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How Many Wives?

Dialogue excerpt between US tank corpsman ‘Waco’ Hoyt (Bruce Bennett) and Sudanese Sgt. Maj. Tambul (Rex Ingram) in Columbia Pictures’ classic 1943 war flick, Sahara, featuring Humphrey Bogart as American tank commander Sgt. Joe Gunn. Directed by Zoltan Korda… • … Continue reading

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Downtown Pyongyang

North Korea’s capital city of Pyongyang It’s like a semi-abstract still life… minus the life part. . Image by David Guttenfelder from The Independent: Lost world: Scenes from North Korea’s closed society Story to go with the pictures, by David … Continue reading

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thoughts 5298, 5299 of the humbucker series

Sometimes, the opposite of practical is not impractical, but theoretical. Don’t bother arguing with a nihilist, they’re all no’ing.

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Hamas PM Slams Killing of Bin Laden

“We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.” – Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. no … Continue reading

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quantum haiku

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Egyptian turmoil: The Israeli position

* Address delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu February 4, 2011, at the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in Jerusalem * Yesterday was a dramatic day in our region. Millions of people poured into the streets of Egypt. President Mubarak, who … Continue reading

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A Peace of Jerusalem: Revision Notice

The document A Peace of Jerusalem was revised on this date. The document is the result of a collaboration undertaken between October 27, 2009, and August 7, 2010, involving approximately 300 people from different countries and regions of the world (including … Continue reading

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So Long, Kodachrome

After a run of 75 years, the last roll of Kodachrome film will be developed today at Dwayne’s Photo in Kansas — until now, the last remaining Kodachrome developer in the world. Kodachrome brought us some of the most vibrant … Continue reading

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Cover Letter #847

Re: Advertised Editor/Copywriter Job Dear HR, I enjoy adapting client-provided copy and I am fully prepared to pad, slash, amplify, contour, warp, finesse or mechanically debone any such text which does disservice to the honour of said client’s own brand. … Continue reading

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Quantum Non-Locality?

Going on about physics, again… Something to do with Bell’s Theorem, wave functions, etc. (147 words) Continue reading

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Our Shortest Interview Yet

Intrepid imahd.ca contributor Viz Bartolemy caught up with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad outside a movie theatre in downtown Tehran as he left a private screening of the Hollywood mega-blockbuster, Avatar… Continue reading

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Pseudo-Photo-Journalism

Reuters fumbles again…? Continue reading

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Inner Beauty

an itty-bitty nifty little ditty Continue reading

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