Sherry Chandler

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First the heartbreaking: Dave Bonta on white-nose syndrome that is killing off our bats.

then the serious: David Ford’s interview of Helen Losse.

then the amazingly and amusingly techno: Quineau sonnets (via Matthew Lafferty)

And last, the just silly: Emergency Yodel Button (via Troy Teegarden)

Today, by the way, is the anniversary of the Gore vs. Bush election in 2000, the celebration of which puts us all in dire need of an emergency yodel button.

Bored at work

Here’s a fun thingie to play with while I get my act together.

I wish.

Try the fractal tree, too.

Via

Sketch

If you like to doodle but need to look busy, try Sketch, from Bay Area graphic design group Odopod. You can start with a blank page, choose brushes in various colors and textures, and follow your muse with the mouse: the results approximate the look of watercolor and ink drawings.

Clicking the arrows at the top of the screen takes you through works saved by other users, recreating the entire

Via Donna Rhae Marder.

For myself, I just watched a DVD of The Bicycle Thief and think I’ll go sit in a corner for a while and stare at the wallpaper.

Sock and Awe!

Sock and Awe!

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Just in case you’ve been living on a desert island or something and missed this one. Even NPR featured it.

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Addendum: From Dennis Perrin, author of “SAVAGE MULES: The Democrats and Endless War,” posted on Dec 15:

As the AP headline put it, “Bush’s Iraq-Afghan farewell tour marred by dissent.” Marred. Yep, that pretty much sums up our domestic media mindset. Meanwhile, American liberals are enjoying a mighty laugh over the shoe toss. Were the same to happen to Obama, libs would be the first to scream foul, angered by the lack of foreign respect for the Leader of The Free World, especially from ungrateful Iraqis, who don’t have the decency to finance their own submission, as Obama repeatedly points out.

Depends which shoe is on whose foot.

That guy totally threw a shoe: the game

The headline at the Washington Post says the shoe-hurling journalist has become a folk hero in Iraq. I’d venture to guess he’s a bit of a hero amongst quite a few people in the U.S. too.

(Question: how does a folk hero differ from the type of hero without adjectives? Update: Well there’s my bad memory. The WaPo headline only says “Flying Shoes Create a Hero in the Arab World” and there’s no “folk” about it. Somebody else, I guess. Anyhoo, there’s a video over there at the Post in case you’re the one lone person in the global village who hasn’t seen this incident.)

Via Ursulas, here’s a Flash game, “made in just an hour or so by Mark Arenz,” with which you might while away a snowbound hour. I haven’t tried it out. My old setup here at home is not friendly to flash and at work, well . . .

So if you play it, let me know what you think.

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According to Juan Cole:

Iraqi journalist Muntazar al-Zaidi suffered, according to his brother, “suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury” and had to go to hospital after he protested Bush’s press conference in Baghdad by throwing shoes at the president. The Doha Center for Media Freedom has expressed concern about the injuries allegedly inflicted on al-Zaidi and has called on Iraqi authorities “to ensure that the rights of this prisoner are respected.�

Al-Zaidi appeared briefly in court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty. Although apparently Iraqi law specifies a jail term of up to 2 years for the infraction of insulting the head of state, prosecutors are speaking of a 7-year term.

Looks like the speculations that al-Zaidi was being tortured were spot on.

Wonder whether our magnanimous spreader of Democracy (aka Dubya) could intervene???

Mr. Picassohead

You can make your own Picasso head here.

You can view mine here. I’ve always been a bit of a minimalist and anyway, this is how I feel this morning.

View the gallery here, all 752,597 of them, and there will be more by the time you get there.

Send me your links. It’ll be fun to see.

Mr. Picassohead was created by Ruder Finn Interactive, I found it via the Lynch-Bustin Art Room.

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This masterpiece was created by Ro.

All’s well that ends well, I guess

http://view.break.com/536276 – Watch more free videos

Though I don’t think the kid ever get her/his toy.

Via with h/t to Donna Rhae Marder.

You might also enjoy LOL Bush, the President at the Olympics. I think this explains why the man wanted to be president; he really did want to be cheerleader-in-chief. More on this at the Bag.