Sunday 5 July 2009

Beatles/Clash Rubik Cubes by Invader

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Saturday 4 July 2009

>Mir Hossein Mousavi میر حسین موسوی The assembly of teachers and scientists of "Qom" cleric school, declaring this election to be ilegitimate. بیانیه مجمع مدرسین و محققین حوزه علمیه درباره عدم مشروعیت انتخابات
Source: www.majmaqom.com
چهارمین بیانیه مجمع مدرسین و محققین حوزه علمیه قم در اعتراض به تأیید دهمین انتخابات ریاست جمهوری اسلامی ایران از سوی شورای نگهبان

On whether she should resign...


"Four yeses and one ‘Hell, yeah!’ "
GOV. SARAH PALIN on the results of a family poll on whether she should resign.

(I agree! With the thought that you can get between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars per speaking engagement, please just go away, speak and count up yr dollars!
The thought of you using that as a war-chest for and then winning the election in 2012
has almost made me not think about my virus for a second!
America - You canot be that stupid, can you?
Answers on a postcard to....)

@/Bella - have fun at the all women 'roller-skate derby'...Skate Bush indeed!!!

Girlz With Guitarz # 2

Gratuitous nudity to try and keep my mind off that bloody virus!
Is it working?
Well...
NO!
Thanx again HerrB!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Trojan Agent 118946. You are a malicious little fucker aren't you?

I has a computer virus, back ASAP...

Friday 3 July 2009

Russell Mill's recent commission for Fellini's Restaurant and Cinema, Ambleside

Festina Lente #1 (Hasten Slowly), 2009. 48 x 60 inches (122 x 152.5 cms). Earth, plaster, ash, haematite, silver leaf, liver of sulphur, mica, oils, acrylics, varnish on canvas.

Festina Lente #2 (Hasten Slowly), 2009. 48 x 60 inches (122 x 152.5 cms). Earth, plaster, ash, haematite, gold leaf, liver of sulphur, mica, oils, acrylics, varnish on canvas.

Festina Lente #3 (Hasten Slowly), 2009. 48 x 60 inches (122 x 152.5 cms). Earth, plaster, ash, haematite, silver leaf, liver of sulphur, mica, oils, acrylics, varnish on canvas.

Smoking # 23

Scots take 'sun-fry' cancer risk

Story at the 'BBC' here.

The bongo-beat generation

Lego people perform 'Thriller'

Free Ronnie Biggs...


An inhumane decision by British Home Secretary Jack Straw...he's served his time for inflicting that record with The Sex Pistols on us!

Iran continued...


Freedom Glory Project - Freedom, Glory Be Our Name

New Internet Explorer ad!!!

Thursday 2 July 2009

Girlz With Guitarz # 1

David Fullarton



"About four years ago I got someone to build me a fancy website, but because it was fancy I couldn’t update it myself, so it just kind of sat there, being fancy but fairly useless. Then, because I couldn’t update it I started posting new work to other websites, like this one. Well, my website is still fancy and largely unchanged, but I finally worked out a way to make it at least useful. So now there’s just this page here that will take you other sites that I regularly update and are much more interesting, though less fancy.
Right now I’m enjoying the kind of fleeting but deep satisfaction you get in the aftermath of re-organizing your underwear drawer."

REPOST - The Mighty Tack>>Head in the area

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You can get these Tackhead 12" singles here.
(Image and link thanx to 'Sickness Abounds'.)

More to follow including Tackhead - live At The Old Greek Theatre, Melbourne 1989.

Arrested, beaten and raped: an Iran protester's tale

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 July 2009 16.46 BST

He came to my shop around 10.30am. You could tell straight away that he had just been released. His face was bruised all over. His teeth were broken and he could hardly open his eyes.

He was not even into politics. He was just an ordinary 18-year-old in the last year of school. Before the election he came to me and asked how he should vote. He looks up to me. His father is an Ahmadinejad supporter.

He had gone home directly after his release, but his father did not let him in. He didn't mention he had been raped. At first, he didn't tell me either. It was the doctor who first noticed it and told me.

