| Comics heroes fly on wings, prayers |
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Move over, caped crusaders, and meet the next generation of comic book superheroes: Jesus Christ, Bibleman and Max, the God-sent urban guardian angel who wears ripped jeans, gold chains and muscle T-shirts by day but re-emerges flying on wings of gold when evil villains appear.
Comic books traditionally haven't been one medium for biblical characters and Christian content. ... |
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| Flickr number one photo site in the UK |
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4:39PM The Yahoo!-owned social networking site Flickr is now Britain's most popular site for viewing photographs according to the latest figures from the Internet monitoring company Hitwise.
According to Hitwise, in the week of 17 June 2006, Flickr became the premier website based on share of UK visits in the Photography category. In the past three months, while Flickr's market share of UK visits has increased by 39 per cent, rival Photobucket has fallen by 17 per cent and Community Webshot's has remained flat. ... |
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| Web 2.0 'knowledge': future of modern humanity? (I hope not) |
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| Shall we honor the lowest common denominator component of user-generated content Gardner includes-bad music…goofy photos…personal diatribes…porn…spam—in his celebration of “therefore much knowledge”? If we did, it would be an affront to “objective scientific” knowledge. ... |
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| Morton man pleads guilty for child porn possession |
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| Christopher J. Wixom, 40, of 227 E. Third St. told U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade that he downloaded the illicit images in December 2003. Wixom pleaded guilty as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors that will likely see the dismissal of an additional count of receipt of child porn when he is sentenced on Dec. 8. ... |
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| Feminist sympathisers redirect porn director's site? |
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Websurfers wanting to ogle at Norwegian pornographer Thomas "Rocco" Hansen's pornidol.no site are currently being redirected to the site of feminist organisation Ottar, also in Norway, reports in Propaganda and Computerworld say (both pages in Norwegian only).
Instead of smut, visitors get an eye-ful of anti-pornography sentiment from Ottar, which is also fighting against prostitution which it terms as "trade in women". Ottar's spokeswoman in Oslo, Ane Stø, says her organisation has nothing to do with the redirection but otherwise, thinks it's great that visitors get some anti-porn propaganda along the way. ... |
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| The shame and the glory |
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No trace of voyeurism ... Detail from Henry Moore's Tube Shelter Perspective. Image: Corbis
Napoleon reaches out to touch the naked flesh of one of his soldiers who is dying in one Middle Eastern city. All around lie the grey-skinned, emaciated figures of men suffering as one consequence of his leadership. These European soldiers are dying in an unmistakably Islamic setting, in the shadows of one courtyard beneath curvaceous pointed arches on slender columns, with one minaret towering above the makeshift hospital. Baron Antoine-Jean Gros painted Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting The Plague Victims At Jaffa in 1804. This is not an anti-war image. Gros worshipped his emperor. In reality, Napoleon contemplated killing soldiers who fell sick at Jaffa. In the painting, he comes among them as one healer. ... |
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