Yahoo! News - Franco-German 'War Bastards' Speak Out: "PARIS (Reuters) - As a boy Daniel Rouxel slept locked in a chicken coop because his grandmother was so ashamed of his origins -- the love affair of her French daughter with a German army officer in occupied France during World War II.

Like Rouxel, tens of thousands of these half-German children in post-war France were bullied and humiliated by their families, neighbors and teachers. Their mothers faced public abuse as punishment for sleeping with the enemy.
As France gears up to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the June 6 D-Day landings that freed it from the Nazis, a book 'Enfants maudits' ('Cursed Children') confronts it with an unsavoury chapter of its history. "

Consequences and more consequences...complicated world we live in.

listening to Costello Elvis - Guitar Tabs - New Lace Sleeves Tab

Punch

frontline: the way the music died | PBS

Pythonline > Plugs > Idlewild > About The Editor: "Eric Idle presents... The FCC Song.
'Here�s a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge� It�s a new song, it�s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.'"

Declare Yourself...register to Vote

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Kid Energy

this is awesome. I've always wanted to open a gym that uses equipment that produces power. get the yuppies sweating those Watts out.

MoveOn PAC: "George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. "

Japanese AV Idolsi have no idea what an AV idol is actually.

Rosie the Riveter Action Figure

Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid the original oliver.

TIGER online magazine

Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog: "Ok folks, show me your whimsical side. My wife is quite a gardener and she's always out there bending down, pulling weeds, digging, etc. I thought it would be fun to occasionally stick things under the plants for her to stumble upon. Star Wars figures having tea, little elves napping, Lego construction crews, small billboards with cute signs, etc. I want to make it look like there's a little community of miniature garden people living in the dirt. I know she'd appreciate the effort. I need more ideas.
posted by bondcliff at 9:43 AM PST "

love.hate.fear. my man isaac is fucking old school. trust me. he "blogged" longer than most current bloggers have blogged, then took a break which has been as long as most current bloggers have blogged.

what does that add up to? Old School.

Family Chronicle - Dating Old Photographs: "We thought it might be interesting to show in detail how a photograph can be dated with a considerable degree of precision. The photo we chose (shown in the center) is of the Walter John Harwood family and was kindly supplied by Phyllis Libby Glynn. We do actually know when this was taken: about 1890."

Boriska-boy from Mars - PRAVDA.Ru Pravda Rocks. its like the weekly world news mixed in with the BBC.

Boing Boing: Deserted Japanese island photo gallery

Wow. It is like a huge movie set, all ready to go.

so this afternoon i woke up with an idea for a story --yeah, i know, when don't i wake up with an idea--anyways....

ET: Part Two.

We find elliot as an adult, troubled by flashbacks from having spent about 20 years in super-secret government labs being poked prodded and observed.

He finally escapes and with the alien ship plans in his head he starts building a spaceship. Target? ET homeworld. For Payback. oh yeah.

this is the correct brother art link

Satan's Laundromat: "This is a Brooklyn-based photolog with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness."

Santa Cruz Sentinel - Business just more santa cruz linkage.

TKO Software, Inc. santa cruz based game company

Unknown Photo Gallery This is a HUGE gallery of old pictures of unknown people.

they also have huge galleries of known people. WOW.

Scientist Grey T-Shirt > Scientist Trading Card Merchandise | CafePress

Artist's Pens

these faber-castell PITT Artists Pens are rocking my world. Using them on color mattes as well as my Moleskine sketchbook....great color, great coverage...the brush pens have an amazing feel to them.

Shutterfly | View Shared Pictures more of my brothers artings.

Everyday Matters. "Do not fear mistakes. there are none." Miles Davis said that.: "Everyday Matters is a series of occasional essays on creative things, journal making, drawing,etc. intended to challenge, inspire and perplex. Please feel free to comment and straighten my ass out. �Danny"

KEN LAYNE ~ Mp3s: "Songs & song-clips by Ken Layne"

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Claim made for new form of life: "if you go back to how we defined life prior to our knowing about DNA, our criteria was that things multiplied in culture. This is what we have "

Zenarchery.com: Download My Banners!: "So here's the deal, folks: I get lots of hate mail about how I'm a liberal Commie faggot who hates freedom. And I thought, well...why deny it any longer?"

