A Funkaoshi Production

This is a great little story.

Republicans are such two-faced assholes.

Gawker was taken to school by a group of hackers. I’m surprised at how horrible their security set up was considering they were openly belligerent to 4chan.

Hint: it certainly wasn’t Rob Ford.

Last year’s climate summit in Copenhagen was a political disaster. Leaked US diplomatic cables now show why the summit failed so spectacularly. The dispatches reveal that the US and China, the world’s top two polluters, joined forces to stymie every attempt by European nations to reach agreement.

A short essay on one of J.D. Salinger’s under-published stories. (People refer to his works that were published in magazines but never collected into books as ‘under’ published.) I’m not sure how hard it is to find these works now. I have all of them, thanks to a shady Russian website that no longer exists. I’ve had them for ages now, but have never got around to reading them. I need to change that. I think i’m over my aversion to reading on a computer.

Cassa Pancho created a ballet company to “provide dancers and students of black and Asian descent with inspiring opportunities in classical ballet”.

That sounds about right.

A response (and agreement) of a much longer article in the American Prospect that casts Florida as a bit of a charlatan.

This is quite impressive.

This is both creepy and hilarious: “The Department of Homeland Security and Wal-Mart have announced a partnership to promote the recent ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign, which urges citizens to report ‘suspicious activity.’”

Holy shit: what a train wreck. He should stick to complaining about Europeans.

Our god damn mayor: “As you know, there was never a vote on council for Transit City, and if there was I’d like to see that.” I love how the Globe reports the crap that comes out of Ford’s mouth without any real fact checking. Ford skipped the meeting where council voted to fund Transit City.

A very detailed behind the scenes look at Gawker, as it readies itself for a big relaunch.

Dailey was the voice of CityTV. His death is a real shame.

Huraki Murakami shares his thoughts on fiction.

Google enters the eBook game. Well, at least for those of you in the US.

A lovely story. The rest of the blog is well worth a read.

Shima sometimes tries to translate her Persian sayings into English, with little luck.

A look at the market for fine art photography and the sorry-state of Annie Leibovitz’s finances.

A worshiper at a California mosque called frequently for violent jihad against the West. This freaked out his fellow attendees so much that they took out a restraining order on him… and learned he was an informant planted by the FBI.

The FBI seems to be on an entrapment roll recently.

Learn math by ignoring your teachers and scribbling in your notebook instead.If you like this your might also enjoy her Mathematical Foods.

Some are better than others.