Category: Daily Links

A round-up off all things weird strange and scientific for 2006.

The traditional ‘honour’ system among the Pushtun, and its conflicts with radical Islam. via Metafilter

Warning: cheesy music. Via Coudal.

via Metafilter

“Bryan Guise and It’s You Small are proud to bring you custom, hand sculpted bobble head dolls, bobbleheads that look like you – only smaller”

“The following is an essay I wrote for the Funky16Corners web zine a few years ago. It pretty much says all I have to say about the greatness of James Brown, who shuffled off this mortal coil earlier today.”

‘danger would no longer be coming from an excessive confidence in ideological arguments posturing as matters of fact […] but from an excessive distrust of good
matters of fact disguised as bad ideological biases!’ A critical theorist finally gets it.

“I need a break after the overdrive of carols… so I was digging through my collection this afternoon and decided to put together a little gift: my favourite African hiphop tunes”

“Insect Lab is an artist operated studio that customizes real insects with antique watch parts and electronic components.” via core77

“The site looks at the way chapter titles, fictitious book titles, and proper names have been translated, passages of verse and prose, and even a few bloopers by the translators.” via languagehat

via modal minority