The Almost Seven Wonders files
No, not quite:
The writer is an American expat living right in the middle of things. Worth a regular visit to see what he’s seeing, first hand.
Beware, the giant robot pudu!
Which is actually probably more of a fallow deer, I guess, or maybe a red deer, but whatever. I’m going with robot pudu. Just, well, beware, the giant robot unspecified cervine ungulate! doesn’t quite ring the same way.
From this delightful artist via the directory of wonderful things.
What it feels like sometimes…
What it feels like sometimes…
According to a story which originated with the BBC’s Newsnight program, Al-Qaeda called its bank shot.
Not sure if I want to invest too much in the report — it’s basically what one guy says he heard another guy said, with no way to corroborate it — although Ibn Sheikh Al-Libi’s falsehoods under interrogation, and their impact the Bush war party, have been revealed before. All this adds is the claim that the bank shot was intentional, not just the result of a guy breaking under questioning and saying what the interrogators want to hear.