It appears that Israel has blown up the Al Jazeera building. Tragically, all of the journalists seem to have escaped beforehand.

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Not content with the 600k Americans he's already killed, Dr. Tedros tries to add some children to the tally. One ought to admire a man with ambition, I suppose.

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Interesting Canadian research on administering ( Read more... )

Another heroic dog. I like that they're careful to point out that he's a pitbull, and was taken in as a stray. Dogs are largely what you make of them. I'm sure there's a pithily relevant Mark Twain comment for this, but I can't find it.

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The President of Chad dies in combat against his people's enemies. My virtual hat is off to him. That's ( Read more... )

A parade to move the Pharaohs to the new Egyptian Museum. The current Egyptian Museum, despite being terribly romantic and atmospheric^1, was apparently getting rather old and crumbly. So, they built a new one, and moved the Pharaohs' corpses in a grand parade.

The parade was done in proper style, and was actually quite touching. The cars that ( Read more... )

Not looking especially good in Old Hio right now. It's even on the front page of das Beeb, although that may be because I'm coming from the States. I'm astonished that no-one got killed, especially with it happening late at night like that ( Read more... )

I recall part of a dream from last night, in which I was a long-legged bird of prey, similar to a Secretary Bird. It was during the Sepoy Mutiny (I've a friend going to India on business soon, so that's not as random as it sounds), and I was the friend or pet of a British officer. I made a night flight (very vivid - flying in the dark is scary, ( Read more... )