CBLDF - Press Releases: New Censorship Bill Turns Parents into Prosecutors good grief. what a stupid law.

3hive - sharing the sharing: "3hive is updated daily with hand-picked music for you to enjoy. 3hive only links to free MP3s found on official artist or label websites.
See About for more."

dooce: I am much more scared of agendas than I am four-letter words. i love dooce.

EFF Store: Bill of Rights Card

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian, and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour.

Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre “speaks so much about the experience of being alienated, but contains so little writing by alienated people themselves.” It’s an oversight that Hopkinson and Mehan aim to correct with this anthology.

just looking up food stuff because i'm drinking a mt.DEW from a vending machine that is The Hulk themed.

Food Standards Agency - 'Best Before' dates

Journal of the American Dietetic Association: Food management practices used by people with limited resources to maintain food sufficiency as reported by nutrition educators - Perspectives in Practice: "Food management practices used by people with Limited resources to maintain food sufficiency: Manage food supply."

: : Speak Up > Tax Tips, Tricks & Techniques : : via a geeky chick

WebSE - System 7.0 - Test Drive a Macintosh... this is a nifty little Mac SE sim. I never had one of these things...i had a system that is usually forgotten and ignored buy everyone else, but it was in fact, one of the first home PCs with a GUI. May have been the first affordable 16-bit PC.

yes. i'm talking about the Atari 520 ST. oh yeah baby. And I had COLOR. Read it and weep macintoshers.

WORDPLAY/FADE IN:: "You finally found Wordplay. The two torn halves of the map fit, the right password was spoken to the man through the slot. You clicked your heels together, said the magic word ('mellon!'), answered the Sphinx, rejected the fourth wish. You made it. "

"Why you should never put your picture on the Internet ..." : via jenett

D I T H E R A T I

New Scientist: "Wing tags hinder penguins' breeding " via the boingiest boing in the world.

did we learn nothing from Rudolph the red nosed marketing concept? or high school? the poor tagged penguins probably don't get invited to parties. Spend all of their time smoking cloved anchovies. Writing bad penguin haiku.


no fish filled stomach
my brother is fat and strong
bet he gets the girl

The Village Voice: Features: The Jesus Landing Pad by Rick Perlstein

We Like The Moon - the Spongmonkeys try and cash in on the kittens' success - By Joel Veitch rathergood.com, song by Joel and Alex Veitch

just because i needed some joy.

Beyond the Blog | A Whole Lotta Features matts MT article.

RING RING RING RING RING RING RING BANANAPHONE

"it just makes you feel like dancing, doesn't it?"
-jason from blastednews.com

oh yes.
INDEED.

ThinkGeek :: Abusive Stamps :: Additional Images

Terror Alert Level: " hmmm "

The Real Reason Neanderthals went extinct.

WFTV.com - News - Man Arrested After Motel Room Is Coated In Vaseline thats a shame. Poor guy using vasoline...he should know that water based lubricants are waaaaay better.

Design Within Reach - Shop: Shelving/Storage - Collections
Quovis drool, drool, drool.

Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee: "He was kind, he was gentle, he never raised his voice. Now Harry Hicks is a murder victim, and people who knew him cannot understand why."

Harry mowed the lawns where i do freelance work. Never talked to him since i'm always the busy guy walking in and out but he had a pleasant vibe about him.

people wonder why i think our society is messed up.

Michaels - The Arts and Crafts Store art store research 2

Utrecht Online Art Store art store research

New Scientist: "A new model of the way the Earth interacts with the solar wind indicates that a replacement field will form in the upper atmosphere during the switch.
Scientists had previously thought that the planet would be left without a protective shield to stop lethal radiation from space reaching the surface."

thats the best news i've had all day.

Stalking the Bogeyman
Coming to grips with the killer inside me.
BY DAVID HOLTHOUSE
"This time last year I was plotting to kill a man."

wow.

Hillbilly Housewife Loyd, yours is way better.

SYMBOLS.com: Easy Graphic Search: "To find information on any of the 2,500 symbols contained in the encyclopedia, use this step by step table. Specify the graphic characteristics of the sign you are looking for simply by answering the questions."

