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Amnesty International is celebrating 45 years of activism by highlighting governments using the net to suppress dissent.

Stop Internet repression.

… I just gotta finish this level.

Australian Musical Comedy band Tripod, live.

The egg, apparently.

“When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
I am compelled to conclude
That man is the superior animal.

When I consider the curious habits of man
I confess, my friend, I am puzzled.”

(Ezra Pound)

My favorite exemplar of the Pointillism school of painting – Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, from Georges Seurat.

I have been busy and dealing with some personal scares recently, but still managed to keep an eye on some good stuff. And today I feel like sharing.

• The first part of an article on the social implications of doubling our lifespan. Torward Immortality. Update: The remaining two parts of the article are also available. Top notch.
• If you are interested in photography or do image editing, KaveWall has plenty of free stock photos, images and textures. High quality stock, none of that “you get this for free coz it ain’t worth ****”.
• The Interact10ways project from getty images is simply superb. Interact with images and photographs in ways you never thought before. Needs Flash.
• Edge, The Third Culture, has both an interview and article from Daniel Gilbert on the Science of Happiness. In a nutshell, people make errors, and we don’t seem to learn with past mistakes. Right.
• Finish band Lordi won the Eurovision Song Contest with this song, to the horror (pun intended) of many. It is reported to have made plenty of princess wannabes shudder under their glamorous but improvable little dresses. Cry us a river, Carola and company.

A list of historical sounds in mp3 format, from Spiro Agnew – Hippies to Woodrow Wilson – 1915 Speech to Indians. A bit US of A biased, but we get our Churchill, Hitler and Stalin. Oh and Che, how could I forget Che?!?. He is soooo coool!!! Kids love him.

… the movie. Requires Flash installed in your browser.

Just read this superb piece on Israel in the Haaretz. Written by Tony Judt, it deals among other things with Israel’s background and how it affects its affairs with the world. The author is not even afraid of having a stab at what can the country expect for the future if current policies persist. Enlightening stuff.

Speaking about Tony Judt, I would recommend his “Postwar: The History of Europe Since 1945” book heartily to those who are interested in Europe’s history and foreign affairs.