Archive for December, 2008
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Anti-Warming Ninja Strikes Coal Plant
Friday, November 28th: The £12m defences of the most heavily guarded power station in Britain have been breached by a single person who, under the eyes of CCTV cameras, climbed two three-metre (10ft) razor-wired, electrified security fences, walked into the station and crashed a giant 500MW turbine before leaving a calling card reading “no new [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Political by Magpie
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Skinning a Mouse on Thursday
It was raining today, so I didn’t really feel like going anywhere. Fortunately, my friend decided to skin the mouse that the cat had killed. I took pictures of the process. Note that these pictures are not for the squeemish, like me.
5 Comments » - Posted in Photo Essay by Magpie
Monday, December 8th, 2008
Kopbusters
About a month ago, we learned that reality TV had hit bottom, with the announcement of Smile, You’re Under Arrest, a reality show from Fox (of course) in which people with warrants are tricked into believing it will be the best day of their lives, only to discover it is actually the worst, as they [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Random by Magpie
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Reasons To Live To Be Old
I want to be around when this happens. Not that I have anything against Warsaw in particular, mind you. It’s just, so beautiful. (I found this image on darkroastedblend, but I can’t figure out where they found it.)
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I Will Marry You If We Can Honeymoon In Socotra*
(Photo by Jan Vandorpe) So there’s this archipelago, Socotra, in the Indian Ocean. And near as I can figure out, everything there is amazing and beautiful and wonderful, at least visually. There are 40,000 people but they only put roads in two years ago. There aren’t any fancy oceanside resorts, though it caters to eco-tourism. [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Personal by Magpie
Monday, December 1st, 2008
Book – Liberation, by Brian Francis Slattery
Just finished reading Liberation: Being The Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America, and it’s a fine, fine book. Essentially a pulp adventure story, but quite politically aware, this book is about, well, the aftermath of an economic collapse of the United States. But one of the most [...]
