flickering pictures

You know the old joke: “What do you get when you cross Vincent Price, Michael Jackson, 1,500 Filipino inmates and a transvestite?”
I think I missed the boat on this one, and some of you have probably already seen this. But sweet mercy it’s fantastic. If you ever go to jail in the Philippines, […]

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Brazilians, Italians and Brits all claim to be the world’s biggest sports fans, but flag-waving and beer-swilling is lightweight stuff compared to this guy’s latest stunt. Looking to show off his patriotism and his excitement for the upcoming Beijing Olympics, a Chinese man named Wei Sheng did the natural thing and jabbed 2008 pushpins […]

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Burmese ex-pat women are taking advantage of their ruling military leaders’ anti-panty superstitions to turn subjugation into subversion, resulting in one of the neatest political write-in campaigns I’ve ever heard of. So far, women across Europe, Brazil, Canada, the Philippines and Singapore are taking part.
From the Panties for Peace Canada website:

The Panties for Peace […]

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I see a lot of neat stuff on the Web, but this really hit me.
The brilliant gang at Mental Floss somehow discovered an anonymous beta site featuring 6,000 scanned polaroids — one taken each day from March 31, 1979 to October 25, 1997. Some impressive detective work by the Mental Floss crew turned up […]

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Looking for hockey coverage, I came across an excellent Boston Globe feature on David Farmer, a Boston doctor who set up a free hospital in one of the Rwandan regions hardest hit by the 1994 genocide that killed 800,000 people, mostly by machete.

Farmer, who teaches at Harvard, was taken to Ruhengeri, in the country’s northwest […]

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The United Steelworkers of Montreal bring their urban hillbilly stylings to the Cabaret Juste Pour Rire this Saturday, and no matter what you think of bluegrass, there’s no better music to drink and stomp your foot to. It’s scientific.
If you haven’t heard their stuff, check out some reviews or peruse their Myspace page. […]

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Thanks for putting up with two days of slow posting — we got back to town yesterday after two glorious days and nights of fine dining and rural relaxation, and I’m still so full of good food that I can hardly move, let alone write.
If you’re not far from southern Quebec and are looking to […]

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