Kate sent me this story. Apparently fistulas are a big problem in Sierra Leone…this is a disturbing and inspiring story…. The Illiterate Surgeon – New York Times
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What's up with Fukn Us?
Hey…what’s up with fukn us? you may be asking. Fukn.us is in the process of becoming more than you can imagine. Thus far fukn us has mostly been fukn me, chris damitio. I’ve tried to create a bit of an exciting and informative online circus with monkeys, scary clowns, scary politicians, and hopefully informative and…
Toilet Restaurant
Customers place their orders from a row of toilets at Marton, Taiwan’s most recent hit theme restaurant, (named after the Chinese word Matong, meaning toilet), Sunday, May 29, 2005, in Taiwan’s southern port city of Khaohsiung. The restaurant’s toilet theme has become so popular serving light meals and ice-cream treats in western and Asian style…
Richard Serra: Torqued Ellipses Essay
Above,visitors walk through massive steel sculpture by American artist Richard Serra during a special preview at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, northern Spain, June 3, 2005. The installation ‘The Matter of Time’, based on Serra’s theories of ‘Torqued ellipses’, opens to the public on June 8 and will be a permanent feature of the museum….
Neri Sculpture: The Writer
A hiker passes by a Neri sculpture….
Naked cyclists seek to reclaim Spanish streets – Yahoo! News
Fuk yeah! Naked Critical Mass….. Naked cyclists seek to reclaim Spanish streets – Yahoo! News
Business As Usual Means 28 Million Dead Children
If development in Africa continues in a business as usual manner, sub-Saharan Africa will reach the UN Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality not by 2015 as targeted but a century later, a study says. DEVELOPMENT: Business As Usual Means 28 Million Dead Children If development in Africa continues in a business as usual…
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Groups Say UK-US Aid Falls Woefully Short
The richest countries in the world need to do more to help the poorest countries in the world. There is no doubt about that. My consciousness is more aware of Africa than ever before mainly because Kate is working there for the next several months. This has resulted in my paying attention to what is…
The Birds are gettting Meaner….
Watch out…bird attacks are way up….those nice Pigeons in the park might just open up a can of whoop-ass… Close encounters of the fluttering kind: a rise in bird attacks | csmonitor.com
Boing Boing: Hunter S Thompson tribute beers with Steadman labels
HST and Beers! Boing Boing: Hunter S Thompson tribute beers with Steadman labels