July 2010
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Design Easy | Flounders On Film →
My mate Steve briefly considers the creative effort that goes into designing film posters.
Barack Obama: UK relationship is 'truly special' |... →
US President Barack Obama has called his country’s relationship with the UK “truly special”, following a meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.
The president said the world was “more secure and more prosperous” when the UK and US worked together.
Very special. We were the empire and they were our bitch, and now they’re the empire and we’re their...
Chris Eubank The Musical
Dogwoof is the distributor of Oliver Stone’s South of the Border and I’m reading their blog post about the film’s premiere in London and looking at their photos…
Stone with writer/film maker Tariq Ali, and producer Fernando Sulichin. Okay.
Stone with two of the Dogwoof people. Okay.
Stone and Sulichin with more of the Dogwoof people. Okay.
Stone with Chris...
Banning the burqa
bingoparaphernalia:
Madam, – May I respectfully suggest that “what not to wear” should be kept on the television and out of the Dáil. – Yours, etc,
DJ MOORE, Green Road, Carlow.
- Letter to The Irish Times, 20/07/10
Top Secret America: Washington Post Investigation →
pieto:redguard:
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington...
“‘To imply that those currently at the top - the Warren Buffets and Roman...”
– Richard Seymour, The Meaning of David Cameron (via rejectamentalist manifesto)
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Wayne Smith - E20
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Documents reveal multimillion-dollar funding to... →
US State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $40 million USD international agencies are investing annually in anti-Chavez groups in Venezuela in an attempt to provoke regime change.
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No one ever high-fived me when I didn’t have stitches in my hand. They’re not doing it sadistically, they don’t realise, but Sod’s Law has ensured that it’s been the salutation of choice this last week. And I’m loath to decline a good high five. The pain!
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“It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of people doing that strange...”
– Hayao Miyazaki Compares iPad Use To Masturbation (via fuckyeahanimation) (via electronicalrattlebag)
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idledrearydays:
@crowth: I completely understand your point of view and the stats you gave about oxbridge students are why I said that being oxbridge educated does not necessarily sugest economic background. Of course i realise the unfair balance that exists within these institutions, but there are many exceptions. The number of public school MPs instead, may be more indicative of true class.
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“Take a dirty picture for me”
– 10,000 years of civilisation for this. (via ontologicalterrorist)
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iPhones are cool and everything (I fucking hate them and everyone who won’t shut the fuck up about them) but I wish geniuses had been equally as inspired by the cool medical gadgets on Star Trek as they were by the fancy fucking walkie-talkies. If you want a video conversation with someone on another continent whilst walking down the street, the reality of which you have augmented so you...
“Bill has recently been filming “The Captains” for Canadian TV where...”
– My William Shatner email update!
As someone who owns Mind Meld on DVD, I’m super excited about this.
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