What The World Eats: Photo Essay

Series of photos of families from around the world posing with a weeks worth of food

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide

Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07
Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding


Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp

Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep meat

View more: Time Magazine
Via J-Walk Blog

White House hands guided Justice Department business.

Vice President Dick Cheney opposed a promotion for a deputy involved in a heated dispute with the White House over the legality of a controversial domestic surveillance program, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told senators.

Responding to written questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Comey implicated Cheney's office in thwarting the appointment of Patrick Philbin as deputy solicitor general in the wake of the dispute over the National Security Agency surveillance program.

"I understood that someone at the White House communicated to Attorney General [Alberto] Gonzales that the vice president would oppose the appointment if the attorney general pursued the matter," Comey wrote. "The attorney general chose not to pursue it."

Via cnn

Women Portraits Of Western Art

This is just great... A superb collection of women portraits from about 500 years.

Via thereallinda

60% of americans are idiots

According to an ABC News poll, 60 percent of Americans believe God created the world in six days. In Petersburg, Ky., this weekend, a creation museum is opening that depicts a story far from what you may have learned in science class.

Exhibits at almost every natural history museum teach that dinosaurs are millions of years old, and that they died out long before human beings existed. But at the Creation Museum, they say God created dinosaurs and humans at the same time.

The Creation Museum, designed by the same man behind some of the attractions at Universal Studios in Florida, is a $27 million, high-tech sensory experience with animatronic dinosaurs and a movie theater with seats that shake.

The museum is intended to convince visitors that evolution is wrong and that the biblical story of life on earth from Adam and Eve to Noah's ark is scientifically verifiable.

The museum depicts Adam living with animals, including a dinosaur.

Read more Via ABC news
and check out this archived post
National Geographic Reports: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries

Boy, 11, shoots 1,051 pound hog

An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.

read more via cnn

Dick Dale Reminder

great comments on this video from youtube:
7 words- How the fuck does he DO that????-richintalent

when was this song written? it sounds like Muse, Stokholme Syndrome.-tb2k3

DICK DALE HANGS 11 hes one better than anyone else on surf guitar I dont care if he plays left handed and strings his guitar upside down! Hail the king of surf!-namnoiz

btw .. its not restrung .. he plays it backwards, left handed
May 31 2007 North Star Bar Philadelphia
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Running the Numbers

An interesting series of large scale photos by chris jordan examining life in the US. This one, depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.



View more in the series here

Decline and fall of the neocons

An excellent article from the Times of London on what Paul Wolfowitz’s ousting from the world bank means for the Neocon movement.

"As Tony Blair was bidding farewell to President George W Bush in the Rose Garden on Thursday, the World Bank was preparing to kick out Paul Wolfowitz as president. Allies to the left and right in the Iraq war were falling by the wayside that day.

Was he responsible for Blair’s departure from office, Bush was asked. There had to be a reason why a prime minister who had never lost an election was being dumped. “Could be . . . I don’t know,” the president mused above the distant chant of war protesters outside the White House gates."

Read the article

My favorite comment was this:

The chickens have finally come home to roost. I believe all of this ---- the Iraq War; the Patriot Act (nothing but an onslaught on the basic liberties of all US citizens under the guise of security); Rumsfeld and Cheney their cronies; Tony Blair, etc , are by products of the coup d'e'tat in 2000. Yes, it happened in America, except the clothing was expensive business suits instead of GI uniforms.

Whoever heard of an election decided by the state governed by the sibling of the winner (under suspicious circumstances) and certified by appointees of the winner's Father? The people of the USA should never again refer to another country as a "banana republic". This will be one of US history's most shameful administrations.

Costco recalls punching bags filled with soiled underwear

Turns out the underwear filled punching bag was not an isolated case, and Costco is recalling the punching bags manufactured by TKO Sports.

Dear Costco Member:

We are issuing this voluntary recall notice for the TKO Sports Heavy Punching Bag with Speed Bag Combination, manufactured by TKO Sports, of Houston, TX. We have learned that the fill material in the heavy punching bag does not meet our high quality standards.

Read the rest of the recall notice
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Family learns punching bag is filled with dirty underwear

Great Headline : Paris Hilton Drops Appeal

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