Archive for the 'Human Interest' Category
World Press Photo Contest 2007
The World Press Photo 2007 contest winners have been announced.
My favorite by far is the first prize winner for People in the News: ‘Settler struggles with Israeli security officers, Amona outpost, West Bank, 1 February’.
Normally I’d post the photograph here. Unfortunately according to World Press Photo, “the image is protected by copyright” and nobody’s supposed [...]
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The Cost of China’s Development
A short video that shows the extent of the human rights violations currently happening in China. There may not be any massacres as large in scope as Tienanmen Square, but that’s been replaced by hundreds of small ones that affect a lot more people.
The building boom in China might be great for architecture, but it [...]
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linking to oblivion 3
I am Man, hear me roar.
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Fun with teh internets:
Guy who buys broken laptop on Ebay gets revenge by posting the data on seller’s harddrive (which seller stupidly forgot to delete). ‘Data’ includes his fake CV, his personal porn (gay AND straight) and some other stuff.
This one is old, but a guy who planned [...]
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1711278
simply put,
crazy, autistic kid goes to the internet looking for some information on ammo.
the ‘magical internet trolls®’ gladly give him the information he needs. (proving once and for all that yes, you CAN get anything on the internet.)
crazy autistic kid goes on a shooting spree the next day.
wtf.
as bill and ted would say,
‘woahhhh’.
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David E. Kelley as William Shatner
‘Boston Legal’ is turning out to be quite a dissapointment.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not trash tv. Production quality’s still good, acting is still okay. William Shatner back on the small screen is still pretty hilarious. It’s just that the ‘Kelley-verse’ isn’t as it was used to.
I’m referring of course, to the number of David [...]
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