Looking up

I`d never heard of mammatus clouds before but they are very very weird.

The American Gulag II

Water boarding is torture... Period.

And it doesn`t work.

I wrote about this before here.

Images

The circle is the border of a national park in New Zealand seen from space. And other great photos.

Eddie Izzard and Lego mashed up

British movies vs. US movies


The British Empire


Church of England: Cake or Death?


And unmashed (on bilingualism):

Well she is definitely going clockwise for me...

How about you?

PS. Is that a joke? I have looked at it hard and cannot get it to go any other way than clockwise.
PPS. But then I go back to it and she is definitely going anti-clockwise. I am fairly convinced this has got nothing to do with what it says in the article.

Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

Or you could have been doing something more useful instead, like playing a free rice game from lots of corporate types.

It's international "Can't understand an effing word of it" day

Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal shows how those tedious late night discussion programmes should be done:



And a no reflection prank:

May the best brain hemisphere win!

Twinoo

Mapping

The History of Religion



History of the Middle East



And this time map of World War I is pretty neat too. As is this migration map.

Bamburgh

An interesting video

The Republican Mayor of San Diego Jerry Sanders making an announcement about a change of mind on gay marriage: video here.

An odd thing

Blogging this from my mobile phone. Sitting in the car in the mountains.A man just went past up the really steep road leading to Tanzawa Mountain with a full pack and a bumbag on a unicycle.

Some sites for mixed or expat families in Japan

A. and I are belatedly exploring ways of trying to get more linked into expat networks and wisdom about living over here. There is quite a flourishing scene:

Piqniq
Tokyo with Kids
Tokyo American Club

This one has an education section about international schooling:

Weekender