Genesis P-Orridge, Thee Psychick Bible, page 74
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Gaberndorf II (1924) by Lyonel Feininger (via electronicalrattlebag/exclamationmark)
Some of the people controlling drones are in the military. Some of them are civilian contractors, perhaps based in a different country to the army they’re fighting for (such as British commercial operators based in Surrey, flying surveillance drones for the Dutch in Afghanistan.) The programme raised the issue of whether software engineers might one day be tried for war crimes. Looking at things the other way, if the Taliban contrived a way to blow up one of these operators on their daily commute in Nevada or Surrey, would it be a terrorist murder of a non-combatant or a legitimate act of war?
Mexico’s homicide rate has fallen steadily from a high in 1997 of 17 per 100,000 people to 14 per 100,000 in 2009, a year marked by an unprecedented spate of drug slayings concentrated in a few states and cities, Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said. The national rate hit a low of 10 per 100,000 people in 2007, according to government figures compiled by the independent Citizens’ Institute for Crime Studies.
By comparison, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have homicide rates of between 40 and 60 per 100,000 people, according to recent government statistics. Colombia was close behind with a rate of 33 in 2008. Brazil’s was 24 in 2006, the last year when national figures were available.Mexico City’s rate was about 9 per 100,000 in 2008, while Washington, D.C. was more than 30 that year.
After the dissolution of Poland, a Polish officer serving under Napoleon penned a song that eventually — after the country’s post-World War I resurrection — became the country’s national anthem. It begins, “Poland is not yet lost.”
Well, America is not yet lost. But the Senate is working on it.
Favorite ad of the superbowl by a long distance.
I’m not sure I have seen a Google ad before, but this one is great. Clean, simple and effective. And genuinely reflective of how people today use their product.
While the rest of the Super Bowl advertisers were happy to relive the past with Don Rickles, Abe Vigoda, Betty White, Stevie Wonder, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Charles Barkley, Cheap Trick, ELO, Kool and The Gang and aging Chicago Bears, Google rather elegantly talked to young people and addressed the future. Much like NBC did when they tossed out Conan in favor of more Leno, this is the old guard essentially giving up on “what’s next” and wrapping “what’s known” around them like a warm blanket.
It’s a rather violent mood swing from an industry that spent decades ignoring a huge demographic in favor of exclusively courting young people. Now they’re giving up on young people and focusing only on people old enough to remember the Super Bowl Shuffle.
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
this song. this song is perfection. slow dances on hardwood floors. starry skies.
you’re right….so dreamy
A beautiful recording that stands out even when crammed into an MP3.
Postal Truck Lodged Under Overpass - Gothamist
Oops @ 10th Ave & 30th Street
David Letterman, Oprah, and Jay Leno Super Bowl ad.
brianstelter : CBS says the Letterman/Leno/Oprah ad was taped earlier this week at the Ed Sullivan Theater. (press release via @alexweprin’s blackberry.)
This is not remotely interesting or clever. It’s certainly not funny. I’m embarrassed for both of them and bummed that TV has gotten so bad that this nonsense can qualify as “genius” and “perfect”. Referencing their feud isn’t the same as getting their writing teams together and actually crafting something funny. And trying to squeeze one last drop of publicity from the Conan fiasco is just sad.
The dignity of the late night talk show died last month. This little turd is the final nail in the coffin.
Rejected third anniversary poster for a club that shall remain nameless
Love(!!!) all the piggies.
Fred Armisen, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Hader and Dave fucking Grohl pull off one of the greatest sketches in Saturday Night Live history, “reuniting” the band Crisis of Conformity during a wedding reception. Worth noting that this was the last sketch of the night - the sketch we can usually do without.
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