When he came to my shop he collapsed in a chair. He said he had nowhere to go and asked if he could stay with me. I called a friend of mine who is a doctor to come home and see him. Then I brought him home.

His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said.

Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately.

They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself.

He was arrested in Shiraz on 15 June, the Monday after the election. Some sturdy young men made a human shield around the demonstrators. He was among them. He said he managed to hit some of the anti-riot police. But then they caught him and beat him up.

"I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables.

"They gave us warm water to drink and one meal a day. Repeated smacking was a regular punishment. In interrogations, they kept on asking if I was instructed from abroad. I believed I was going to be sent from the detention centre to prison. But they sent me to where they called Roughnecks' Room. There were some other youths of my age in there. I asked a guard why I am not sent to prison and the reply was: 'You have to be our guest for a while.'

"I refused to confess during interrogations. They said: 'Ask your friends what we'll do to you if you don't co-operate.' Others in the room were also arrested on 15 June. I was tempted to confess at this point but I didn't. On the third and fourth day, they beat me up again. They insisted we were instructed from abroad. I kept on saying we were only protesting for our votes.

"It was on Saturday or Sunday that they raped me for the first time. There were three or four huge guys we had not seen before. They came to me and tore my clothes. I tried to resist but two of them laid me on the floor and the third did it. It was done in front of four other detainees.

"My cell mates, especially the older one, tried to console me. They said nobody loses his dignity through such an act. They did it to two other cell mates in the next days. Then it became a routine. We were so weak and beaten up that could not do anything.

"Then the interrogations started again. They said: 'If you don't come to your senses we will send you to Adel Abad [another prison in Shiraz] to the pederasts' section so that you receive such treatment every day.' I was so weak I did not know what to say. Then they asked for my contacts. I told them I had no contacts and I was informed about the demonstrations through the internet.

"The same routine was continued till this morning when I was released. In the last week, there was no interrogation, no beating. Only rape and solitary confinement."

This is what he recounted. But he couldn't articulate quite like this. He was in much physical and mental pain as he talked. I asked him to tell his story in the hope of making a difference to those still detained.

• Esfandiar Poorgiv is a pseudonym.

Prefab Sprout (for Simon @ dddd!)


Faron Young


Appetite


When Love Breaks Down

The trousers, the mo!
Oh...but the tunes!

Sage advice from Mogodonia

Five Alternatives To The Pirate Bay

feastingonroadkill:

Just in case. via here

Gotta admit, Mr Feastingonroadkill cherishes his Demonoid Membership..

1. Mininova

MiniNova is perhaps the most well known in the BitTorrent community. It was formed after the demise of SuprNova by ex-SuprNova staff members. It’s not hard to argue that this was the best site that replaced SuprNova. It indexes .torrent files from other sites, so some of the .torrents are from private sites that only allow members of those sites to download the given files. Still, the site is moderated and well-used by members and, with the release of their distribution network, content creators alike.

2. Demonoid

There’s been some debate in the past on whether or not this is a public or private site, though many would agree that this would be classified as semi-private given how often sign-ups are open. Whether or not you agree with this kind of torrent site, Demonoid has a huge following backing them and a number of it’s users would no doubt defend it’s viability as an alternative to The Pirate Bay.

3. ISOHunt

ISOHunt, like MinoNova, has had it’s share of legal trouble in the past and agreed to filtering content. Still, a number of users still use that site for finding what they want and it has stayed being one of the most populated sites online to this day.

4. 1337x

1337x.org is a lesser known BitTorrent site. Still, that hasn’t stopped their front page from saying “we don’t plan on selling anytime soon.”

MustangX continues, “We welcome all the users of TPB to use our trackers and site. It’s a free leech community with NO ratios to maintain, we have a web based chat , A 24/7 radio station with 8 different DJ’s.”

5. BTJunkie

BTJunkie is another site that is well-populated with users, but not as well known as sites like MiniNova and ISOHunt. Still, many users still find this place to be a torrent home or even a second torrent home when another of their preferred sites goes down or inaccessible on their end.”

Thanx again HerrB!

Karl Malden - RIP


Here we go again...


Iran 'disqualifies' EU from talks

Iran police: most people detained in unrest freed@Reuters

FTW - I just had to brush my cat....

