Most of what I post here is meant
to entertain Rach. If you don't like it
and you're not her: I'm sorry.
If you don't like it and you are her: I'm even more sorry.
via Kurt White
Mzungu is the Swahili word for “Person of European Descent.” I could not find the source of this chart. Does anybody know?
This is interesting.
(Reuters) - Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s, but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a Mexican newspaper…
Official persecution of gays continued into the 1970s before homosexual acts were decriminalized in 1979. Today, Cuba’s medical service provides free sex-change operations.
Body surfing.
(via bahalanasibatman)
Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world’s oldest continuously living organisms — from 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago’s coast to an “underground forest” in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
(Source: ted.com)
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Looks shopped.
I’ve never heard of it before. Has this been around for a while?
The small Japanese town of Taiji made infamous in The Cove began its annual dolphin hunt today. Filmmaker and dolphin advocate Ric O’Barry won’t be there, though, because he’s been threatened by Japanese nationalist groups. So instead, Barry’s staying in Tokyo. Today he staged a protest at a Tokyo hotel and delivered a 1.7 million signature petition to end the hunt to the US Embassy. Not to be outdone, Sea Shepherd is calling for any dolphin supporters to go immediately to Taiji: otherwise, the organization says, activists aren’t doing enough. But is Taiji really the right place to go? The town of 3,400 in Wakayama prefecture kills around 2,000 dolphins a year. Iwate prefecture up north kills approximately five times as many dolphins as Taiji. For all O’Barry and Sea Shepherd’s work, the dolphin hunt (and whaling) isn’t likely to end soon, the Taiji mayortold the AP. “We will pass down the history of our ancestors to the next generation, preserve it. We have a strong sense of pride about this,” mayor Kazutaka Sangen said. Speaking of history, activists have been so (understandably) blindsided by the cruelty and atrociousness of dolphin and whale slaughter that they’ve forgotten it was only after WWII that Japanese consumption of whale and dolphin meat increased. Gen. Douglas MacArthur was the one who helped Japan set up whaling fleets so Japan could feed people who were facing starvation during the American occupation. It’s no surprise that more than a million people around the world want the brutal Taiji dolphin hunt to stop. Who wouldn’t? But Japan is a society that highly values respect, tact, and diplomacy. I can’t say that I’m sure American activists will get what they want by using their highly public, confrontational tactics.
(Source: tristynrena)
All I see is a deer, trees and a lot of leaves - Roger Ebert’s Journal
I couldn’t see it either at first, but there is a face in the totality of the of leaves and sky above the deer’s head.
Olivia Solon profiles a new trend in the vinyl craze. You can now have your ashes pressed into a record of your choosing.
Didn’t even have to think which album I’d want to be: The Cure - Disintigration
Attendees of The Venice Film Festival were allegedly shocked by the content of the opening film, Black Swan, which features scenes of lesbian sex, drug taking, and self-harming.
The Guardian reported that the sex scene between stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis elicited quite a response from the festival, which began earlier this week. The movie, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is about the highly-competitive world of ballet.
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