2008

Nov

“Get excellent tools and appliances. Not a hundred bad,...”
— Bruce Sterling: The Last...

Weird Tapes. They remind of Daft Punk and Air but, uh, weirder. Their Get Religion stuff is my...

America The Gift Shop If American foreign policy had a gift...

CIA Director Steps Back In Time

The Wall [via nevver]

Blue State Iran

“Osama bin Laden’s intervention in the last American...”
— Jason Burke: Where’s...

Seeing Sigur Rós tonight, something I’ve wanted to do since I first heard Svefn-g-englar eight...

Oct

Giant Lego Man Appears On Beach

“Given the sad history of detaining men without charges or...”
— Ken Ballen & Peter Bergen:...

The Things He Carried Great Atlantic article on the futility...

Waterboarding Got White House Nod

“Almost half the world’s population live in the...”
— Telegraph: China plans dams...

McDonald’s sponsors: Feeding Healthy Families Seminars...

Christopher Hitchens: America the Banana...

Via ksen: So, wait, do I still get the shirt if I say...

Promo video for Carrotmob Bristol, which is takes place on Saturday, 25 October. See the Facebook...

“The head of failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers has...”
— BBC NEWS: Lehman Bros head...

Mike Tyon’s abandoned mansion [via VSL:Web]

Sep

“More perspective. The stock market lost $1.2 trillion today....”
— Mike Hudack [via danw]

“It’s very important when you consider even...”
— Fareed Zakaria thinks Sarah...

How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan's Feminists

Family flee neo-Nazi rally

Why Has Al-Qaeda Lasted 20 Years?

Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan

“Sarah Palin’s first foreign policy journey to AIPAC and...”
— Rami Khouri: Intemperance...

Weirdomatic: Old Creepy Ads

“2) Can you describe your long-term plan for Afghanistan? I...”
— ‘Sarah Palin’...

Sarah Palin Makes the Cover of Foreign Affairs Weekly...

RNC [via nevver]

Aug

Inside the World of Kim Jong Il: check out this fascinating...

Caught In The Net: FARC

Will Barack Obama Overcome His Crippling Fear Of Public...

Today was the 40th anniversary of the Prague Spring’s...

Britain's terror laws have left me and my...

“It also begs the question: is anything at the Olympics real?...”
— The Inquisitr: This Time It’s...

I’ve been decorating my laptop with wallpapers from...

Hold Still [via nevver]

The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0

Like everyone else I was completely blown away by...

I’ve just bought The Octopus Project’s newest, Hello, Avalanche on vinyl, and I’m...

Jul

Researchers have no 'right' to study...

Nuclear Blasts Show Terrifying Power: includes such gems as...

“When the last gold medal has been awarded and the athletes...”
— Beijing Lockdown: Geoffrey...

Renovating Beijing’s Historic Homes I’m hugely...

British paratroopers sunbathing in Kandahar stadium. Full...

To mark the Brian Jonestown Massacre’s latest fight, this is Whoever You Are from 1997’s...

“When Fascism Comes to America it Will be...

A blog’s not a blog this week unless it mentions the...

It’s Time to Rise and Take Back Control of...

A Different View: This is Sam Beam of Iron & Wine, from...

I’ve just spent a happy half hour while I was supposed...

Elite Sadr unit hopes to vanquish US

I’m loving the Fleet Foxes album. Along with their Sun Giant EP it’s been on perma-play...

Bin Laden Hunt Botched

Jun

“The pupil is reported to have written “fuck...”
— Review as expletive gets marks...

Nobody’s Business: Cops Bully Videographer, Videographer Wins Watch as two British police...

“He promises a trickle down effect of wealthy gamblers’...”
— Juan Cole: McCain Adviser...

Has the Pentagon Lost its Brain?

“It’s ridiculous, if we don’t embrace what is...”
— Says Jay-Z (born 39 years ago,...

This is great. I love my Holga so much. Holga Ad [via...

Chinese babies named ‘Olympic Games’ I love this...

Al Qaeda Issues 'Request For Proposals'

A Matter Of Size “Getty photographer Mario Tama...

Beijing approves Olympics ‘cheer’ Beijing...

If I ever have my own office in an academic institution...

“One of my fellow prisoners in Guantánamo was at sea on an...”
— Duncan Campbell & Richard...

I forgot that we went to see The Dodos on Thursday evening at the Louisiana. I wasn’t...

May

Interesting to see that al-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s media...

Jamie Livingston took a Polaroid every day, starting in...

“President Bush “convinces himself to believe what suits his...”
— Elisabeth Bumiller: In Book,...

On the heels of a fairly enjoyable Dot To Dot weekend, here’s my new favourite band Two...

Mark Mothersbaugh’s Postcard Diaries Image: Jocko...

“The Los Angeles chapter of Veterans for Peace is just...

“So we now have a rare moment in the Middle East: Iran,...”
— Rami Khori: A new Middle East,...

Blaze 'sets off Russian rockets'

Poll: Americans Want Their Iraq News

Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh,...

The Tigris Woods Golf & Country Club

Phase Space

I’ve just finished Stephen Baxter’s Phase Space. I wasn’t entirely sure what to...

“So, to sum up, let me see if I have this straight: The Bush...”
— Tom Engelhardt: Endless War...

Jan

Elsewhere

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I’m a PhD student in US foreign policy and the ‘war on terror’ and the Technical...