Man! This guy is just SO good!

Willy DeVille RIP

US singer songwriter Willy DeVille, who headed the 1970s New York punk group Mink DeVille before going solo and taking new directions, has died at the age of 55, his French tour organiser said Friday.

"Willy DeVille this night joined Edith Piaf, Jack Nitzsche and Johnny Thunders", said Caramba Spectacles, referring respectively to the French star who inspired him, to his producer, and to a fellow-70s punk guitarist.

His wife had announced in June that DeVille had pancreatic cancer.

Sex Pistol's Jubilee boat trip 1977

DDoS attacks cause Twitter to collapse

High-profile websites including Google, Facebook and Twitter have been targeted by hackers in what is described as a "massively co-ordinated attack".

Other sites such as blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted in the attack on Thursday. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.

@ 'BBC' @'Computerworld'

cyxymu's site still down

A bright future!

Via 'Philly Burbs'
Wicked smile, this kid will go far!

Save the world - pee in the shower!

Nokia - shooting people

Jerry Garcia @ Woodstock

Gog? Magog? Agog!

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

Full story here.
(Collage by Jonathan Yeo.)

Detail.

WTF!!! No really- WTF!!!

Limbaugh: "The Obama health care logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo"

Do he and his pals also think that the U.S. Army medical corps are like Nazis too?
@ 'Daily Kos'

Dear god, this is absolutely disgusting...

(Thanx to 'YesButNoButYes')

Ronnie Biggs set free

Full story @ 'BBC'

But...

Hiroshima, 64 years ago today...

Green baloons in BBC Persian TV live broadcast

ر هنگام پخش زنده برنامه شصت دقیقه تلویزیون بی بی سی فارسی در روز 14 مرداد 88 برابر با 5 اوت 2009، و در روز تحلیف محمود احمدی نژاد، تعدادی از معترضان به نتیجه انتخابات بادکنک ها و پارچه سبزی را به هوا فرستادند که برای چند ثانیه در تصویر دیده میشد. مجری برنامه مجبور شد دوبار در برنامه این اتفاق را توضیح دهد.