Photos of the volcanic ash around Chile, where the Puyehue volcano erupted on June 4, smothering cars and roofs and rivers, exacerbating drought, and disturbing air travel in Australia and Brazil as well as its immediate neighbours:
"Pictures: Volcano Ash Smothers Lake, Buildings, Sheep" [National Geographic] Text by unknown, with photos from agencies (June 21, 2011)
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Celebrating the summer solstice (2008). And the obligatory slideshow of Stonehenge.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Monday, 20 June 2011
In Brief: Series of Internet Tubes Apparently Embiggens
In the laziest blog post since Ascension Day, here is a link to Boing Boing's article "ICANN votes to roll out 400-800 new generic top-level domains", by Cory Doctorow, from today.
It seems important but I wouldn't know how to explain it. :)
It seems important but I wouldn't know how to explain it. :)
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Blog: Joy the Baker
Introducing various blogs:
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Today it's the turn of Joy the Baker, a Wordpress-based food blog which is written and illustrated with bright photographs by a resident of Los Angeles, in her late twenties.
Her baking and occasional cooking is American with a contemporary concentration: garlic knots, a cinnamon sugar loaf that is baked in slices ("pull-apart bread") and a pineapple upside-down cake minus the pineapple and with strawberries, and time-honoured, classic-sounding recipes for roasted new potatoes with mustard and strawberry cupcakes.
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Today it's the turn of Joy the Baker, a Wordpress-based food blog which is written and illustrated with bright photographs by a resident of Los Angeles, in her late twenties.
Her baking and occasional cooking is American with a contemporary concentration: garlic knots, a cinnamon sugar loaf that is baked in slices ("pull-apart bread") and a pineapple upside-down cake minus the pineapple and with strawberries, and time-honoured, classic-sounding recipes for roasted new potatoes with mustard and strawberry cupcakes.
Habeas the 796th Anniversary of the Magna Carta
Disclaimer before hundreds of wroth barristers descend on me in a twitchy-eyed swarm: Please take the following skeptically since I am not a legal expert.
Monday, 6 June 2011
Paul Revere's Ride (Against the Commie Invaders in Alaska)
Never mind the geography and rhyming and rhythm, etc. . . .
Listen my children and you shall hear:
Of the Palin ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Barely any Joe sixpack is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his buddy, "If the Commies march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the lighthouse dome
Of the seaside village as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Alaskan village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Listen my children and you shall hear:
Of the Palin ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Barely any Joe sixpack is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his buddy, "If the Commies march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the lighthouse dome
Of the seaside village as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Alaskan village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Friday, 3 June 2011
Italian Vogue and the Three Plump Graces
It can be done after all: editor Franca Sozzani has honoured plus-sized women with the cover story and photo of Vogue Italia, June 2011.
On the front of the magazine the three models — Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine and Robyn Lawley — are posed in lingerie around a restaurant table, in black and white, against a blurry white and silver backdrop of a waitress and other figures, walls and natural light.
It is a part of the editor's campaign against pro-anorexia websites and the fixation on slenderness which European and American society pursue.
On the front of the magazine the three models — Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine and Robyn Lawley — are posed in lingerie around a restaurant table, in black and white, against a blurry white and silver backdrop of a waitress and other figures, walls and natural light.
It is a part of the editor's campaign against pro-anorexia websites and the fixation on slenderness which European and American society pursue.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
N.B.: Ascension
Today the bookshop is closed for the Ascension, which is "Christi Himmelfahrt" in German.
As the r.W.a. explains, it comes forty days after Easter, and in the Christian faith celebrates Jesus's rise into heaven.
Edicula on Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Photo by Adriatikus [via Wikimedia Commons]
Ascension of Jesus [Wikipedia] Read June 2, 2011
Ascension of Christ [Wikimedia Commons]
As the r.W.a. explains, it comes forty days after Easter, and in the Christian faith celebrates Jesus's rise into heaven.
Edicula on Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Photo by Adriatikus [via Wikimedia Commons]
Ascension of Jesus [Wikipedia] Read June 2, 2011
Ascension of Christ [Wikimedia Commons]
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