Archive for August, 2008

Brain-dead Americans

Cindy McCain says Palin has the foreign policy experience “because Alaska is close to Russia.” Oh and by the way, Palin also believes that some entity up in the clouds created the world and the world is only 6000 years old as the Bible says… Seriously… I have no words left.

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“She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she’s done to this state. What would she do to the nation?”
- Lyda Green, Republican State Senate President in Alaska on Sarah Palin.

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Absolutely. Yup, yup.

Absolutely. Yup, yup.
- McCain’s VP choice, answering whether she’s ready to to be one heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World. Is this how a potential president behaves?

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How the Obama camp should respond to the Palin pick

How the Obama camp should respond to the Palin pick - in style. Its a slam dunk.

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Republican scum

“I think [Obama’s] going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice,” Rove said. “He’s going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he’s going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like […]

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David Duchovmy in sex rehab

Mulder enters sex addiction rehab. I say bullshit. This guy is an Oxford grad is as smart as they come. Its nothing but a PR stunt perfectly timed to coincide with the start of the second season of his amazing show Californication. If you havent seen Californication, I highly recommend it!

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Let KITT take you there

Knight Rider - the GPS system. Are you fucking kidding me?

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Richard Howe is a photographer that takes pictures of street corners in Manhattan. In his own words:

The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of the island’s roughly 11,000 street corners (the exact number is a matter of definition and, in some ambiguous instances, even a matter of judgment).

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There’s a fan-based viral campaign now online to try and get The Dark Knight nominated for the Best Picture category at the Oscars. I say hell ya - it totally deserves it. Best picture of 2008 by far.

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Awesome gallery of images of planes on fire.

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As I twittered about the other day, Moon, Jupiter and Venus are aligned in such a way these days that will never happen again. So make sure you go out at night and check it out.

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Its almost the end of the year and with that always comes the usual “Best of…” lists. Here’s the first for 2008: Best Photographs of 2008, as selected by TheAge.com.au.

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Mysterious posters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy inspired by an iconic Barack Obama election image have sprung up across Paris, sparking a media guessing game about the origin of the campaign.

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Shot of the Day: “Its in our hands” - Tommy Oshima

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Micheal Phelps’s new girlfriend is kinda slutty-sexy and freaky. I kinda dig it.

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The chilling story of a Mumbai photojournalist who watched terrorists and policeman get killed. The policeman had guns but did not fire back. They just hid as civilians got murdered.

I think they [the terrorists] saw me taking photographs but they didn’t seem to care.”

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Simpson takes on Apple and the the Apple Fanboys. Genius!!!

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Results from the MUJI awards.

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Banksy has finally updated his site with some new drawings I saw in his Banksy/Warhol exhibit last year.

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The world’s oldest LOL Cat has been found - and its all the way from 1905!!! They even put an all-caps caption on it. If this is authentic, then its certainly awesome.

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Finally - a politician and US president that gets it. His weekly address is on YouTube - with all their open comment glory.

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If youre like me you use Google Reader for all your RSS needs. And, like me, sorta hate the UI. Check out this minimal greasemonkey script UI for Google Reader - pretty neat.

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Bombay attacks in pictures. Sad pictures. Dont read the comments where people are blatantly blaming Pakistan. This instant blame of each other when things go wrong in each others’ countries needs to stop. Ignorant fucks from each side can blame each other to hell. Lets stop the blame and start working together for a solution to death and bloodshed.

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Look. There are terrorists on twitter. His website remind you of some other website? Same background and same color scheme. Not only is he a baby-killing terrorist, he’s a thief as well.

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