7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World
I realise that the 21st century Cracked.com is a million miles from the Mad magazine rip-off of my childhood but I have to note this because I have never expected to read jokes in Cracked based on On Sphere-Making by Archimedes or Ab urbe condita libri by Livy. Mad maybe, but not Cracked.
Also on VICE is this interview with Berkeley Breathed
Former warlords General Rambo, General Bin Laden and General Butt Naked give us guided tours of some of the most dangerous, impoverished areas including jails, brothels, and heroin dens.
I’m looking forward to this.
Orson Welles on police brutality
The Internet Archive features a series of recordings of American radio broadcaster Orson Welles, in particular a recording from 1946 in which Welles reads the Affidavit of Isaac Woodard regarding his abuse at the hands of corrupt police officers, followed by a highly emotional and impassioned speech by Welles on the subject of bringing justice, corruption, and forgiveness.
( Boingboing )
A great eight minute film documenting London’s seedy underbelly – Soho.
Most of my non-British friends are stunned when I tell them that the UK police are permitted, by statute, to stop and search any person at will.
At. Will.
This is not the well recognised powers of the police to stop and search a person whom the officer believes is actually doing something illegal at that moment.
It is not even the power to stop and search you if they don’t like the look of you. They need no reason at all.
Originally, these powers were brought in to fight the IRA but they have been mostly used to harass the Asian and black communities.
However, reason prevailed yesterday when the EU Court of Human Rights ruled the practise as illegal.
Does this stop it? Not quite yet – enforcing an ECHR decision in the UK can be tricky if the government is determined to fight it. But stayed tuned.
Time Out needs £3m from owner to stay afloat
Merely reprinted out of interest.
Need your iPhone speaker to be amplified? Drop it in an empty pint glass.
Paul Krasner published this well-known poster in The Realist in 1966. Here’s the story behind the story. The art is by Wally Wood. Did not know.
Wacky Packages art now available for your wall
The largest sizes – 7 feet long – are around US $170.
