This is a circus in a suburb of Paris this January. It huddled in the shadow of concrete apartment blocks, a long, treacherous walk from the obscure train station. Note the caravan in the darkness on the right. I don’t envy the circus people who live there in the cold.

Inside was one of the best [...]

National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen explains how a leopard seal tried to teach him to catch and eat penguins in the waters off the coast of Antarctica:

Check out these wonderful photos of Disney princesses fallen on hard times by Dina Goldstein:

There’s a lot of strange stuff on Pirate Bay. This looks promising:
Yoga and Meditation: Pathway to Destruction - Documentary
Here’s the uploader’s explanation. I highlighted the best parts:
Yoga’s practice in everyday situations — is it dangerous? Eastern meditation and yoga are being used by vibrant young businessmen, athletes and children for achieving better, healthier living. How [...]

I watched the Dennis Hopper movie Out of the Blue recently. The best part is this wonderful opening monologue where Linda Manz talks about punk.

The sequence is sampled in the Primal Scream song Kill All Hippies:

This is inevitable when funds are cut from space programs.
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I once wrote a column for the culture section of Helsingin Sanomat about LOLcats. Now I found a blog with English translations of Russian lolcats. The flavor is different.

Cease your protests, the deal is done!  You are to make a fine wife for uncouth American businessman!

We sleep with vigor. Content with the knowledge that Lenin’s [...]

My favorite manga artist Shintaro Kago has his own YouTube channel.
Terror of golf course

Terror of olympic game

Kirjoitin tänään ilmestyneessä Nyt-liitteessä kummallisista asioista, joista löytyy Pirate Baysta. Juttu on täällä.

I saw the animated short The Cat Came Back when I was maybe ten years old. I loved it. I used to go around singing the chorus “The cat came back, the cat came back”, over and over again.
Unlike many other things I have fond childhood memories of, this is exactly as good as I [...]

I was a big fan of Star Trek when I was a kid. Here’s a Belgian interpretation of the old classics:

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Tanskassakin lapset käyvät päiväkodeissa. Tässä Mikkosen perheelle lisää todistusaineistoa tätä kaameaa instituutiota vastaan, tanskalaisen tv-ohjelman muodossa:

YouTubeen videot uploadannut käyttäjä tarjoaa tällaista selitystä:
From the danish satiric talkshow “Den 11. Time” (The llth Hour), with Mikael Bertelsen and co-host Mads Brügger.
Mads’ brother-in-law thoughtthat teletubbies is how the world would be like, if the Nazi´s had won the [...]

I think we all know what’s going on here.

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Credits:
Vogue Paris February 2009
Lara Stone
Lara feat. Travis by Steven Klein
style by Marie Amelie Sauve

Some home truths about awards in advertising, courtesy of Maximilian Villivankk.

Directed by Jim Hosking
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Here’s probably the best customer review on Amazon, of the self-help book The Secret.
Please allow me to share with you how “The Secret” changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of “The Secret” [...]