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Quote of the Day
"In my perfect world, you would be allowed to have your life, and your opinions still. The only difference is that you would not be able to dictate the life of anyone besides yourself.
In your perfect world, I wouldn't even exist.
I refuse to lay down and die so you and yours can live in your perfect world."
From A Truly Elegant Mess: " ( Read more... ) -
Real wealth is something you can pass on
"We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children ( Read more... ) -
The working week
2 shoplifters ( Read more... ) -
The Girl Who Said No
Noha Rushdie Saleh, a 27 year old filmmaker in Cairo, is my hero ( Read more... ) -
WTF-ness for today
According to PETA Fish "should be rebranded as sea kittens"
"If everyone started calling fish 'sea kittens,' they'd be a lot less likely to violently kill them for food..." a spokeswoman said ( Read more... ) -
Meet the Neighbours
Krystian Majewski has created an awesome interactive flash star map of the 32 stars within 14 light years of our sun.
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Yoshinao Sato
Papers is a lovely piece of animation by Yoshinao Sato.
I would love to see a hi res version of this.
I did a little bit of poking around the interwebs but the only information I could find on the artist was here. The page links to another shorter animation of similar style made in 1995 (also called Papers).
via Jean Snow
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Fear and Loathing in Ohio
... doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
It's depressing that people like this still exist.
Edit: Muslim McCain fans confront intolerance at a rally.
Both via Orac
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