a shameful waste of madhouse time

came across this on my Google reader…guess the site’s supposed to use video and some other bells and whistles to make you feel like you can shop Shanghai’s stores without actually boarding the plane.

Pearl | Shopping pearl at ShangBy.com via kwout

anyway, you can buy pearls and some other stuff. don’t know if it’s all [...]

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this is just something of a test to see how much of the html and javascript works from within the kwout.

Peijin Chen | Photography via kwout

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OK, so first there were screenshots, and then there were programs that DropimageURL that just turned the whole web page into a picture–and now Kwout (think: QUOTE), where you can screen capture part of the web page—while keeping the links live. I think that’s pretty neat, and so my first date with Kwout seems to [...]

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I didn’t know this, but Tariq Ali actually knew her. This is piece from the Guardian, reprinted in Truthout:
A Tragedy Born of Military Despotism and Anarchy
By Tariq Ali
The Guardian UK
Friday 28 December 2007
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto heaps despair [...]

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Those wacky frogs. Who really gives a shit? “Incursion of English” words into French? How about “overreacting?” I think they need that word in French (if they don’t already have an adequate analogue)
PARIS — Goodbye “e-mail,” the French government says, and hello “courriel” — the term that linguistically sensitive France is now using to refer [...]

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L’imperfection sensuelle

Originally uploaded by Benoit.P

i like the desat, i like the pose, and i like the light–envelops her on top, peeks through the dress, outlines that left leg–and the texture of the ground is nice too.

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Cristalls de glaç al matí

Originally uploaded by queropere

this is from an Olympus E-510…seems pretty nice. i’m more tempted than before, that’s for sure.

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this is just a test to see if italic works in google docs when published to my blog

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