Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

05 January 2010

17 December 2009

American Religion & Sex Clubs & English & Conspiracy Theories & Portraits

Metafilter post about the increasing wishy-washiness in American religion.

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British Sex Clubs from the olden days.

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What English sounds like to non-native speakers:



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Conspiracy theory with critical thinking.

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The Human Survey.

24 August 2007

...And Now for Something Completely Different...



How come there aren't Burger Lords or Burger Vassals or Burger Serfs? Implementing such a strategic brand differentiation could better serve the needs of all burger-eaters. Of course, only real beef would be served at Burger King. In contrast, Burger Serf would serve rat tartar on black-market strawberry bagels.

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"Meaninglessness Of Preseason Game Plunges Jeremy Shockey Into Existential Crisis."





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Look at some of my pretty pictures:














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In medieval times, doctors wore things over their faces called nosegays. They looked like beaks and were filled with cloves to ward off the stench of death. Good times!



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More proof that the Ancient Greeks kicked ass and the Trojans suck it:

Residents of the ancient city of Troy left their waste on the floors of their homes or tossed it into the streets...

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About 500BCE, the city of Athens, Greece, passed the first garbage dump law in the Western world, requiring that garbage be dumped at least one mile outside the city walls.

—Garbage and Other Pollution, Cornelia Blair


Hektor made his wife sleep in TRASH! Otherwise, even I admit, he was a devoted and loving husband.

07 May 2007

Papal/Vatican Photos

National Geographic has (sadly, only five) photos of the Vatican, etc. Very pretty.

L'Osservatore Romano photos are available on a Vatican site.