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current affairs

A collection of 105 issues

Stop.

originally uploaded by Bright Tal. This was posted with this picture on Flickr: Israel is trying to bring Lebanon to its knees. Israel is trying to destroy Lebanon and the Lebanese spirit. Israel is trying to turn Lebanese against each other. Israel is trying to turn us into animals scrounging

10x10.

On a lighter, design-related note, this is cool.

Never again?

This is a really good article about the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. An excerpt which pretty much sums up my thoughts after reading a lot about things over the past few days. I feel for the Israelis, but as the US squandered the good will of the world

I want to design t-shirts.

originally uploaded by kevin meredith. I came across this in this week’s NY Times Magazine. I’ve been wanting to create some well-designed political t-shirts and sell them at Left Bank Books and small boutiques around town. Now seems as good a time as any…. I’m listening to

Cessez-le-feu.

Cessez-le-feu, originally uploaded by Hugo*. A demonstration in Paris yesterday, via Flickr.

"Smoke 'em out" with PowerPoint.

photo by Ralf Stockmann. This is a really interesting excerpt, taken from Thomas E. Rick’s Fiasco, especially given Tufte’s assertions about PowerPoint: That reliance on slides rather than formal written orders seemed to some military professionals to capture the essence of Rumsfeld’s amateurish approach to war planning.

City of Design.

What comes to mind when you think of Montréal? Canada, our friendly neighbor to the north. Quebec. Mt. Royal. The St. Lawrence River. The French Quarter. Design. Wait a minute. Design? If it didn’t come to mind, it should. Montréal was recently named the first North American “City of

France Vingt-Quatre.

Hmmm, France 24; le CNN Français, n’est-ce pas? Je dois l’écouter.

Farewell, Barbaro.

by Neylano. I’ve been loosely following the story of Barbaro, the famed racehorse who won the Kentucky Derby and was favored to win the Triple Crown until he shattered three bones in his hind leg during the Preakness last May in Baltimore. The news of his euthanization on Monday

Nice.

A death threat at Seattle Central where I teach: May 30, 2007 As we first reported on Friday, May 25, a message with a threat to commit mass violence on campus was discovered in the men’s restroom in the Science and Mathematics Building. It was written on a toilet