September 21, 2016
Meow.
Batman: Bad Kitty (SLYT)
Bishop Backs Squatters
The Golden Age of Squatting, a history of London's squats and what squatting looks like in the present day.
The squat movement flowered in London in the 1970s, when an estimated 30,000 people lived in squats in Greater London, and the movement provided the base for many London subcultures over several decades. In 2012, the scene took a legal body blow when squatting in residential (rather than commercial) properties was made a criminal offense
Yogi Berra in space
I'm not a scientist but an experimenter
You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen
Sir Derek Jacoby vs Dame Helen Mirren was my undoing.
It seems simple enough. You are presented with two celebrities, and you must choose. Which. One. Vapes.
The best thing for the inside of a (person) is the outside of a horse
Hidden Desires is a project of The Care Group, a Green Cross member organization. Here they grant the wish of Mrs. Jacobs to ride one last time. Watch to the end. It gets really dusty! No translation needed.
Coming soon to a state fair near you
What do you get when you literally cross a hamburger with a hotdog? Hamdog!
So he hid it in one place he knew he could hide something
An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint allegedly smuggled about $180,000 in gold from the fortress-like facility, possibly evading multiple levels of detection with a time-honoured prison trick....
"My God, that's Kimberly!"
Lori Erica Ruff has been identified. The case of the woman who stole a deceased Fife, Washington 2 year old's identity has been solved, much to the surprise of the internet.
A new rap game has started right here, in your Wi-Fi menu
The Museum of Wi-Fi: While most of us keep the standard NETGEAR-15, linksys_8A or UPC27458 as it is, some true gangsta 2.0s have decided to stand out on their Wi-Fi lists by dropping their best punchlines.... The Museum of Wi-Fi exists to preserve these vestiges of our neighbourhood battlefields.
Don't read the comments
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Curtis Hanson 1945 - 2016
The writer, director of such films as LA Confidential, Wonder Boys and The River Wild has passed away at the age of 71. A tribute from Jessica Ritchey of RogerEbert.com, The Guardian and and Salon.
Repression and the free market “two sides of the same coin."
40 Years Ago, This Chilean Exile Warned Us About the Shock Doctrine. Then He Was Assassinated.
The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll; By Orlando Letelier.
How can this inequality be maintained if not through jolts of electric shock.
See previously.
The ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile: Economic Freedom’s Awful Toll; By Orlando Letelier.
How can this inequality be maintained if not through jolts of electric shock.
See previously.
I'm not a hero I'm just a coffee shop.
"The Battle For Cable Street's Mural"
Eighty years on from the day anti-fascists clashed with Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts in the Jewish East End of London, David Rosenberg tells the story of the long struggle to protect the giant mural. Link to the Brick Lane Bookshop's article, and to more info about the founding of Tower Hamlet's Art Project, which still seems to be going in some form in the middle of our current 'austerity'.
The story of the mural touches on world history*, community involvement, political activism, shared values*, spirit of place, and continuity. It's a fine example of the interaction between local and global; and perhaps of the legacy of Britain's now threatened, always contested, post-war socialist idealism. [more inside]
Glue smudges, ebony dust and all.
“I just want to get this guitar to where it’s used to being a guitar. Because right now it still thinks it’s a tree.”
Spend an hour of zen watching master luthier Michael Greenfield build a hand-crafted acoustic guitar.
Every Monday along the way / With courage I will face
Garfield. Pokemon. Garfemon.
primitive pic
Pictures recreated with simple geometric shapes Source code and more discussion here (with cool gifs!).
Phantasm Returns
1979 film Phantasm has been a bit of a cult masterpiece [original trailer] for nearly 40 years. JJ Abrams is a fan and has collaborated with the writer/director Don Coscarelli to do a 4K remaster of the film. It will appear in theaters and VOD in theaters on Oct 7, along with apparently the 5th and final film in the series, Phantasm: Ravager, written by Coscarelli. [more inside]
birds do it, bees do it, even australopithecines do it
LoL I got one
Sabrina Gonzalez joked to her dad, who works at Costco, that he should get one of their giant teddy bears for his five-month-old granddaughter Madeline Jane. Never joke to a new grandpa.
Symbols matter
What I Pledge Allegiance To. "I am a black Mississippian. I am a black American. I pledge to never be passive, patriotic, or grateful in the face of American abuse. I pledge to always thoughtfully bite the self-righteous American hand that thinks it’s feeding us. I pledge to perpetually reckon with the possibility that there will never be any liberty, peace, and justice for all unless we accept that America, like Mississippi, is not clean. Nor is it great. Nor is it innocent." -- Author Kiese Laymon, Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi [more inside]
Will Smith Was a Gangsta Rapper
The bots of (edit) war
Over a 10-year period, humans on average revert other human's edits on Wikipedia three times. Bots are more energetic: on English Wikipedia, they revert each other an average of 105 times. [more inside]
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