Reprinted from Not!1982, the Not the Nine O'Clock News calendar/almanac, here's The Skinhead Hamlet.

Via theinferior4+1.

Some more HDR goodness:

Simon Crubellier

A r l e t t e

extranoise

gari.baldi

Christopher Chan

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iseemooi

anthonyko

At Youtube (I suspect this is going to become one of the most re-subtitled scenes in cinema history): Hillary's Downfall. Don't click if you have a problem with bad language, or angry Germans, or people being "compared to Hitler".

Via Dennis an' IOZ an' Jonathan an' ev'ybody.

John Scalzi, Charles Stross and Ken Macleod play the Amazon one-star review game with their own works.

Can't believe I didn't see this earlier:

In a story about Hillary Clinton challenging Barack Obama to a “Lincoln/Douglas style debate”, the geniuses at Fox News accidentally used a photo of Frederick Douglas:

Genius, indeed.

Nightmare Playgrounds Part 1 and 2

Via the boings.

HDR Shots of Sydney



Those of you who aren't fans of the Psychedelic Middle Earth school of High Dynamic Range photography might not like Mr Kess' pics, but I think they're brilliant. Be sure to check out his famous shot of the Miranda Fair carpark.

Great God! This is an awful list. (Here if you don't want the fancy voting panel which disappears once you've voted.) I mean, seriously - Thomas Friedman? Pope Benedict XVI? Larry Fucking Summers?

Via Unspeak.

Alright, if you must know - I voted for Chompers, Lawrence Lessig, Jared Diamond, Umberto Eco, and Tony Judt (because if Richard Dawkins gets any more publicity his head will explode). Then I wrote in Thomas Frank just to be irritating.

Drumbeats of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation No.3,876,262



Via theinferior4+1.

Uçhisar Castle

The map's not that interesting, but the comment thread is hilarious.

Slower to this than usual, but here's GeoGreeting.

Via Eyeteeth.

Via the boings, this is tres cool - a Jack Chick style comic book history of LSD.

Just a reminder: 360° Cities

At Nitrome: Dirk Valentine, Chaingun Wielding Steampunk Hero.

Via Brass Goggles, of course.

Please do not write below the line

Barack Obama, Klingon

Plus a few others.

Via A Tiny Revolution.

Slow motion face slap.

Creepy follow-the-mouse avatar.

Via TomDispatch, the animated version of the graphic novel version of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States American Empire.

Oh, did I mention -

FAFBLOG!!!!!!

Raed Jarrar:

I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”

Yes, I believe that's how they caught Dillinger.

Meanwhile, FAFBLOG!

Top Ten Sweded Films

This was, like, so totally posted on the 1st.

Yes, folks, we've been here five years. Cue David Bowie. Thanks, Dave!

And, yes, folks, I couldn't be bothered waiting until the actual day to post this.

There's another five year anniversary I could have mentioned this month, but I try to steer clear of angry rants on this weblog. They're for elsewhere.

Here's a song for that one. Yes, I know it's not really about Iraq. The lead singer should send a memo to the guitarist.

Kinetic Typography

See also:

Top 12 kinetic typography films at The Place João Bordalo Calls Home

15 stunning motion typography videos at Marco Folio

(and via) Great scenes from television and film told using only typography at Always Watching