Category Archives: War
New Kennard
Peter Kennard’s photomontage work was everywhere in the early to mid-80s, but I haven’t seen his name about for years. He hasn’t lost his touch. (via the publics – who describe Kennard, Steve Bell and Banksy as contemporaries, which is … more…
links for 2008-02-15: no child left unintimidated
BBC NEWS | Education | ‘Retrain ex-troops’ as teachers Forget about standards of education, as long as the little horrors live in FEAR? (tags: wingnuts, education, war, kids)
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
links for 2007-11-12: engineers, embattled churches, magenta and lavender
Crooked Timber » » Engineers of Jihad engineers predisposed to (right wing) extremism? Worth chasing up the earlier thread too (tags: psychology jihad terrorism engineering) Norfolk battle training area churches Another venture into another exclusion zone, via nyplep (tags: history … more…
links for 2007-11-01: censored news, digitization
Project Censored 25 most under-reported news stories of 2007 It’s that time of year again, already. Overview: USA striding purposefully towards fascism at home, plunder and piracy abroad… (tags: censorship media politics war) Future Reading: Digitization and its discontents Anthony … more…
links for 2007-10-10: flying robot spies
Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs Washington Post, already blogged all over the place. Just wanted to fix the date when these things were first seen in the wild. (tags: robot surveillance technology)
God is… David Shayler!
David Shayler, darling of overweight right wing conspiracy nuts everywhere, is reported to have discovered that he truly is the Son of God. Yes, another one. He apparently made this claim in a televised interview for Channel 4 (page carries … more…
Leon Theremin
I’ve been browsing the Wonderland of Knowledge again — the twelve-volume children’s encyclopedia, published 1934 which was the source of the Two Stags image that I believe is still the most-visited post in this blog’s existence, and also of the … more…