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posted by brownpau at 7:51 PM PST - 83 comments

Avalokitesvara.
posted by hama7 at 4:22 PM PST - 26 comments

This wonderful life
posted by magullo at 3:43 PM PST - 37 comments

Has it been 20 years already? "Andy himself stated that were he to fake his death, he would return 20 years later to the day. MAY 16TH 2004 IS THAT DAY."
posted by ric at 1:21 PM PST - 24 comments

Slashdot just a bit late?
posted by hobbes at 12:24 PM PST - 33 comments

Chain Of Command
(More Inside)
posted by y2karl at 12:04 PM PST - 36 comments

A Report on Mesopotamia by T.E. Lawrence, August 2nd, 1920.
posted by homunculus at 11:57 AM PST - 13 comments

Studs Terkel: Conversations with America (in Real audio).
posted by nthdegx at 11:25 AM PST - 1 comments

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory gallery of images. 'Cuz sometimes you just need to see dozens of pictures of Spiral Galaxies. Or maybe planetary nebulae. Or even telescopes and observatories. From the website of the NOAO, the national center for ground-based nighttime astronomy in the United States.
posted by Shane at 11:17 AM PST - 4 comments

Monroe County Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled March 31 that two parents "should not have yet another child which must be cared for at public expense."
Unconstitutional? Maybe. But not sufficiently so for the NY ACLU to say much anything about it. Maybe the Judge could have recommended the same sex-ed scheme that shows, in parts of England and Wales where it [called A Pause] was trialled in 104 schools, sexual intercourse among 16-year-olds fell by up to 20 per cent. Now that may mean we have to have more discussion of oral and manual, with less genital-genital emphasis. Anything that promotes the right to say 'no' amongst vulnerable young folks is alright by me.
posted by dash_slot- at 11:12 AM PST - 19 comments

The Scandal's Growing Stain Time Magazine: "Abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq shock the world and roil the Bush Administration. the inside story of what went wrong—and who's to blame"
posted by Postroad at 11:12 AM PST - 18 comments

The Great Mahakali Write-A-Thon.
posted by Gyan at 10:11 AM PST - 2 comments

Innocent Victims in the War on Terror Macedonian police gunned down seven innocent Pakistani and Indian illegal immigrants, then claimed they were terrorists, in a killing staged to show they were participating in the US-led war on terror. "It was a monstrous fabrication to get the attention of the international community" (via Halfway Down the Danube)
posted by zaelic at 9:09 AM PST - 16 comments

Sea-creatures in glass. In the late 19th Century, Dresden-based glass-artist Leopold Blaschka, together with his son, Rudolf, made scores of beautiful and intricate glass models of marine invertebrates. [First link via an e-mail from Alex Vaughan.]
posted by misteraitch at 12:14 AM PST - 10 comments