Day: November 25, 2003

Cold English robot vs hot Spanish pussy

This is so silly I can’t believe anyone’s taking it seriously. Go on, be non-biologically determinist about this: what would you prefer on your desktop, Ms D from sensual Barcelona or Ms Inkha (website) from adjective-free London? Via BoingBoing.

eurogek

Persbericht van de (legale) Baskische separatisten, de PNV: de Commissie Regionaal Beleid, Vervoer en Toerisme heeft een amendement van hun Josu Ortuondo aangenomen, zodat alle schepen die onder de vlag van een lidstaat zeilen straks een versie met een toegevoegde Brusselse stralenkrans moeten gebruiken (leze: minder ruimte voor de Spaanse vlag). Nu gaat u nog…

kigurumi

Humans vestits com dibuixos animats; també hi ha una versió adulta. Via Fleshbot.

on the job with a taliban recruiter

An interesting article by Massoud Ansari in The Asia Times highlights the role of Pakistani madrassas in ongoing recruitment: Says Haji Sardar Lashkari, a former provincial minister in Balochistan: “How is it possible for senior Taliban leaders and the likes of Mullah Dadullah and other most-wanted Taliban remnants to come to Pakistan quite often, convince…

Rooftop virgins

Despite the Grimms’ usual fiddling, Rapunzel remains – as Violet Bergen notes in a fine article – a story suffused with powerful Biblical imagery, most of it Old Testament in origin. The New Testament’s most famous virgin usually parades with her head covered, but on the cross-vaulting of the C15th cloisters of the monastery of…