Getty photojournalist Ezra Shaw‘s study of the high-dive game face, taken last Thursday at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China.
Not to be confused with Julian Finney’s similar pix from the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
A Smart car billboard campaign by BBDO Toronto.
Well, we find them intrusive and unwelcome. When we saw them, a part of us died. We shall not now, nor at any future time, be purchasing a Smart car, thinking about a Smart car or using the words ‘smart’ or ‘car’.
This is our last comment on the matter. Adieu.
That is all. So be it.
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Ads. *sigh* They ruin everything, don’t they?
(Thanks Simon O’Keefe)
Good news for Firefox and Chrome users.
Murdoch Block is a Chrome extension that warns you when you’re about to visit a news site controlled by the Murdoch empire and gives you the chance to turn away before the phone-hacking, ethics-lacking propaganda meets your eyes; and Murdoch Alert puts a helpful warning bar at the bottom of your browser whenever you land on a Murdoch-controlled news page.
New Firefox Add-on Warns You About The Dangers Of The Murdoch Propaganda Machine (NewsjunkiePost)
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Tomorrow’s Sunday Independent.
It’s a phone poll.
But still.
Tomorrow’s Observer:
Anders Brehing Breivik, the man accused of the murder of at least 91 Norwegians in a twin bomb and gun massacre, boasted online about his discussions with the far right English Defence League and other anti-Islamic European organisations.
The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, said Norwegian officials were working with foreign intelligence agencies to see if there was any international involvement in the slaughter. “We have running contact with other countries’ intelligence services,” he said.
Utøya Gunman Boasted Of Links To UK Far Right (Observer)
Oh.
Just us.
Well he was making this movie
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpffbDjWlog
Haywire with Michael Fassbender, Ewan ‘Beginners’ McGregor and Michael Douglas.
It looks, it must be said, not massively Soderberghian.
Irish bits at 54 seconds and 1m 43s.
Thanks Niall Gubbins
“When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women’s lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in Northern Saudi Arabia, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands.”
Right.
And they own how much of the world’s oil supply?
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Anti-Witchcraft Unit’ Breaks Another Spell (Jerusalem Post)
Via Warren Ellis
At 27
at
Amy Winehouse Found Dead In London Flat (NME)
Often sublime:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9-AvjsB6g
Over futile odds
And laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game.
Love is A Losing Game (self-penned, 2007).