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panel of experts in women’s reproductive...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:40:10 -0400

panel of experts in women’s reproductive rights

—via bubububble:wicked-grin:joyengel:generic1:igather

no partner for america —via comicallyvintage:via: I’ll...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:38:26 -0400

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....

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:35:36 -0400

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...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:24:05 -0400

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.

Ramsey Dau —via unburyingthelead

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:50:06 -0400

Ramsey Dau

—via unburyingthelead

"My theological perspective is that E.T. life would actually make a mockery of the very reason Christ..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:49:14 -0400

“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. !!!

"Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said this, and I quote: “It’s important for us all to remember..."

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:34:19 -0400

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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.

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- 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

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:57:04 -0400

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...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:55:59 -0400

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...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:47:43 -0400

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 &...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:46:33 -0400

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...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:41:18 -0400

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.

28 Years in the Implicate Order looping video by Pascual...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:17:42 -0400

28 Years in the Implicate Order

looping video by Pascual Sisto

—via BOOOOOOOM!

Virtual Alice —via John Coulthart, Feuilleton John sez:...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:00 -0400

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.

Dear Mr Beck [PDF, 4 Mb download] h/t Groklaw

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:54:02 -0400

Dear Mr Beck [PDF, 4 Mb download]

h/t Groklaw

Zeppelin engine —via .firelily:-vintagephoto

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:35 -0400

Zeppelin engine

—via .firelily:-vintagephoto

Photo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:57:22 -0400

Dr Jekyll et Sister Hyde! —via lacontessa sez: It’s...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:01:42 -0400

Dr Jekyll et Sister Hyde!

—via lacontessa sez: It’s probably utter crap, but I’m watching this on telly right now with the sound turned down and it’s really fun…

NIN Fans Demand Liz Cheney Apologize for Trent Reznor "Pathetic" Comment

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:08:49 -0400

vruz: in case you somehow stiill liked Liz Cheney, not only she defends the indefensible, in the process making herself an accomplice of her father’s wrongdoings, she’s also certifiably uncool and persona non-grata: she knows shit about music. heavy metal, Liz, really? I get it, the only real authority is the one granted by God almighty to representatives of the Cheney and Bush clans. “call me Princess Liz.” fuck you idiot, accomplice of war criminals.

—via twentyfourbit:

As previously reported, NIN’s Trent Reznor, Rage’s Tom Morello, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Roots, Rise Against, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne, and other famous musicians have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and released a string of statements condemning the use of music for torture at Gitmo. Well, it looks like the debate is heating up a bit:

Debra Burlingame, director of Keep America Safe, a political organization co-founded by Liz Cheney that focuses “on issues like troop levels, missile defense, detainees, and interrogation,” called Reznor and company’s political stand “pathetic,” telling the Washington Times:

It’s almost laughable to think that heavy metal bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have a moral authority on national security issues.

They’re worried about torture of hard-core terrorists? This is really something I would expect to read in the Onion.

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Gene Vincent — Spaceship to Mars (1962) vruz: space era...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:55:41 -0400

Gene Vincent — Spaceship to Mars (1962)

vruz: space era rockabilly: mars, tentacles and all.

via lacontessa:I heard this on the radio earlier this week and I’ve been singing it ever since. It’s silly and quite adorable and I now have a bit of a thing for Gene Vincent… To the youtubes!