Homo newsltdi
National Geographic Society discovers ancient human who rewrites history, makes him majority shareholder.
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10 September 2015Eclipse
We had great eclipse viewing conditions in Edinburgh yesterday morning. (In your face, Transit of Venus 2004.) Armed with a pinhole camera and just the right degree of cloud cover, I even managed to get a few decent photos. No eyeballs were harmed in the taking of these images.
Je suis grand, je contiens des multitudes
A few final links on Charlie Hebdo I missed before, plus some further thoughts first posted in the giant Metafilter thread about them.
Je suis Charlie? It’s a bit late.
“All eyes are on us, we’ve become a symbol.”
How the “survival issue” was made.
“It’s okay, you’re alive, you’ll be able to keep drawing me.”
Le vrai Charlie
Charlie Hebdo’s Zineb El Rhazoui on her colleagues (English translation) (French original).
Portraits of editorial meetings at Charlie Hebdo before the massacre and after.
Cartoonists Ted Rall, Cathy Wilcox, Ruben Bolling and Robert Crumb on Charlie Hebdo.
Charlie Hebdo victim was “a friend of Islam, Turkey”.
A longtime reader’s letter to my British friends.
Charlie Hebdo and the right to be offended.
Why is the response to a strike against free speech more surveillance?
The biggest hypocrites marching for free speech in Paris.
[Most links via Mefi.]
Qui est cet Charlie Hebdo?
My first reaction to the events in Paris this week was, obviously, dismay, not just that this depressing drumbeat of the 21st century was still sounding, but that this time the target was a satirical magazine, an enterprise close to my heart. My only previous exposure to Charlie Hebdo had been seeing it at magazine stands in French-speaking countries, but I knew it was something like the French Private Eye, and that was enough to empathize with the French people’s reaction to, not just an act of terror, but an attack on a beloved national institution.
Events in 2014