Kevin Myers’ Downfall
'Hope the Judas cunt chokes on his modh coinnÃolach...' Kevin Myers' Downfall from Myles na gCapailÃn on Vimeo.
Global crackdown on truth: WikiLeaks’ Assange goes into hiding
'Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has gone into hiding, fearful of arrest by U.S. authorities, an Icelandic parliamentarian confirmed Friday. "He's just been following events in the U.S., and State Department press conferences and so forth, and they have been trying to get hold of him," Birgitta Jonsdottir, a close supporter of Assange in the Icelandic Parliament, said... Jonsdottir said the Icelandic Parliament last night "unanimously" passed legislation that would create an "international safe haven" for national security whistleblowers.' - from Jeff Stein's Spy Talk, which is now published by the Washington Post. (Article dated 18.6.10).
‘The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks’
Yo, listen, I've just stopped by Blather's Arctic office for about 12 minutes on my snowscooter, I've got to be elsewhere double quick fast, or else Santa will die and there'll be no Christmas, but while on blather.net I want you all to be following this story, so for those of you who aren't... all I'm going to do is link to it: 'The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks'.
Patternicity
(photo by Cennydd, used under a CC license) "Patternicity: the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningless and meaningful noise" - Michael Shermer
Pareidolia
(image by Nuco, used under a CC license) From the kindly bots at Wikipedia: Pareidolia (pronounced /pærɪˈdoʊliə/ pa-ri-DOE-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon, and hearing hidden messages on records played in reverse. Press play.
Friday Choon: Peter Gabriel’s ‘Mercy Street’ by Elbow
From Peter Gabriel's 'Scratch My Back' project, this is Elbow's version of Gabriel's Mercy Street, from the 1986 album So.
Japan: officially, property of the USA (updated)
'Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apologised for not keeping an election promise to move a US military base from Okinawa. Mr Hatoyama travelled to the island and met local governor Hirokazu Nakaima.Like many locals, the governor is opposed to the US presence and said the prime minister's decision would be "difficult to accept"... Last month, nearly 100,000 people staged a protest on the southern island, demanding that the base be removed. Islanders have been angered by incidents involving US troops based there, including the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl...' BBC 23 May 2010. Update 1 June 2010:...
Gavin Kelly’s ‘Avatar Days’
'What happens if Dublin is invaded by zombies?' Utterly, utterly wonderful! Irish film maker Gavin Kelly's Avatar Days. As featured in the Guardian. Avatar Days from Piranha Bar on Vimeo.
Man With A Movie Camera
From Wikipedia: Man With A Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova who helped with the process of deleting and adding new frames into the film.
Database to be Erased
At last it's time to take a long, luxurious shit all over David Blunkett's political grave. The new government of the UK has announced the end of ID cards, the national identity register and biometric passports. New Labour's dream of turning the UK public into tagged cattle has failed. 'All the data currently held on the national identity register will also be destroyed within a month of royal assent.' Read: ID cards scheme to be scrapped within 100 days, Guardian, 27 May 2010. Highlights from the struggle for liberty on Blather.net: The Right Honourable Jacqui Smith MP Drowns. Alan Johnson:...