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Source (by request): X-Men Origin: Jean Grey (2008) #1
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“I am the greatest swordsman that ever lived. Say, um, can I have some of that water?”
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In the paint booth working on this mappa burl snare.
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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keep calm and carry on. (by br0-mantic)
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Unemployed librarian employs herself by collecting donated books and setting up make-shift libraries around Brooklyn. Proving that you may need a...
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Hamza Kashgari, a young writer for the Saudi daily newspaper Al Bilad who fled his homeland after being charged with offending Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, was seized upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be sent back to Saudi Arabia to face a possible death sentence.
Kashgari took to Twitter last week, prior to the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, and wrote down a series of seemingly innocuous reflections.
“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” the 23-year-old tweeted.
The response from tens of thousands of Saudis was immediate and unequivocal: Kashgari was a blasphemer and deserved to die.
He attempted to withdraw his comments and apologize — even beg — but the damage had been done. A short while later, King Abdullah personally ordered his arrest, and Kashgari became a fugitive.
He managed to escape Saudi Arabia, but didn’t get very far. “The Malaysian authorities are coordinating with Saudi Arabia to hand Kashgari over,” the Saudi newspaper Al Youm reported.
The country’s powerful Islamic Fatwa Committee has released a statement saying Kashgari must be punished in accordance with Islamic law. In other words: Execution.
[emirates247 / dailybeast.]
This is why we fight.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6vb6l5dc1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: Hamza Kashgari, a young writer for the Saudi daily newspaper Al Bilad who fled his homeland after being charged with offending Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, was seized upon arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and will be sent back to Saudi Arabia to face a possible death sentence.
Kashgari took to Twitter last week, prior to the anniversary of Muhammad’s birth, and wrote down a series of seemingly innocuous reflections.
“On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more,” the 23-year-old tweeted.
The response from tens of thousands of Saudis was immediate and unequivocal: Kashgari was a blasphemer and deserved to die.
He attempted to withdraw his comments and apologize — even beg — but the damage had been done. A short while later, King Abdullah personally ordered his arrest, and Kashgari became a fugitive.
He managed to escape Saudi Arabia, but didn’t get very far. “The Malaysian authorities are coordinating with Saudi Arabia to hand Kashgari over,” the Saudi newspaper Al Youm reported.
The country’s powerful Islamic Fatwa Committee has released a statement saying Kashgari must be punished in accordance with Islamic law. In other words: Execution.
[emirates247 / dailybeast.]
Sometimes the typing monkeys who put together captchas almost seem to know what they’re doing. This one’s from Twitter.
A Day at DIA
Tweets I didn’t send from DIA, where I spent the day waiting for a plane that was late, later, and too late, and then waiting for my suitcase, which got closer to the plane than I did but which eventually joined me for another night at the house in Denver:
No, you cannot access the Internet from baggage carousel 6 at DIA.
It’s a sickness. All this airport distress and I’ve no way to tweet about it..
I’m really looking forward to going through security again tomorrow. Should I try to find the same TSA folks or branch out?
I wonder if my bag is really coming to carousel 6—or if they just told me that to get me out of the way.
Being at DIA for 4 hours with nothing to show for it is not as much fun as it sounds.
Man. This free WiFi access at DIA is so fast my computer can’t even see it.
Remember when Neil Gaiman posted something to his journal that I’d sent him? Remember how I’m a hopeless geek about someone I’ve never met’s responding to even the smallest thought that I might have had that one time and oh my god just add Wil Wheaton to the list, mm’k?
/geek
The Epic Whale. Rather than actually spend the money to put this on a T-shirt, I decided just to upload it here. It would’ve gone in the pocket area of a dark brown T-shirt, and the text would’ve been white against a transparent background.
“This is the most dysfunctional technology relationship I’ve ever had.”
… in response to Twitter’s on-again/off-again relationship to its features. I feel his pain, and I’ve only been using Twitter for a couple of months. I don’t remember being very demanding with earlier apps like AIM, but I also don’t feel like this is necessarily being demanding. Twitter says it’s going to do Thing A, gets a few million users that like the idea of doing Thing A, and then promptly drops functionality regarding Things A.1, A.2, A.3 … or, in some worst-case scenarios (read: every day or so), drops functionality for all of Thing A. That is, it drops off the face of the intarweb altogether.
Sometimes it doesn’t even bother to use the cute but trite image of the whale flying on a web held aloft by birds. It just goes down. All the way down.
And it’s the strangest thing, this feeling that Twitter owes me something. Because it most certainly doesn’t. None of these free Web services do. And yet … if it would just would run smoothly, I’d be wearing Twitter T-shirts and singing its praises. As it is, I’m just singing its praises (the kid can’t help it) and hoping for the best in the long run.
C’mon, Twitter. Fix thyself.
I love Down for Everyone or Just Me? and find it very useful, but right now a search for Twitter.com (which is down) runs for about a minute and then crashes to an error page. Sweet.
On the other hand, istwitterdown.com corretly assesses that, yes, Twitter is down. It also wants to sell me a T-shirt. Blerg.