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Paul Kelly - 'S' downloads

A to Z - “S”
A shitload, a swarm, a sibilance, a storm, a (t)sunami of “S”s for all you sweethearts this month. Dan Kelly helps me out on a few, Sian Prior plays clarinet on Summer Rain and Trev Warner from Adelaide plays mandolin on Stumbling Block.
Surely God Was A Lover is based on a poem by John Shaw Neilson written around a hundred years ago. Sydney From A 747 dips the hat to the elusive Texan band The Flatlanders, and their song Dallas From A DC9.
Suck ‘em and see. Shake the sauce bottle and all that. There’s a ton of Ts coming so make some room on those hard drives.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
SMOKE UNDER THE BRIDGE
SOMEWHERE IN THE CITY
SONGS OF THE OLD RAKE
SOUTH OF GERMANY
STANDING ON THE STREET OF EARLY SORROWS
STORIES OF ME
STUMBLING BLOCK
SUMMER RAIN
SURELY GOD WAS A LOVER
SWEET GUY
SYDNEY FROM A 747

Available
HERE

“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.” - Plato.

Samavayo - Teheran Girl



The jury is out on the Iranian model of religion and politics/RobertFisk

What goes on behind bars in Iran?

Story at 'Revolutionary Road' here.

The Ruts - Babylon's Burning

Bonus:Audio
Babylon's Burning/ Dub

'Think I'm in love...'

Story That Takes 1,000 Years to Read Is Antidote to Media Whirlwind


San Francisco conceptual artist and journalist Jonathon Keats is trying to rejuvenate literature in the age of hyperspeed media by writing a story that will take a millennium to tell.

The catch? The story, printed on the cover of the recently released Infinity issue of Opium Magazine, is only nine words long.

“I’m interested in exploring deep time,” the thought experimentalist and Wired contributor explained in an e-mail to Wired.com during a visit to Europe, where he is probably concocting a scheme to wormhole Paris or something.

“Like most people, I live my life in a rush, consuming media on the run,” said Keats, who has copyrighted his mind, tried to pass a Law of Identity and attempted to genetically engineer God.

“That may be fine for reading the average blog,” he said, “but something essential is lost when ingesting words is all about speed. My thousand-year story is an antidote. Given the printing process I’ve used, you can’t take in more than one word per century. That’s even slower than reading Proust.”

The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century.

“The precise quantity of ink covering each word is different, so that the words will appear one at a time,” Keats said. “Provided that your copy of Opium is kept out in the open, and regularly exposed to sunlight over 1,000 years to be read progressively by the next dozen or so generations. Or very, very slowly if you happen to be Ray Kurzweil.”

The odds are very good that Keats’ brainy game will outlive print itself, at least as far as magazines are concerned. But will the pages of Opium last long enough for his story to be told?

“The high-quality acid-free paper on which Opium is printed will certainly last that long,” Keats answered. “Whether humankind will, of course, remains an open question.”

"What goes around..."

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Girlz With Gunz # 61 (Sarah Palin profiled in 'Vanity Fair')

Disturbing reading!
Here.

Iran update - Revolution 2.0

A placard displayed during a demonstration opposite the Iranian embassy in London last Friday.
Neda, Obama and the Power of Pictures



As Nico put it: "More video emerges of the brave government security officials who roam around attacking inanimate objects."

3:37 PM ET -- Suspicious ballot photos posted by Iran state media? A reader writes, "I believe this is well worth reporting: many interesting photos are being put on the web as I write, a good number of them published by IRNA itself (see here). These are images from the recent Guardians Council TV broadcast session where they 'recounted' some ballot boxes and found out that indeed Ahmadinejad's votes were higher than previously counted. These pictures show two things very clearly: 1) that a whole lot of the ballots that are being recounted are fresh, crisp, unfolded sheets - which makes no sense, given that people typically had to fold these sheets before they can slip them into the ballot boxes, and 2) that the handwriting on so many of the sheets which are votes for 'Ahmadinejad' are the same handwriting (and very clearly so)."




Via HuffPo

After the Crackdown: Iran's Opposition Down but Hardly Out@Time


More photos here.