January 2010
43 posts
Pakistani children learning kung fu to stay safe &... →
“There are now around 200 kung fu centres in the country and many are located in areas where the army is fighting the Taliban.” (via BBC News)
“The zealots of the Church and State
Shall ne’er my mortal foes be;
But...”
– Robert Burns, “I Murder Hate”
Happy Robert Burns Day, all.
Nisan & Nemutan →
“Nisan had a real-life girlfriend who left him, something Nemutan isn’t likely to do.” (via NYTimes.com)
She pretends to be dead or missing people →
“A 28-year-old high school dropout from Montana, Esther Reed just wanted to stop being Esther Reed and to embark on a new, better life of her own design. She was pursuing the American Dream, with a twist: Rather than forge a new identity from scratch, she would steal someone else’s and remake it to suit her own needs.” (picture of Esther Reed next to impersonated missing girl...
“Paris, it’s not the City of Lights anymore. It goes to sleep at 11.”
– Nicolas Dechambre, The New York Times
The paintings of Allison Schulnik →
Never felt like I was reacting to the paint as much as the image until I saw this gallery (via boooooom.com)
“I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.”
– Dilbert by Scott Adams (via Emmy Rossum)
Rythm Mastr by Kerry James Marshall →
WatchA Golden Girls face paint art video by James Kuhn
Ningen: Bigfoot's Antarctic cousin →
“Similar apologies to Cow Vertebrae, for making you into cool candlestick...”
– “An Open Letter to the Inanimate Objects in My Apartment That Just Sat There While I Was Heartbroken” by Stef Willen
“‘I like her,’ Rolph says. ‘But I don’t know if she’s crazy. Or...”
– “Safari” by Jennifer Egan
Hollow Earth →
“According to the Hollow Earth hypothesis, the planet Earth is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space….. It also features in some present-day pseudoscientific and conspiracy theories.”
The Man Who Never Was →
“A historian claims to have conclusively proved the identity of the “Man Who Never Was”, whose body was used in a spectacular plot to deceive the Germans over the invasion of Sicily in the Second World War…”