/cursing/ That other humans did similar or worse horrible things does not make this hideous behaviour any g#ddamn better. This is what you want to take from these images? From the story that accompanies it? That the prisoners deserved it?!

Here's a related article from the Turkish Daily News: ... we've been the good guys for the last century, anyway, and looked at those vile pictures with a certain smugness. Yes, we did. But no more.

And if you want to look at one of the reasons why/how this could happen, from TFA: Within three months there's a thousand prisoners with a handful of guards to take care of them, so they're overwhelmed. Frederick and the others worked 12-hour shifts. How many days a week? Seven. How many days without a day off? Forty. That kind of stress reduces decision-making and critical thinking and rationality. But that's only the beginning.

Even if there were no explicit commands from these soldiers' higher-ups, this is not the isolated work of a few bad apples.

Sabotabby, a Sheridan alum says,

"[My old school] is well-known for its animation, photography, graphic design, and film programs. Which makes the fact that they locked the school down over a tripod incredibly funny, seeing as the place is crawling with them.

Excuse me, I believe you have my playlist... Can I have my playlist back? He took my playlist and he never brought it back.

It's not okay because if they take my playlist then I'll set the building on fire...

I could set the building on fire.

Yeah, I'm not understanding the revulsion here, either. Every café I frequent does this. (Alas, no Zappa-derived signage, AFAIK.) It keeps the spoons separate and takes up less space than a tray. Also, silverware trays tend to get cinammon/chocolate/turbinado, etc. fallout as folks doctor their drinks just so.

Like #10, however, all the spoons I see are placed handle-up, dirty or clean. Occasionally, there's a mix-up when someone puts their OMG-used-to-stir-hot-coffee spoon back in the clean jar, but that's rare. I suppose the system showed above would minimize that.

(A café round these parts that deployed plastic utensils? Would, at the very least, find itself the target of a lot of lectures. )

I think I'll stick with my bit larger but much cheaper Aeropress* instead. Filters can be re-used ad infinitum, as far as we can tell, and no coffee "pods" required.

That's... pretty cool, actually. You receive a baby analogue, weighted correctly, with visual cue (face) and details to further concretize your virtual baby-holding experience. All without having to convince the parents that you think it's the bestest sprog ever. Plus, it doesn't cry or shit and, best of all, after hefting it about a bit, you get to eat it. Mmmm, (virtual) babyflesh!

Thingamadad (#4): Thanks for the heads-up. I got the link from elsewhere and had to figure it out me own self, but still... Oh, and using OSX (as I do) is no guarantee you won't get pwned via malicious scripts through your browser, #11.

Regarding the "reality" show. It may well be scripted, but, I'm sorry to say, I've encountered similar sorts to that girl in RL. Not coincidentally, most of them were blond* and all were wealthy.

*Not dissing blonds here. Just noting that in some areas/cultures, being blond makes one the target of the attitude shown here by the parents. Kids who get this treatment often become particularly unpleasant teens.

Wow, you never know where a commentroversy will break out.

#22. I think you might be right. I'm reminded of those multiple-sets-of-eyes manips that make some people (including me) quite dizzy. E.g., http://www.moillusions.com/2006/12/double-dangerfield-illusion.html

#13. You know what else ED GEIN did? He lived in Wisconsin. It makes me sick how people on the Net are always glorifying ED GEIN with their sick Wisconsin-talk.

Seriously, I understand these images squick you, but try not to project so much, eh? I suspect very few viewers made any sort of connection to a 1950s serial killer until your post brought it up. (And "rolling over in his grave"? That may not mean what you think it means, unless you feel that Mr. Gein himself would find the photos upsetting...)

Adblock Plus to the rescue! Now I don't have to bring the hate. :D

#27 "Having just finished Brian Wood's comic DMZ"

There's also The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto" by Stephen Graham Jones (1573661090)in which an independent Native nation has already been established on Lakota land. I'm only a few chapters in but it's pretty dang funny so far.

He and his mom had been hunting and gathering at the supermart in Hoopa, California when the wall of television sets said it, that the Dakota were Indian again, look out, and three weeks and two and a half cars later, LP and his mom rolled across the Little Missouri at Camp Crook with nearly four million other Indians. It wasn't the Little Missouri anymore, though, but something hard to pronounce, in Lakota.

Anyone have a mirror for activists' site: http://www.lakotafreedom.com/ ? It's "bandwidth exceeded" and the Google cache version is a week old and contentless.

It looks like the Lakota people as a whole are not in agreement on this, btw. This (fairly "dismissive") article in the SD Argus Leader quotes some rez folks who say they're keeping the status quo: http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071220/NEWS/712200347/1001