shortly before Kevin Rudd made that statement, American planes bombed a wedding party in Afghanistan. At least sixty people were blown to bits, including the bride and groom and many children. That’s the fifth wedding party attacked, in our name.
The prime minister was standing outside a church on a Sunday morning when he made his statement. No reporter challenged him. No one said the war was a fraud: that it began as an American vendetta following 9/11, in which not a single Afghan was involved. No one put it to Kevin Rudd that our perceived enemy in Afghanistan were introverted tribesmen who had no quarrel with Australia and didn’t give a damn about south-east Asia and just wanted the foreign soldiers out of their country. Above all, no one said: “Prime Minister, There is no war on terror. It’s a hoax. But there is a war of terror waged by governments, including the Australian government, in our name.” That wedding party, Prime Minister, was blown to bits by one the latest smart weapons, such as the Hellfire bomb that sucks the air out of the lungs. In our name.
Z Space - John Pilger (via clingtomymouth: moderndancers:jhnbrssndn)
vruz: trying to understand aussie politics. is rudd australia’s blair ?
Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer
—via laugharne:
WASHINGTON—At a press conference Monday, President Obama announced that he had appointed legendary comic book writer Alan Moore as the official biographer of his time in the White House. “As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office,” Obama said of the author of Watchmen and From Hell, whom he reportedly chose over others on a short list of potential biographers that included Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Bob Woodward. “I look forward to seeing the kinds of subplots he will surely weave throughout the main narrative of my presidency, and how he’ll tie them all back together at the end in a way that just elevates the thing to a whole other level. God, that guy is the master.” Although Obama has not yet settled on a publisher for his White House biography, he is reportedly leaning toward DC’s Vertigo imprint for its creator-friendly ethos, high production values, and willingness to publish content for mature readers.
God listens…
—via iisabelle:stevejerkel)favourite meme of all time pretty much
vruz: you get that, Liz Cheney!
Camus in the dark - Loomis Dean, LIFE
—via i12bent:
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.” - The Plague, 1947
Thomas Milo, 2nd. Dr Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital Typography
—via Typophile, h/t unburyingthelead
The second Dr. Peter Karow Award for Font Technology & Digital Typography has been awarded to Thomas Milo for the development of the ACE layout engine (the heart of the Tasmeem plugin for InDesign ME) for Arabic text setting.
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‘Arabic script is the result of a millenium and a half of intense and competent design development. Like for Latin script, computer technology should facilitate such a heritage. The first line presents DecoType philosophy in a nutshell. In black, the result. In colors, the letters. In outlines, the structure. The typeface is DecoType’s Nastaliq, the language is Persian. The second line, for comparison, shows the same text in OpenType. The typeface is Adobe Arabic.’
Linotype Really No. 2
unburyingthelead sez: Via my job, this blog, and this blog, I’m starting to get into typography. On a personal level.
Virtual Alice
—via John Coulthart, Feuilleton
John sez: No, I didn’t go searching for this, I had my fill of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland last month. The British Library website is a lot more amenable than it used to be for the casual browser, and one of its newer sections is a small collection of what they call virtual books which enable you to leaf through some of their exclusive volumes. The pages above are from the original handwritten manuscript, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, from which the printed book was later adapted.
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