No one in US media or politics gives a flying fuck about Honduras.
Is it because they don’t have The Bomb?
“This image shows cobalt atoms that have been arranged into an ellipse with the help of a Scanning Tunneling Microscope. The ring is some 5,000 times smaller than a human hair. When a single atom is placed at one of the two focus points of the elliptical ring, some of its properties suddenly appear at the other focus, where no atom exists. This effect is called “Quantum Mirage”. It can only be explained using quantum theory.”
Back in my hotel room to write this talk, and I put
Glastonbury up on the tv while I write. Springsteen’s
on. Not a huge fan of the man, though I admire
his industry. The man puts in a day’s work on stage.
And he’s sweating, working hard. Got his foot up
on an amp as he sings. It’s just him, right now, the
stage is blacked out, and there’s one spot behind
him. And he’s hot, and it’s cold night out there, and
he’s steaming. And he’s just blown the authenticity
thing and gone into supermystification, because it
looks like he’s got an electromagnetic halo, curls of
glowing, pearly white light rising up from and playing
around his head and shoulders while he stands there
in near-silhouette….
He looks like he’s The Last Rock Star, the Ascended
Master who glows in the dark.
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Subject: [Bad Signal] Steam
Date: June 27, 2009 - 7:17 pm EST
Elvis Costello and Beastie Boys- Radio, Radio (via jubbyistootubby)
Elvis Costello Fridays Sabotage Edition.
Via Via Frank
One-man circus Michael Jackson has officially died, and somebody is very, very happy about this news. (That “somebody” is Mark Sanford. Adios, Mark! Enjoy the rest of your life.)
– WonketteStay classy, babushkas:
Apologies to non-Russian speakers. Sent to me by an old friend from the Moscow Times, this is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. I sincerely hope it’s real. The funniest part to me is the reporter asking this sweet-looking old babulya for the second time how the fire started, after she just blows his ears off with irrelevant profanities for like forty consecutive seconds the first time he asks. The part where she talks about how she tells her old man to take a hike (”get fucked in your mouth…I have another sponsor”) is just… I can’t even describe it, it’s so hilarious.
There are a lot of negatives about the internet, but I think it’s pretty safe to say already that one of its very finest uses is archiving videos of drunken Russians.
via Matt Taibbi.
Inca ruins at Moray. The only known circular terraces in the region, it is believed that they were used for agricultural experiments since each of the terraces has its own microclimate!
bigblueglobe, via Warren Ellis.
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