If you didn’t get your cold war military architecture fix from last week’s Swiss bunkers post, feast your eyes on this Soviet submarine base.
(link from co-blogger JMD)
Ilkka Kokkarinen translates an interesting post:
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The success of My emotional life is the World’s responsibility. If I don’t have a good time, the World is evil and guilty. More precisely, it is mean i.e. hostile. Let me call this the Basic Rule of the ethics of the religion of women.
Here we can see why anthropomorphizing [...]
If you’re using WP 2.0.3, and are as irritated as I was by the escaping bug that leaves backslashes behind when editing comments, this guy’s got a plugin fix.
The New York Post:
SMARTER CHARTER KIDS SCORING ABOVE STUDENTS AT NEARBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
July 20, 2006 — Charter schools in the city are vastly outperforming public schools in their neighborhoods, according to a bombshell state report obtained by The Post.
The just-released study by state Education Department found students in 11 of 16 city charter schools outscored [...]
Stanley Fish references Ann Althouse’s blog in an NYT article about Kevin Barrett, that “911 was an inside job” prof at UW, prompting an interesting response / discussion at Alhouse’s blog. Fish claims that the teaching (“teaching”) of any subject should be OK as long as one doesn’t cross the line into indoctrination:
Rather, the question [...]
Mark Hobbs photoblogs his stay in China. Pretty damn cool.
Radley Balko on the rise of the militarization of our police:
Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, [...]
If you had any doubts that we’re living in a science fiction movie:
The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players [...]
Today I accidentally bought a Black Cherry Vanilla coke, because it looks an awful lot like a Cherry coke.
OMFG what vile nastiness. More attention to labels is indicated.
Leo Fabrizio:
For over four years, I have developed a photographic documentary work on Swiss fortified constructions – bunkers. Each element of these photographs has a relation with Switzerland and particularly the mountain landscape that is an inherent part of our identity. The bunkers are a integral part of a finely developed popular defense military system [...]
David Warren, as dead-on as usual:
The whole point of the Geneva Conventions is to encourage legitimate soldiering, even under the pressures of war. It was written intentionally to exclude terrorists and other “informal” fighters, who do not wear uniforms or other clear markings, who arm themselves in exceptionally vicious ways, who target non-combatants as a [...]
I’ll buy all 21 of Buda Musique’s excellent Ethiopiques series in one fell swoop.
Last Friday DJ John Staub (Tufts econ prof, I think) played an hour of selections from the series on Test Pattern, and it was all quite excellent. He’s posted some annotations here:
What Buda Musique is dubbing “The Golden Era of Modern [...]
The most recent Big Picture at Sorabji.com has a great Picasso quote.
UPDATE: Updated to permalink, which wasn’t available the day I blogged this.
I had a good experience today with 1-800-GOT-JUNK. They showed up on time (1 hr into a 2 hr window), quoted me a price, did all the heavy lifting, charged me the quoted price and were gone in an hour. They took away construction waste related to new front and back doors and [...]
ldopa links to a Slate article about Linklater’s Slacker. Best bit:
Teresa Taylor (played the infamous pap-smear-pushing Madonna fan): I played drums for the Butthole Surfers. I had gotten it into my head that I was some huge rock star and so I was like, “Well, I guess I’ll be in your little movie.”
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Taylor: [In that [...]
Stuart Brown, whose website came close to giving me an aneurysm (intentionally, I hope), cleverly notices that today’s trends are tomorrow’s cliches, except he tries to get ahead of the curve by claiming they’re already cliches. Except that well, some of them are apparently actually good*, unless you use them wrong, or too much:
8 Web [...]
LOL! Are you a blogoholic?
6. You have the skin color of a corpse
7. You would rather comment on blogs than talk to people face to face
8. You consider any story, idea or photo bloggable
9. You visit everyone on your blogroll at least once a day
10. You have 50 blog posts saved as drafts, none of [...]