MetaFilter posts by UbuRoivas

Where the Wild Things are

UbuRoivas — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:40:47 -0800

Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen - YouTube animations of Maurice Sendak's classic childrens' books.

Glimpses of South Asia before 1947

UbuRoivas — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:38:05 -0800

Glimpses of South Asia before 1947 1,150 illustrated pages by the world's leading Ancient Indus Civilization scholars 774 photographs, postcards, lithographs, engravings, and archival film of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka before 1947

PolevaultFilter!

UbuRoivas — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:23:55 -0800

PolevaultFilter! Those who like to read about successful female athletes reaching great heights & being admired for their athletic achievements will be happy to know that Aussie World Youth Polevault Champion Vicky Parnov - niece of respected Olympic Silver Medallist Tatiana Grigorieva - will become the youngest ever Australian to take part in the world titles, in Osaka later this month.

Bunnies again, again.

UbuRoivas — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:40:39 -0800

Borat in 30 seconds, re-enacted by bunnies!

"We're here! We're queer! We welcome koala bears!"

UbuRoivas — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:12:23 -0800

Happy Mardi Gras! Originally a serious protest march, the annual Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, to be held this Saturday, is now a riotously festive celebration of queer pride & probably Sydney's largest & most fabulous party all year. For the first time, this year the event will also be streamed across the web, for all those who cannot come down under.

Kumbh Mela

UbuRoivas — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:45:18 -0800

Kumbh Mela. Currently under way in Allahabad, India, the three-yearly Kumbh Mela festival is the largest gathering of people on the planet, as up to 70 million Hindus converge to wash away their sins where droplets of the nectar of immortality are said to have been spilt when the gods & demons struggled over it. Of perennial interest to foreigners are the hordes of sadhus (often naked, ascetic holy men) who attend, not always without incident. Recently, however, an Australian historian has cast doubt on the supposedly ancient nature of the mass gathering, suggesting that it was largely invented as a way of circumventing British control following the unsuccessful Indian Mutiny of 1857. [reg for final link: mefi / mefi]

The Yuyu

UbuRoivas — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:32:58 -0800

The Yuyu (flash, 8.4Mb). The latest instalment in the Brackenwood series of impressive flash animations by former Disney cartoonist Adam Phillips (previously). Features music by Spider Stacy, of Pogues fame.

The defining event of our generation!

UbuRoivas — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:21:22 -0800

The defining event of our generation!

"I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords"

UbuRoivas — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:48:14 -0800

"I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords" - in what looks like a thinly-veiled attempt at viral marketing, a company claims to be giving bloggers the opportunity to send a piece of their lives into space to potentially connect with extraterrestrials. Let's just hope that future generations will not have to endure this kind of thing, next time a blogger decides to quit ranting on about themselves.

"One of the most cowardly wars ever fought in history"

UbuRoivas — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:53:03 -0800

"One of the most cowardly wars ever fought in history" was how Booker Prize winning novelist & Sydney Peace Prize winner Arundhati Roy described the war against Iraq, in her opening speech on behalf of The Jury of Conscience of the World Tribunal On Iraq.

She went on: The evidence collated in this tribunal should [...] be used by the International Criminal Court (whose jurisdiction the United States does not recognize) to try as war criminals George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, Silvio Berlusconi, and all those government officials, army generals, and corporate CEOs who participated in this war and now profit from it.