May 2010
58 posts
We keep hoping that one day we will find the man who really understands our...
– Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
The Limits of Liberty →
diggydivision:
The Limits of Liberty is the story of Irish Independence. How governments of the early decades of independence were preoccupied with one overriding issue, power. Power held by small elites in what would become one of the most centralised countries in Europe. This is the first television history of Ireland since the early 1980s and sets out to re-examine the received opinion of the...
http://www.oocities.com →
bittertv, “summer wave tape”
Sunscreen tips: →
More is not better: Sunscreens rated with SPF 55-100+ block just 1-2% more sunburn rays than an SPF 30 rated sunscreen. They offer a false sense of protection and their effective SPF for UVA might be as low as 9.3 as with Banana Boat Baby Max Protect (SPF 100).
Check your sunscreen: Find your sunscreen here and dispose of it properly if it doesn’t pass muster.
Sunscreen loses its...
By whose rules are we playing
magicmolly:
One (facile but useful) way to demystify sexual politics is to divide the world’s job opportunities into ones with uniforms that endow the wearer with nobility vs. ones with uniforms that endow the wearer with erotic vulnerability
As Afghan Opium Blight Spreads, Farmers' Lives... →
A mysterious blight is destroying poppy fields in southern Afghanistan. There are early signs that it’s reshaping the opium trade that partially funds the Taliban insurgency, but also the lives of tens of thousands of poppy farmers.
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Natürlich kann nur einer, der der Masse angehört, den Drang empfinden, sich von...
– Max Goldt – Ich und mein Staubsauger, Ausgabe 22, Berlin Juli 1988 (via attraktor) (via dr0fn0thing) (via neology) (via playingdumb)
two new ones in 24 hours
ouzo: very vivid dreams
amoxicillin: dull out-of-body sensation
yiamas!
Top Media Lies about Iran →
(via azspot)
"deutlich" angetitscht
auer D:
The Story of TEA - Part II
snorko:
THE STORY OF TEA THE TOAST TO WARM THEIR MUSICAL JIMJAMS AS TOLD BY BILL
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PART II: BEYOND THE DESERT (Read Part I here!)
Stuck in the desert, all we could do was to try and hitch our way out. But there were no cars for about two days, so we took to the shade under my car parts and ate cacti. At last we got picked up by a guy in a cowboy hat, who took us all the way to New York. He...
Hero →
While mainstream media coverage of the Times Square almost-bomber has predictably focused on the fact that he’s a Pakistani Muslim, no one has noted that the hero of the day - the first street vendor to notice the smoking car - is also a Muslim.
my life. →
(via fieldmanual)
Sometimes I get nostalgic for college, when the world was a comforting labyrinth of numerical values.