Comics artist Chris Ware on French TV 2005 (english content starts a couple minutes in)
Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Beijing is on the hunt for bad translations. (WSJ)
For years, foreigners in China have delighted in the loopy English translations that appear on the nation's signs. They range from the offensive ("Deformed Man," outside toilets for the handicapped) to the sublime (on park lawns, "Show Mercy to the Slender Grass"). Last week, Beijing city officials unveiled a plan to stop the laughter. With hordes of foreign visitors expected in town for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing wants to cleanse its signs of translation nonsense. For the next eight months, 10 teams of linguistic monitors will patrol the city's parks, museums, subway stations and other public places searching for gaffes to fix.
Monday, February 19, 2007
An excellent Daily Kos article on the seemingly bizarre resurgence of geocentrism within the Christian right. The author thinks its a pretext to a movement designed to actively accelerate the Apocolypse.
Wikipedia on modern geocentrism.
There are an estimated 250,000 vintage American vehicles within Cuba, the largest island in the Caribbean and home to 11 million people. Some are relics rusting in the streets, but most continue to rumble along, a testimonial both to American manufacturing know-how and Cuban inventiveness.
A flickr set of cuban cars
A flickr set of cuban cars
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Friday, February 16, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Overheard (SFGate)
"I'm getting a dog on Saturday to replace my wife.'' (Man to man, overheard at Starbucks by Shirley Norton.)
"I'm getting a dog on Saturday to replace my wife.'' (Man to man, overheard at Starbucks by Shirley Norton.)
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
The U.S. sent tons of cash to Iraq. Literally. Not figuratively. On Pallets. With forklifts.
The question:
"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.
The GOP response?
"We are in a war against terrorists, to have a blame meeting isn't, in my opinion, constructive," said Rep. Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican.
The question:
"Who in their right mind would send 363 tons of cash into a war zone? But that's exactly what our government did," the California Democrat said during a hearing reviewing possible waste, fraud and abuse of funds in Iraq.
The GOP response?
"We are in a war against terrorists, to have a blame meeting isn't, in my opinion, constructive," said Rep. Dan Burton, an Indiana Republican.
It seems that there's a movement of fundies jumping on the big-energy anti-Global Warming bandwagon. While the Christian right's anti-intellectual stance has never been a secret, this descent into abject hatred of science and reason is phenomenal in its implications.
This truly amazing open letter to the faithful tells all. (pdf)
“It does not seem likely to me that God would set up the world to work in such a way that human beings would eventually destroy the earth by doing such ordinary and morally good and necessary things as breathing, building a fire to cook or keep warm, burning fuel to travel, or using energy for a refrigerator to preserve food.”
This truly amazing open letter to the faithful tells all. (pdf)
“It does not seem likely to me that God would set up the world to work in such a way that human beings would eventually destroy the earth by doing such ordinary and morally good and necessary things as breathing, building a fire to cook or keep warm, burning fuel to travel, or using energy for a refrigerator to preserve food.”
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Monday, February 05, 2007
Tycho Brahe: gold prosthetic nose: check. beer-drinking moose? yep. Clairvoyant dwarf who sits under the table during dinner? sure. more
While government and academics intellectualize over whether or not climate change is real, the insurance companies, who can map risk to dollars, are already taking action.
"And in the coast-hugging states of Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut, the company will not write new business no matter where the property is."
"And in the coast-hugging states of Delaware, New Jersey and Connecticut, the company will not write new business no matter where the property is."