On being gay | A Whole Lotta Nothing matt filters the filter down to gems.

Beetle Ghraib real life is still more surreal.

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com: "After exchanging blows, the priest whipped out a 9mm pistol and fired four bullets into Lorenzo Ruiz, mayor of Chalpatlahuac, an indigenous town nestled in mountains 138 miles west of the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo, authorities said." thats why i never drink with a priest.

Prof. Ehud Shapiro - Press Releases: "In one series of test-tube experiments, the team programmed the computer to identify RNA molecules that indicate the presence of prostate cancer and, following a correct diagnosis, to release the short DNA strands designed to kill cancer cells. Similarly, they were able to identify, in the test tube, the signs of one form of lung cancer. One day in the future, they hope to create a �doctor in a cell�, which will be able to operate inside a living body, spot disease and apply the necessary treatment before external symptoms even appear." via b to the oin to the g, squared.

Swatch - Bunny Sutra

The Complex Now

Burgerville - Where you go when you know wish they had some in california.

MMMMGood! the secret monkey lab has launched their secret project!

Please Write More About Rape / Will sucking down endless stories of tragedy and war and BushCo poison the human soul?: "Real life is not in BushCo's blank confused smirk. Real life is where you launch forth, right now, just after this period coming up, this one right here. "

HHMI News: Analysis Uncovers Critical Stretches of Human Genome: "�What really surprised us was that when we included the chicken genome in this comparison, we found that nearly all these regions still showed amazingly high levels of conservation,� he said. �In 29 cases it was 100%. This, despite the fact that the common ancestor of chickens, rodents, and humans is thought to have lived about 300 million years ago,� he said."

Art Direction and the Web: A List Apartvia kottkebudha

Unqualified Offerings: "Don't take this wrong, _____, but fuck your own voice."

its nine naked men, walking down the road, we'll cause a heap of trouble, walking down the road.....i have to go...walk....

Media Revolt: A Manifesto

GDI Summer 2004 guerilla drive-n. santa cruz style.

Harmon Leon once upon a time i had what was most likely to the closest to a "cubicle" job as i will ever get. I felt like i was in costume, every day. Sitting here in my dungarees and they might be giants t-shirt, this is the real me. albeit a poorer me.

anyways, this guy harmon leon does the SAME thing, over and over, and he gets paid for it!

Modbee.com | The Modesto Bee A man tried to rape an 18-year-old woman Thursday afternoon as she walked alone in a north Modesto neighborhood, a few blocks from where five other women have been sexually

note to passerbys...if you see a naked or mostly naked guy, he probably isn't armed. get out of your car, with your cell phone, and hit him with your jumper cables or something.

Burglar caught while using the bathroom


well, Hello. anyone who has ever seen pulp fiction knows that you don't use the bathroom while working. bad things result.

Collaborations art book heaven.

HOW magazine - Graphic design books, magazines, competitions and conferences

Photoshop Tutorials, Free Fonts, QuarkXPress, Graphics Tutorials

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp awesome site, read about "three paintings". via the kottkyist.

Flash Art International - Tara Donovan, interview by Sarah Douglas

Shakespeare's Hokey Pokey [rec.humor.funny]: "Shakespeare's Hokey Pokey
as submitted by Jeff Brechlin, Potomac Falls

O proud left foot, that ventures quick within
Then soon upon a backward journey lithe.
Anon, once more the gesture, then begin:
Command sinistral pedestal to writhe.

Commence thou then the fervid Hokey-Poke,
A mad gyration, hips in wanton swirl.
To spin! A wilde release from Heavens yoke.
Blessed dervish! Surely canst go, girl.

The Hoke, the poke--banish now thy doubt
Verily, I say, 'tis what it's all about"

Comics Code

New Scientist

RFC 1855: Netiquette Guidelines

Wired 12.05: The Doctor Will Freeze You Now

i can't type WOW big enough.

Brutal Honesty | Metafilter: "Another human dead in a senseless war. He may have killed. He was killed. One wonders at the uniforms clothing the dead, rotting away, under the cleansing soil.
posted by fold_and_mutilate at 11:50 AM PST on May 4 "

A Work In Progress: And Backvia loyd

Animal Tool Use