Photojournalism Category
The Max Planck Strip Club For Cerebral Studies
SAYS the cover of the Max Planck Research institute booklet:
“SEXY and hot, young housewives. Flirty and enchanting, available today” – translation of Chinese script mistakenly used on cover of academic journal”
A Taiwanese reader on the University of Pennsylvania’s Language Log blog provided a more formal translation:
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Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Barack Obama Strangled In Rome
BARACK Obama is being stangled in Rome. It’s the Barack Obama Death cult, Italian chapter.
Fernando Canini, director of Rome’s wax museum, Museo Delle Cere, claims it’s a statue representing US President-elect Barack Obama.
Although he appears to have overdone the tan, eh Silvio…
Spotter: T Man
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
Unattended Thieves In Camden Town
TO Camden Town and the Chalk Farm library. The sign warns:
DO not leave your belongings. Unattended thieves operate in this area.
Look out.
Posted: 11th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Learning To Kill Grandpa With A Russian Text Book
RUSSIAN textbooks to teaching for by the English are very good. Some are very good better than others.
Some Russian textbooks for English studies are way to straightforward. This one was pointed to help memorizing some rules like don’t use “will” after “if”, or when to say “sorry” and when “excuse me” and some others – you can easily guess which pictures is for which rule.
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Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Outted To Lunch By Proposition 8: “Fancy A Shag?”
Angered by the passage of a law banning same-sex marriage, gay rights activists are urging people to call in “gay” across the United States and skip work on Wednesday.
They also want people to buy nothing, to show off the economic muscle of the gay community, and spend the day doing volunteer work instead.
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Posted: 10th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment (1)
Banana Monarchy: Britain Is Bigger Credit Risk Than McDonald’s
ONCE great, Great Britain as now revealed to be a bigger credit default risk than McDonald’s.
Ronald or Gordon? Scotland awaits the answer…
Which one’s in the clown boots?
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — Investing in U.K. government debt is almost
twice as risky as buying bonds sold by McDonald’s Corp., based on prices
in the credit-default swap market.The CHART OF THE DAY compares the cost of protecting against a decline in the creditworthiness of the two borrowers. U.K. protection became more expensive on Sept. 29, when the pound suffered
its biggest one-day loss against the dollar in 16 years after the government took control of Bradford & Bingley Plc, Britain’s biggest lender to landlords.Britain risks being viewed pejoratively as a banana republic “apart from the technical disqualification that we have a monarch and so cannot be a Republic, and it’s too cold to grow bananas anyway,” says Sean Corrigan, who helps oversee about $8.5 billion as chief investment strategist at Diapason Commodities Management SA in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today…
Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Money, Photojournalism | Comments (3)
It’s 3am And Barack Obama Is Call Screening
RING! Ring! It’s 3am and the phone is ringing in the offices of Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari.
India is on the phone. India’s foreign minister is on line one. He is most unhappy. Islamabad puts the airforce on high alert.
Anorak wonders if call screening has yet arrived in Pakistan? Call screening may save the world from nuclear annihilation. You see that the call is from the angry man so you don’t pick up. The caller lets off some steam on your answer phone and goes to bed. He tells his wife that he gave the other guy what for and he sleeps well. And the other guy has a fun thing to play his guys. Everyone wins.
If Stalin had had call screening, he could have pretended he knew nothing of a pact with Germany and not left his country open to attack. It’s 3am already, Joe. Don’t pick up the phone.
In other calling news President-elect Barack Obama called Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen on her cellphone Wednesday to congratulate her on her re-election. She hung up on him.
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Posted: 9th, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (8)
Taiwan’s Hello Kitty Hospital: Top Ten Cartoon-Themed Hospitals
THE 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in Yuanlin, central Taiwan, lays claim to being the world’s first Hello Kitty themed medical establishment.
This is akin to standing up in a crowed bar and screaming out: “I was the man who discovered Anthea Turner.” It is a horror best kept to oneself.
And it gets Anorak wondering what other themed hospitals we could bring to the market.
Barbie – Cosmetic Surgery; one size fits all
Popeye – Ocular clinic
The Muppets – Depilation and vagina reconstruction
Sponge Bob – Take home the little fella when the surgeon sews one into your wound
Porky Pig – Tha-Tha-That’s all folks stammer centre and hospice
Pooh Bear – Rectal and bowel experts to over-fed stars
Ronald McDonald – for all your emetic needs
Dora The Explora – Say “Colposcopy”
Charlie Brown school for depression
Speedy Gonzalez centre for drugs dependencies and steroid abuse
Coming soon:
Goofy – Dentistry
Jughead – ear reconstruction
Loony Tunes – Mental wellbeing refuge
Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
True Colours Of The Solar Corona, By Miloslav Druckmüller
A TOTAL eclipse. What do you see? Well, best not to look, you may go blind. But what is the color of the solar corona?
