Stalking Venus

In The Night Garden is a kids show from the makers of Teletubbies. It’s the same sort of repetitive nonsense as the earlier show, although with a bit more… I don’t know. Back-story? No, not that. Characterization? Hmm, maybe. Silliness? Yes, that’s not a bad option. Let’s leave it at that: Silliness. Well, now that’s [...]

Well, I had to have a bit of a laugh at this, Newsweek’s cover story: “The Making of a terrorist-coddling, warmongering, Wall Street-loving, socialist, godless Muslim president.” What a fantastic headline! What’s even better is the fact that Obama isn’t any of these things. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter meticulously picks apart each of these myths, exposing [...]

I’m constantly impressed by the simple excellence of the photographs offered up at Tokyo Times. Many of them are taken with nothing more sophisticated than an iPhone, showing the man’s true talent. The site/blog/phlog is run by Lee Chapman, an English dude in Japan. His use of light, shadow and subject are excellent, and I [...]

There could be a story behind this photo, folks. In fact there could be a great one. Only I’m guessing there’s just one word behind it. Can you guess what it is kids? That’s right. Alcohol. It just goes to show that it can really impair your judgement. Why else would she be wearing mustard [...]

This is a photograph of the concrete dome on Runit Island. The island, which is part of Enewetak Atoll was fitted with its unusual concrete cap because of the simple small fact that beneath it lie 111,000 cubic yards of radioactive soil and debris from the Bikini and Rongelap atoll nuclear tests. The dome covers [...]

Nice T-Shirt design from Threadless (via BoingBoing).

This has come up more than a few times during the course of my life. I am most definitely an “over” person (B). What about you? Let us know in the comments.