Dead Or Alive?

For all your celebrity deathwatch needs.

Via Laughing Squid.

The Impossible Art of Li Wei

Rotten Tomatoes Obscura

"RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems."

If you're unfamiliar with Mr Newman, try here.

Cardiff Public Library made to look like shelf of books

Nice idea - just a pity I see nothing there I'd actually want to read. Perhaps that was the artist's point.

20 Abandoned Cities and Towns

Via things magazine.

10 Racist Toys

See also, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

Via goatmilk.

Brockenspectre

Wikipedia's list of fictional diseases

Found following a link about pathohetorodoxy, though that particular ailment doesn't seem to be in the list any more.

Ah, WikiLists. Eek, Gynoids!

Cellphone in microwave
Ah, right, so that's why they rot your brain.

Ghostly Thai lightbulb ad

Via Flogging Babel.

Famous Magazine Covers

Kay-Tel!

A fascinating resource of compilation albums from this company (and others). Worth a visit just for the covers. Back in the 70s, they certainly thought "Tracklist written on buttock" was an idea too good to be used just the once. And who's this supposed to appeal to?

Below is the first album I owned. I was eleven. I had the cassette.



Via Ausrock.

*snickers*

In early May, the Top 100 list was mentioned on the front page of Zaman, a Turkish daily newspaper closely aligned with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Within hours, votes in his favor began to pour in. His supporters - typically educated, upwardly mobile Muslims - were eager to cast ballots not only for their champion but for other Muslims in the Top 100. Thanks to this groundswell, the top 10 public intellectuals in this year’s reader poll are all Muslim. The ideas for which they are known, particularly concerning Islam, differ significantly. It’s clear that, in this case, identity politics carried the day.

Right, so "Top Public Intellectual" is just like Eurovision.

Full List

Amusing to see that Orientalist idiot Bernard Lewis get beaten by ten Muslims and Noam Chomsky (and Al Gore). Not so amusing to see him ranked so high.

Stephen Colbert was most popular write-in candidate. My five picks came 12th, 52nd, 31st (just edging out the Pope), 14th and 45th respectively - go TEAM!

Via Goatmilk.

Looking for the late Bruce Connor's video for Mongoloid, instead I found Youtomb.

"I'm not here to make friends."

Vias at link.

Land of the Free

Steve Schofield's portraits of cosplayers at home.

Via wemakemoneynotart.