Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:15:42 am
Beloved American poet Maya Angelou passed away today at age 86. Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" -- which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South -- was among the first autobiographies by ...

Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 5:44:19 pm
Vimeo We are submerged in a dry swimming pool. A SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, floppy disk drives and hard drives sing in unison. The unusual ensemble (controlled live via MIDI) are given a last curtain call in a nostalgic farewell to forgotten friends. Video by James Houston "I asked Julian ...

Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:59:21 am
Here’s the aerial footage released today by the IDF, showing Israeli soldiers boarding the Rachel Corrie and taking control of the vessel. There was no violence and no one was killed or injured. Of course, there was no ambush by violent radical Islamists either. Funny how those two factors seem to ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:16:28 pm
The Jerusalem Post has a report that the next ship full of peace activists trying to run Israel’s blockade on Gaza, the Rachel Corrie, has been intercepted and “taken” by the Israeli navy. The website of the Malaysian NGO which is co-sponsoring the Rachel Corrie, reports that the ship was ...