Terrorist Sandals
The Obama administration's pattern of targeted killings in the war on terror establishes an important conceptual point. It is now clear beyond dispute that the United States, on a bipartisan basis, fully embraces the paradigm that the threat of international terrorism is a matter of war, not a matter of law enforcement. And rightly so. That Obama presided over the killing of an American citizen like Anwar al-Awlaki marks a major advance in solidifying and legitimising the war paradigm. [Awlaki's] terrorist sandals may momentarily seem hard to fill, but as history demonstrates, not impossibly so. Lenin's death did not bring the end of Bolshevism; it brought Stalin.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/02/anwar-alawlaki-war-alqaida/print
The Young Man and the Sea
Poon Lim, a 25-year-old Chinese seaman from Hainan, was second steward on the British merchant ship, Ben Lomond, which was carrying a crew of 55. It was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 23 November 1942. Poon Lim leaped over the side. He had tied a life jacket around himself, so he surfaced and swam away from the freighter.
Sheep on Meth Shocked With Tasers
Cocaine is a hell of a drug, but getting shocked with a Taser while riding high on methamphetamines probably beats any white-knuckled cocaine experience hands down. And that's exactly what happened to some lucky sheep in a new study that tested the effects of Tasers on meth-addled targets, funded in part by Taser International.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-04/taser-shocks-meth-intoxicated-sheep-dont-harm-heart-taser-study-says
Madoff's Immoral Fabric
The latest craze sweeping Wall Street is a range of iPad cases fashioned from the wardrobe of convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff. Entrepreneur, John Vaccaro bought up most of Madoff's wardrobe at a US Marshals auction of his assets last year, then had them redesigned as iPad covers that sell for between $350-$500 on his website, Frederick James.
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8693690/An-iPad-case-made-out-of-Bernie-Madoffs-old-clothes-yours-for-500.html
Let them eat shit
Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces. Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. Mitsuyuki Ikeda, researcher at Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage, and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria. The researchers extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer, and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The "meat" is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids, and 9% minerals. The researchers apply red food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.
Question: How does this differ from a Big Mac?http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/
Monument to Small-Nation Penis Envy
The only way to make sense of Dubai is to never forget that it is not real. It is a fable, a fairy tale. More correctly, it is a cautionary tale. Dubai is the story of the three wishes, where, as every kid knows, with the third wish you demand three more wishes. And as every genie knows, more wishes lead to more greed, more misery, more bad credit, and much, much, much more bad taste. Dubai is Las Vegas without the showgirls, the gambling, or Elvis. Dubai is a financial Disneyland without the fun. The first thing you see when you arrive is the airport, with its echoing marble halls. It is big enough to be the hub of a continent. Dubai suffers from gigantism -- a national inferiority complex that has to make everything bigger and biggest. This includes their financial crisis.
http://rdd.me/jklmifvs
Gaddafi: "It is raining"
Al Jazeera broke into Libyan state TV showing Gaddafi in a jeep, donning a Russian fur hat and struggling with a ginormous umbrella. He said: "I want to have some rest. I was talking to the young men at Green Square; I wanted to stay the night with them, but then it started to rain. I wanted to show them that I am in Tripoli, not in Venezuela. Don't believe those dogs in the media."
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