Month: February 2005

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Photographic remnants

An unnerving series of digital photos taken from a couple visiting Thailand during the tsunami: they died minutes later, but the recovered camera shows what they saw in the last moments.

The wave gets closer, its power more evident as it kicks up sand and mud and finally crashes onto the beach. “We were stunned — just out of the blue, an echo from the grave,” Pilet said. “What we saw in these pictures were the last five minutes of these people’s lives.”
From the individual who discovered the camera

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Uncle Duke dead at 67

How to destroy the Earth: a guide. And in related news, $50,000 saves Toby the Bunny.

Hunter Thompson dead at 67. I just finished Hell’s Angels a year ago, and saw both Bill Murray and Johnny Depp portray him. And Duke from Doonesbury.

Thompson “took his life with a gunshot to the head,” the wife and son said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News. The statement asked for privacy for Thompson’s family and, using the Latin term for Earth, added, “He stomped terra.”
Latin noun used for brief eulogy

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Googlezon

The New York Times goes offline as a print pamphlet in the face of increased competition from Googlezon in the year 2014.

The McLibel Two should have been given legal aid during their fight against McDonald’s, a British court rules. Background of the case here

“We need to have a cathedral builder’s mentality when we’re doing these campaigns,” Mark said. “We may not see the building completed in our lifetime, but if we finish the foundation, the next generation can build on that.”
Why the left needs to be patient and persistent

Boycott? Too negative, says co-founder of BuyBlue.org.