beloved and respected comrade leader kim, looking at death
- "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."— Charles Kingsley
beloved and respected comrade leader kim
Posted in Globospheric, RIP
Tagged chess, Ingmar Begman, Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, RIP, Seventh Seal
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Brooklyn Bridge tonight
Posted in Cultural, Leviathan, politics, Social Studies
Tagged Occupy Everywhere, OWS
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the apple, stretching and yawning
Stirred from reveries to post some love to what we are currently obliged to call our peeps in New York today. Rather than me uploading the nth copy onto the interwebs, can I just direct you to make use of one of the links under this search link? Or go Youtube? Or, you know, dig your own copy out. That will work.
(I’m surprised to note that as far as Discogs knows, this track was never released as a single in the USA, so it may not be as familiar as some, to some. The relevance, however, should be pretty clear.)
piggy bankrupt
speaks volumes
(via FFFF)
G. A. Cohen – Against Capitalism
Twenty five minutes (in two parts) explaining the problems with capitalism, twenty five years ago. 1986 seems so long ago, Nancy, as another Cohen once observed. What a different world that was, and still, twenty five years later, the exhilarating analysis laid out here basically nails it. The observations on education under capitalism in the second part are especially pertinent just now.
(sideways via 3quarks)
Posted in Cultural, Leviathan, Social Studies
Tagged 1986, capitalism, education, g.a. cohen, Leonard-Cohen
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Storage does not equal memory, dammit.
How Apple Can Make Money From Higher-Quality Songs – NYTimes.com.
While I don’t actually disagree with any of the points made in this, I’m a little disturbed that the NYT’s Lead Bits Blogger (whatever that means) appears to think that “memory” is synonymous with “storage capacity”…
provisional post
(image via FFFF)
It’s too early to be absolutely sure about this, but I have a vague feeling that I’ll be coming back to more regular blogging before too much longer. This post (like rather too many of them over the last couple of years) is just to let you all know that I’m not quite dead yet…
serendipitous goat demon
Here’s a funny thing. I was casting an eye over a bunch of recent music artwork when I thought I noticed something. The thing I thought I’d noticed wasn’t especially interesting, actually, and the effect I thought I’d seen evaporated on closer examination – but in the course of that closer examination, I found this here goat demon — this vogueing goat demon, what’s more — lurking in the cover photo of the new Demdike Stare elpee.
And now I’m wondering, was it put there deliberately?
Posted in music, photography, weird shit
Tagged artefacts, Demdike Stare, demon, goat
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Don’t try this at home
I’ve had this page open in a browser tab for about a week. Can’t seem to let it go, so here it is. I’ve understood for years that people should not under any circumstances go anywhere near polar bears, and that goes double or triple for females with cubs. So, the pictures here are quite shocking (apart from being mad cute – look at the cub nibbling experimentally on the guy’s knees!)
The delicacy on offer, btw, is condensed milk…
(via English Russia)
Posted in food and drink, Social Studies, wildlife
Tagged condensed milk, Polar-Bears, Russia
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