Friday Ephemera
When gulls want your camera. // That’s an awful lot of lightning. // Yes, but is it vaginal? // Dog with bionic paws. (h/t, Peter) // Abandoned airliners. // Bacon jam. (h/t, Chastity Darling) // Broccoli house. // Beercandy. // Curveball. (h/t, The Thin Man) // Thou shalt not cut the cheese. // Tod Browning’s Freaks, 1932. // Rayguns made of glass. // Clocktower apartment, only 23 million dollars. // Two second strangeness. // Archive of Reith Lectures. // Monochrome watercolours. // Monochrome photography. // Monochrome city. // What to make of Michael Bay? // Why people laugh at Johann Hari (part 326).
Yes, but is it vaginal?
No.
“The former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was nearly killed a few years ago after a robot attacked him on a tour of a factory.”
Heh.
Didn’t Johann Hari win the Orwell Prize…? It all makes sense.
“Didn’t Johann Hari win the Orwell Prize…? It all makes sense.”
Mr Hari won it in 2008, I think. And the chronic confabulator Laurie Penny, who confabulated again in his defence, was shortlisted last year. So yes, there’s an irony in there somewhere.
David,
Saw this and thought of you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gimvQjUHzqs&feature=related
Truly, we live in an age of wonders.
My favourite quote on the Johann Hari story
from quite a good piece from Splintered Sunrise:
‘Which is not to say (and I’m trying to be scrupulously fair here) that Toni Negri or Malalai Joya might not have said something to Hari similar to what he quoted – he’d simply lifted his quotes from elsewhere because they evidently read better than what he had on tape. Which, as it happens, is the explanation given by Hari himself in his remarkably pompous blog post (“intellectual portraiture”, forsooth) owning up to this sharp practice’