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Who Says Joe Biden Can’t Make Perfect Sense?
When Joe Biden was gently pushed to respond to Rep Joe Barton’s clueless comment about BP enduring Obama’s $20 billion “shakedown”, the man reminded us why he’s there. Good on ya Mr. Vice President.
Joe Biden press conference
A Design a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Eric Baker posts wonderfully selected images each day. Let’s hear it for visual sanity–and stimulation.
Design Observer
Our Perspectives on Time
Love this, plain and simple. Professor Philip Zimbardo gives us his perspectives on time with some damned engaging cartoon help. Allow yourself the luxury of watching it all the way through.
Professor Philip Zimbardo
Ricky Gervais Does Dating
Like no one else….[via The Daily Dish]
Ricky Gervais Does Dating
The Bronte Sisters Kick Superhero Butt
The Bronte Sister: Kicking Literary Butt since the mid-1800′s.
The Bronte Sisters Action Figures
So That Explains Glen Beck–Nazi Tourette’s
You‘ve gotta love the uber-shouting, ever-crazy, Lewis Black from The Daily Show. This time he gives us the logical explanation for Glen Beck’s existence; the man has Nazi Tourette’s. It explains a whole lot.
The Daily Show
Firsthand Reporting on New Zealand in Afghanistan–What a Concept
Too rarely do we get to hear firsthand reportage in Afghanistan filling most of a television half hour in New Zealand. Jon Stephenson has been making trips to Afghanistan for eight years now. Well done Media 7, for giving his perspective the room to be heard.
Media 7 with Jon Stephenson
Introducing Your Average Phone Sex Worker
A terrific photo essay of telephone sex workers by Mothers Jones Magazine. Especially worth reading their short commentary.
Mothers Jones Photo Essay
Corporate Water Anyone? Be nervous.
An excellent article by Gordon Campbell on what privatising water won’t do for New Zealand.
Via Scoop
Your Weekend Mental Health Break. Enjoy.
He makes it look so effortless. Guitarist Andy McKee.
Guitar Virtuoso Andy McKee
Literary Lions and their Laudenum of Choice
Lapham Quarterly gives us one nifty list of writers and their chemical muses. There must be some way you can make this useful while picking up some gorgeous thing at the end of the bar.
Chart of Writer’s and their addictions
Only existing footage of Anne Frank
This rare, fleeting footage was taken of a wedding couple emerging from their home. Anne Frank can be scene briefly leaning out the 2nd floor window watching.
Anne Frank video footage
A Virtual Choir
Interesting, strange, haunting and inevitable.
A Virtual Choir
Tampon Ad that Finally Makes Sense
Finally a tampon ad that points out the obvious. All feminine hygene commercials must use multiple, slender women in swirling white dresses, dancing joyfully to signify menstruation. I knew that. That’s why I need a pink shaver to do my legs.
Tampon Commercial
Look Mom, I’m a Sperm
There are times in life when you just need to phone your mother and say, “Mom, I work for National Geographic. I’m a giant human-sized sperm running through a mountainpass.”
National Geographic Great Sperm Race
The Angry Voice of Reason, Patrick Kennedy
Representative Patrick Kennedy has said he won’t be running for re-election. At the ripe old age of 42, he’s been in office since he was 21 years old. So good to hear his anger in perspective at the absent press.
“The Press is despicable”
Marion Cotillard Introduces Forehead Titaes
Leave it to the elegance of French women to give us Forehead Titaes.
Forehead Titaes [via FunnyorDie]
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Greenscreen World
I don’t think any of us realise how much of what we see on film and television isn’t real until you look at Stargate Studios Virtual backlot reel.
Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel
Keep This Link for Cheap Flights
The New York Times gives a good overview of where to search out cheap alternatives for flights on the Internet. Particularly helpful for long-haul.
The New York Times Flight Shopping Online
Wear a Hood and Torture? That’s Fine.
Glen Greenwald in Salon writes compellingly about what US law now says is the legal way to get away with torture– just make sure you wear a hood.
Glen Greenwald in Salon
When Detainees Return to being People
The thing that struck me about this ACLU video is finally getting to hear the words and see the a real person behind the annonymous hooded Guantanamo “detainee”. This video shows us several former prisoners behind the headlines, now released back to the UK. [via The Daily Dish]
Guantanamo Reminder
Granted, maybe things have improved just a tetch for women since 1972
Watch this 1972 television clip of Gloria Steinem being interviewed by a Triffid, or something damned near close.
Gloria Steinem vs Man?
Weeping for a Fallen Friend
Soldier Barry Delaney kneels weeping at the funeral of a fellow soldier killed in Afghanistan. The two friends had wagered that they would wear this lime green dress to either’s funeral. Photo by Jeff J. Mitchell, Getty via The Daily Dish.
Required Viewing For Classrooms Everywhere
Watch this video and send it to anyone under age 80.
Failure
Dare I Say it? I Agree with George Will
Conversative US commentator George Will has actually written a column advocating withdrawing from Afghanistan. Go George.
George Will from the Washington Post
Media 7 on the Psycho US Healthcare debate
Russell Brown, John Dybvig and I talk about the lunacy of the current health care debate. We are the “Chapter 2″ on the link. It’s Episode 7, September 3rd.
Media 7 Show
The Sweet Voices of Middle School
Sing it to us, New York’s PS22 School.
Pictures of You by The Cure
Pirates, Princes and Blackwater
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill has done some excellent work following Blackwater. This is a four-minute excerpt from The Nation. Scahill’s book is Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Leaving Iraq, Chasing Pirates
“Mow the Lawn”? Puhleeze–
This UK Schick shavor ad is enough to cause the fair sex to opt for a new gender. I can’t decide what is more nauseating, the pink lawnmowers, the racial references, the topiary bushes or the pussy cat allusion. Just shoot me now.
Mow the Lawn Ad
Elie Wiesel; Why Losing Everything [Again] Doesn’t Matter
In just four minutes, Nobel Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor, Elie Weisel, puts it all in short, sharp perspective after recently losing the entire value of his humanitarian foundation and his personal wealth to Bernie Madoff.
Washington Post Interview Excerpt
Kiera Knightley does Domestic Violence–
Well This domestic violence ad works–especially coming from such a glam source. A good example of how to use fame effectively. From The Guardian.
Kiera Knightly PSA
Sunday Show
A summary of the lighter side of the US elections from TVNZ’s Sunday Magazine Programme from two American ex-pats’ perspective. When you get onto the site, click on “full screen”. [Sorry American readers, you have to jump through a few hoops to get access.]
Cutting Edge Humour
Celebrating Obama in Auckland
Just another quiet, understated crowd of American Obamaniacs on US election night in Auckland, New Zealand.
Celebrating Obama’s Win
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