Link Dump 31/01/09

• Muxtape is back! Yay! But it's legal. Boo. Which means that unless decent bands volunteer for their material to be available, is there any point in going back?

• Delta of Venus by Anais Nin in it's entirety. Brilliant writing, excellent erotica.

• The Porno Theater Usher by Will Steacy: "The boss didn't come, nor did the police, but two creepy guys did and they bought tickets with quick movements and looked around after they got their ticket to see if anyone was watching them. I was."
  

"I had a hillbilly neighbor once who didn't pay his electric bill. When they shut off his power he pulled his meter, did something, replaced his meter and restored his power. The power company shut off his power at the pole. He shimmied up the pole and re-set the breaker. The power company took his meter. He stole mine. I called the power company, they called the sheriff. When he got out of jail he apologized and gave me a pig."

- Floydd of Metafilter, on stolen electricity meters.

Link Dump 27/01/09

• Clayton Cubitt on the Salvation Army

• 7th Ave South

• Zoriah: Thailand, then and now

• The Kingdom Series by Christopher Hewitt

• When trawling fashion photography sites, you don't expect to see a teenager making an (accidental???) parody of THAT Iraq torture photo. Blew me away.

• Trainers/sneakers made from recycled bus parts

• One of Etsuko Miura’s Sick Children - NSFW WARNING, especially if you're in a culture that is sensitive about nudity and children.

• The UK's alcohol problem is getting worse. Not surprising. Liver disease is going to be a massive problem in 20 years, if not sooner.
  

• Jacob's Ladder: 500kV Switch Opening

• I'm a successful Somali Pirate: "I've received more money than I ever thought I would see. In one incident, I got $250,000, so my life has changed completely."

• One year in 40 seconds

"it appears that this was a random drive-by script kiddie working for one of the many IE exploit malware groups"

- mathowie on the recent Metafilter downtime

Tony Benn: If you won't broadcast it, I WILL

[direct link]

Stimulus, ur doing it right

"The French president Nicolas Sarkozy today announced €600m (£565m) in emergency aid for his country's troubled newspaper industry and declared that every 18-year-old in France would get a year's free subscription to the paper of their choice to boost reading habits."

- Sarkozy pledges €600m to French newspapers

"We are willing to extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."

- President Barack Hussein Obama, 2009

Dear Bush

Iron Sky Teaser

What.

Oh my god.

WHAT???

Michael Murphy

New wire drawing from michael murphy on Vimeo.

Human Heads

Human Heads, originally uploaded by _saturnine.

The Wire, 5 Seasons, 5 Minutes (spoilers!)

Change Begins

"President Obama will end the 15-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that has prevented homosexual and bisexual men and women from serving openly within the U.S. military"

(At 4:25 if you want to skip the other questions)

And the Obama team renews my faith in the future.

Link Dump 14/01/09

• Connor Willumson's Lone Wolf and Cub

• Must make mustard roasted potatoes in the near future.

• The world is so large that you can abandon a plane in the woods and never return.

• Tokyo Times: Notes from a small group of Japanese Islands - there are more than enough Japanese culture blogs, but I love love love the quality of the photography here.

• The amazing pencilled cover for Warren Ellis' Ignition City, which sounds pretty awesome.
  

• I have no idea why I bookmarked this link.

• Tips for clueless people who get mugged: "In conclusion: Don't be stupid, pay attention, call the cops, and don't be a dick."

• Death All Around, a report from the Congo by Reuter's photographer Finbarr O'Reilly. Everyone focused on the photo of the dead soldier from this report, but it was the image of the father and son that will stay with me for a long time.

• Alexandros Vasmoulakis

• Why are the British so squeamish about eating invertebrates?

• The Big Picture is consistently good, but their Green Sahara set took my break away. Big bones and 8000 year old petroglyphs? Yes please.

• PingMag may now be closed for business, but their archives are still up. Check out Masata Seto's Betel Nut Girls.

• In Pictures: the Children in Care Exhibition

Waterworld

" Dry land is a myth."

- Waterworld

Bodega

all that's left

all that's left, originally uploaded by _saturnine.