[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Bizarrely inappropriate "save the Earth" ad about the oil spill [Badvertising]
- In the department of "getting down with the kids," National Geographic released this PSA aimed at children, showing aliens laughing at a giant oil spill on Earth. What exactly is the message here?
- A new kind of cloud formation boils over the central US [Geophysical Porn]
- A newly-discovered cloud formation, first identified last year, has appeared again this week after a massive storm over Missouri. The clouds, called "Undulatus asperatus," create a roiling, churned pattern that looks almost like the wake from a ship.
- You Are Not A Brand: How to keep the Internet from becoming a dystopia [Dystopias]
- If you only read one manifesto this week, you owe it to yourself to read Maureen Johnson's amazing rantifesto about people who try to turn themselves into Brands on the Internet. It's the funniest, most cheer-worthy thing I've read lately.
- 5,500-year-old leather shoe is oldest ever discovered [Mad Archaeology]
- This shoe is so old that when the Great Pyramid was built, it had already been sitting in a cave for 1,000 years. And it's so well preserved that you can see a toe-print inside.
- Arizona's immigration battle becomes a major nexus for white supremacists and the 'mainstream'
- [Crooks and Liars]
Videographer Dennis Gilman attended last weekend's "Phoenix Rising" rally in Phoenix last weekend and made this amazing video. You really have to watch it to believe it.
My favorite moment is the woman who believes there is a "radical Islamic Mexican Catholic movement" that "has been taking over our nation and getting rid of and killing American citizens".
But notice: There are a number of familiar faces here, most notably Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Russell Pearce. These are guys who show up on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC as spokesmen for SB1070, presented nominally as the "mainstream conservatives" who championed the law that they're all defending as having garnered so much popular support, etc. etc.
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