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[CAUTION: The above video depicts murder in the name of an invisible monster that lives in the sky.] Taliban gunmen have been filmed executing a surprised couple whom they repeatedly shot for the alleged crime of adultery. Their deaths were squalid, riddled with bullets in a field near their home by Taliban gunmen as the execution was captured on a mobile telephone. In footage which is being watched with horror by Pakistanis, the couple try to flee when they realise what is about to happen. But a gunman casually shoots the man and then the woman in the back with a burst of gunfire, leaving them bleeding in the dirt. Moments later, when others in the execution party shout out that they are still alive, he returns to coldly finish them with a few more rounds. Their “crime” was an alleged affair in their remote mountain village controlled by militants in an area that was only recently under the government’s sway. It was the kind of barbarity that has become increasingly familiar across Pakistan as the Taliban tide has spread.

[Article continues at link. Is it a fact that Pakistanis are watching the footage in horror? Who, besides the murdered couple, is described as horrified in the footage itself? The West can want the Muslim world to be as ashamed and horrified as it is for the behavior of the Muslim world but... what are the facts? Do Muslims march in the streets by the hundreds against atrocities like this, or against comics? The only act necessary for the perpetuation of evil is indifference. Like the indifference President G. W. Bush showed when he gave the Taliban $43 million in May 2001. How might some of that money been returned to the USA four months later? I support the withering away of the Muslim world under the twin suns of reason and scorn. Let Islam become secular or let it be forgotten. Lan Astalslem! I will not submit! - Trevor Blake]

A painting by Adolf Hitler sold for almost $15,000 Thursday — more than six times as much as expected.

Hitler’s art attracts big sale prices – CNN.com

People with higher measures of cognitive ability are more likely to make good choices in several different types of economic decisions [isn't this what the authors of "The Bell Curve" were saying and were punished for saying?]

People With Higher IQs Make Wiser Economic Choices, Study Finds

a form of neurotraining called “Brain Music” that uses music created in advance from listeners’ own brain waves to help them deal with common ailments like insomnia, fatigue, and headaches stemming from stressful environments.

Brain Music: Putting The Brain’s Soundtracks To Work

I’m Learning To Share!: Search term: “Jughead’s hat”

Faith Fighter is the ultimate fighting game for these dark times. Choose your belief and kick the shit out of your enemies. Give vent to your intolerance! Religious hate has never been so much fun.

Faith Fighter | Molleindustria

Remove the ++++++++++ to have this URL work correctly. Not safe for work. The true face of religion: people burning other people alive. Horrible, horrible, and I’m horrible for bringing it to your attention, but religion is more horrible still.

M90.org – Five innocent people accused of witchcraft burned alive in Kenya

the ion channels responsible for hearing aren’t located where scientists previously thought.

How Human Ear Translates Vibrations Into Sounds: Discovery Of Ion Channel Turns Ear On Its Head

Tamara de Lempicka

Art Decadence? | MetaFilter

“I tracked things like unemployment and mortality and found that they were almost a mirror image of each other,” [W.O.R.K. NO]

Does our health actually get better in some ways during a down economy? – OregonLive.com

This week the Supreme Court declined to review a Texas murder case in which a juror brought a Bible into the sentencing process – showing that the Book recommends death for anyone who kills another person with an iron rod (Numbers 35:16). [...] Just in case an issue like this should come up in your state, thirty six different offenses in the Bible qualified for capital punishment. Do any of these apply to you?

[Article continues at link. For the especially devout, here's another list of reasons God Almighty commands His faithful to murder in His name. Keeping slaves isn't on the list, but blasphemy is. Fact of the matter is, the Bible supports slavery. Just don't say bad words. Because keeping slaves and not saying bad words is proof that religion is moral and Christianity is the most moral religion of all. - Trevor Blake]

Peter Funch lives and works in New York City. Funch took pictures of people passing by the New York City street corners. Every photo is an edit of several photo’s he took at exactly the same spot in a period of two weeks. He then Photoshopped the images he captured to create the Babel Tales series.

V1 GALLERY artist

Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it. Try it ’til you trust it.

Bombich Software: Carbon Copy Cloner

Who will deliver me from this body of death? There is no refuge I have found the word does not save

Current 93 – Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil Lyrics

Bare Skin Safe Conductive Ink

36 hours under water, two hours drying off, back to normal.

Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise

I put this out on usenet.

The Sequential Circuits 615 Multi-Trak FAQ by Trevor Blake Edition 2.2 – October 1996

Garfunkel and Oates – Pregnant Women are Smug

We did what we did then for reasons that no longer exist. [So good.]

New!

Just lovely.

Lunar Lander 3D in 5K | Seb Lee-Delisle