Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Out There

The Teslathon: In May, the Carlton Road United Reformed Church Hall in Derby saw Teslathon UK – a small group of men and women gathered around a 9ft-tall tesla coil zapping the walls. They meet twice a year to show off their coils, and similar events happen all over the world.

Government!
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network activists told reporters in June that at least 59 U.S.-trained Arabic speakers have been ejected from the military because they're gay (and in each case despite being a native English-speaker who completed intense, expensive military language school). But a month before that, as symbolic of the government's shortage of Arabic speakers, an official of the U.S.-funded Al Hurra Middle East television service admitted that it had recently, inadvertently, broadcast several pro-terrorist programs (including an hour-long tirade encouraging violence against Jews), attributing the error to the fact that no senior Al Hurra news manager speaks Arabic.

Tape Art

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