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Stańczyk by Jan Matejko; source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Stanczyk_Matejko.JPG
Oct 05
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not exactly a barrel of monkeys, but close enough for jazz from here via this ——
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“ On Wednesday, a 91-year-old convicted war criminal was fined €1,600 for trying to hold up a Belgian pharmacy with a toy pistol. The man was sentenced in Recklinghausen, a city in northwestern Germany, for a ‘holdup’ that took place in Eupen, Belgium in March 2007. …
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The defendant, a former SS officer, was convicted in 1968 of murdering six Jews in Gorlice, Poland during World War II. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and paroled after 22 years behind bars.
The pensioner, whose name has not been released by the court, admitted to the World War II crimes. But the convict argued that his war crimes trial was unfair because he was under orders from superiors when he committed the murders. He claimed the Belgian heist was an act of ‘protest’ to attract public attention to this point of view.
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  • looks like appealing 40 years earlier (before, incidentally, he’d served any of his 22 years) might’ve been the better option
  • the quotation’s from here
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British judges processed towards the House of Commons after a service at Westminster Abbey which marked the start of the legal year - a custom which dates to the Middle Ages. from here via this can you believe it? the judges of Supreme Court of New South Wales do a similar thing here in Sydney at the start of our legal year, including wearing similar giggle gear there’s at least one difference though—our legal year starts, not in October, but at the end of January or the start of February each year (it was JAN 29 this year; it’ll be FEB 02 next year: see this) while October in London is autumn, January/February in Sydney is still summer, so Supreme Court judges here, as well as feeling foolish in their robes, are sweltering you can read here more about the English legal year and the ceremony shown in the piccie ——

British judges processed towards the House of Commons after a service at Westminster Abbey which marked the start of the legal year - a custom which dates to the Middle Ages.

  • from here via this
  • can you believe it? the judges of Supreme Court of New South Wales do a similar thing here in Sydney at the start of our legal year, including wearing similar giggle gear
  • there’s at least one difference though—our legal year starts, not in October, but at the end of January or the start of February each year (it was JAN 29 this year; it’ll be FEB 02 next year: see this)
  • while October in London is autumn, January/February in Sydney is still summer, so Supreme Court judges here, as well as feeling foolish in their robes, are sweltering
  • you can read here more about the English legal year and the ceremony shown in the piccie

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Oct 04
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a lovely little flower the Stumblng Tumblr saw on his travels today; he doesn’t even know what kind ——
  • a lovely little flower the Stumblng Tumblr saw on his travels today; he doesn’t even know what kind
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A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.

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Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse? - Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
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  • the first quotation is from here via this; the second quotation is from here; the image is from here
  • it seems that there’s more in common between contemporary Islamic and French philosophies than even the Stumblng Tumblr suspected

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“ The Large Hadron Collider will be turned on again at the beginning of April, according to Robert Aymar, CERN’s director general
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  • the Stumblng Tumblr’s guessing APR 01
  • from here
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in case you were wondering, The Edge is going up in Brooklyn from here via this ——
  • in case you were wondering, The Edge is going up in Brooklyn
  • from here via this
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“ An underdog in Sunday’s election for governor of Bangkok has punched and kicked a television journalist, saying he was provoked by tough questions during a live interview.
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  • fair enough
  • obviously, it would never happen in Australia—asking tough questions, that is
  • from here
Oct 03
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“ Monroe [Washington] police are searching for a man who robbed an armored-car guard this morning then fled with the money — down the Skykomish River on an inner tube.
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  • story to be filed under “current affairs”
  • the quotation’s from here via this; the image is from here

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
  • Billy Strayhorn, playing his own composition, “Day Dream”
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what IS that attractive greenery? from here ——
  • what IS that attractive greenery?
  • from here
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» Ig Nobel Prize is 'knot funny'
  • this year’s Ig Nobels have just been announced
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