The majority of people perceive the corona during eclipse as white or slightly greenish-white. However bluish-white, yellowish-white or reddish-white are often reported too. The problem is in the color perception by human vision which is dependent on the definition (calibration) of white color. The less the color differs from white i.e. the less is the color saturated the more critical is the precision of white color calibration. If we use the natural definition that photospheric light is white, we may distinguish very small but still well detectable differences of solar corona coloring. Suppressing the white color component i.e. increasing of color saturation enables detailed study of the color variation throughout the inner corona.
Humans don’t see all the colours. Imagine if you could?
Posted: 7th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man Banned From Dressing As Britney Spears Near School Gates
BERETS off to Britney Spears look-alike Peter Trigger, 59, of Farnden Close in Thorplands, Northamptonshire, who has been dressing as a schoolgirl and hanging around near a primary school.
For over a year, Trigger has been outside the gates acing as honey trap to seduce any real perverts and paedos in the area. It is life-long learning in a cloak of childcare.
But some people misunderstand. Police are called. The Beak is summoned and Mr Trigger pushed before him.
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Posted: 7th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Eight-Toed Baby Born In China
TO China where a baby boy with eight toes on each foot has been discharged from a hospital in Leizhou, southeast Guangdong province.
The baby has five fingers on each hand but doesn’t have thumbs.
The medical experts say:
“Doctor said this might have something to do with genetics or environment pollution.”
Or, er, not…
Howe many toes on a possum?
Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Flesh Food In Japan And Instruction Manual For People With Type B Blood
FLESH food on sale in Japan.
In Japan, blood is all the rage:
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Posted: 6th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
The Ten Greatest OJ Simpson Book Covers
OJ Simpson said he was “stupid” and “sorry” and “didn’t know [he] was doing anything illegal”.
He “was confronting friends” and “retrieving [his] things.”
He has least 15 years to think about things. And we get to look abck at the man’s carrer as celebrate din art,. books and film: The 10 Best OJ Simpson souvenirs:
Double Negative
You will not find this book unhelpful!
Posted: 5th, December 2008 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comments (7)
Overtaking In Russia’s Aqua Cars
TRAFFIC can be murder in Russia. In this still, the hero in the white car decides that he is too good to queue and will overtake by motoring along the pedestrians lane.
It is for reasons such as this you never see Russians adults below 4ft 9inches tall, apart from Vladimir Putin, obviously…
Then:
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Posted: 5th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Shannon Matthews: Madeleine McCann’s Shameless Legacy
KAREN Matthews has been found guilty of kidnapping her daughter Shannon Matthews and get her hands on the reward money.
Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan were both found guilty of the kidnap and false imprisonment.
The pair were also found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
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Posted: 4th, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Reviews | Comments (11)
Do Not Fall Into A Trance In The Snake Pit
NO diving, bombing, petting, eating, falling into a trance in the snake pit…
Posted: 3rd, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
The Man In The Moon Smiles On Sun-Fried Australia
IN Australia it’s hot. Damn hot. When it’s not raining and it’s not snowing it is scorching hot.
And when the sun goes down to recharge for another day’s merciless onslaught, the moon pops up and brigthens everyone’s day…
Posted: 2nd, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Youth Power Weekend: Live Sex
IT’S Youth Power Weekend in the U.S of A. There’s lots of fun. And live sex…
Posted: 2nd, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (3)
Russians Eat Cats, Rats And Rock Sandwiches
JASON Kottke has a list of recipes from Leningrad during the Nazi seige:
Soup from pets and domesticated animals
Meat is ranked by taste in the following order: dog, guinea pig, cat, rat. Gut the carcass, wash well and place in cold water. Add salt. Cook for one to three hours. For aroma: bay leaf, pepper, any sort of herbs, and, if available, grain.
Things in Russia are very different now. Now they have bread and fillings.
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Posted: 1st, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (6)
The Shameless M. Sarkozy: Yes He Can
IN France, Sarkozy gets out his Obamas:
Posted: 1st, December 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment (1)
Thailand: British Protestors Campaing For Thai Rak Thai
BRITISH protestors come out in support of Thailand Thai Rak Thai Party:
Posted: 30th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comment
Torchwood: Touching Up The Stars
TORCHWOOD, the BBC’s low-rent Dr Who spin-off has issued some promotional photos. One picture provides a clue as to how actors get parts in sci-fi shows: they aliens. Look at her hands…
Spotter: Jenny Hayes
Posted: 30th, November 2008 | In: Celebrities, Photojournalism | Comment (1)
A Barbecue At The Petting Zoo
THE Petting Zoo is having a barbecue. Bring your own…
Posted: 30th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
A Nasty Buffet
THE Nasty Buffet…
Posted: 30th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment
Miracle Teeth Whitening Product
I HAD terrible teeth (see picture left). My teeth looked like two thin lips. But then I discovered how open my mouth and asked for Fixt Teeth…
Posted: 29th, November 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comment (1)
