Corrosive Canvas: December 2007

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Nicky’s Methods of Betting Weren’t Scientific, but They Worked. When He Won, He Collected. When He lost, He Told the Bookies to Go Fuck Themselves.

the stock market (comic) way works frenzy

http://pichaus.com/

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

7 of Africa’s Kings - The 7 Wonders

We all know how most of African people are doing. They are facing hunger, lack of water or extreme temperatures. But if you ever wondered how the African royalty is doing, here is your chance. Take a look at some interesting pictures of African kings.

EL HADJ MAMADOU KABIR USMAN, Emir of Katsina, Nigeria

NGIE KAMGA JOSEPH, Fon of Bandjun, Cameroun

AGBOLI-AGBO DEDJLANI, King of Abomey, Benin

NYIMI KOK MABIINTSH III, King of Kuba, D.R. Congo

GOODWILL ZWELETHINI, King of Zulu, South Africa

IGWE KENNETH NNAJI ONYEMAEKE ORIZU III, Obi of Nnewi, Nigeria

OBA JOSEPH ADEKOLA OGUNOYE, Olowo of Owo, Nigeria

Human History / / I'm crying…… that was a beautiful story

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Alan Charles Kors

George H. Walker Endowed Term Professor of History

First, tribes: tough life.
The defaults beyond the intimate tribe were violence, aversion to difference, and slavery. Superstition: everywhere.
Culture overcomes them partially.
Rainfall agriculture, which allows loners.
Irrigation agriculture, which favors community.
Division of labor plus exchange in trade bring mutual cooperation, even outside the tribe.
The impulse is always there, though: "Kill or enslave the outsider."
Gradual science from Athens' compact with reason.
Division of labor, trade, the mastery of knowledge, plus time brought surplus, sometimes a peaceful extended order and, rules diversely evolved and, the cooperation of strangers - always warring against the fierce defaults of tribalism, violence, and ignorance.
No one who teaches you knows what will happen.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Your Car-Enthusiast British Dad Who People Liken to James Bond.Would Approve of Your Sense of Style

Reminds you of Bangalore?"Bangalore, a city whose soul has been clinically removed in the name of corporate efficiency.... Everything about the host culture has been watered down, Westernised, or otherwise screwed up...."Adam Russ

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Surfer Dudes

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Best Reuters Photos of the Year

via http://funtasticus.com/

Well, guess what?

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Where can I get that young lady's phone number?

If there's one thing that I love as much as I hate, it's a blank page.

Its anticipation is almost audible
Straining for that first letter
First line
Ready to become anything you could ever imagine it to be
Personal portrait to tragic tale
Even if its only purpose is to be thrown across a room
Then it is happy.

Paper is so much easier to please than people.

Someday, there will be no shame and no hesitation in calling Bush a lying bastard

* March 31: "Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon..."

* June 5: Iran's "pursuit of nuclear weapons..."

* June 19: "consequences to the Iranian government if they continue to pursue a nuclear weapon..."

* July 12: "the same regime in Iran that is pursuing nuclear weapons..."

* Aug. 6: "this is a government that has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon..."

* Aug. 9: "They have expressed their desire to be able to enrich uranium, which we believe is a step toward having a nuclear weapons program..."

* Aug. 28: "Iran's active pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons..."

*Oct. 4: "you should not have the know-how on how to make a (nuclear) weapon..."

*Oct. 17: "until they suspend and/or make it clear that they, that their statements aren't real, yeah, I believe they want to have the **capacity**, the **knowledge**, in order to make a nuclear weapon."