A Different Drummer

Three worldly gentlemen keep chillin' like villains in the Amsterdam-Budapest-Cairo Axis of Awesome, and keep on delivering you the internet's finest every Monday. This week's edition brought to you by the old timey barber who just gave me a shave with a straight razor, complete with facial lashings with a twig of lavender and many steaming hot towels. I salute you, Abu Ahmed.

Enjoy:

ABC Linkdump - 2006 Nov 13-20

TG - Via Aly, this is an interesting documentary on media coverage of the Middle East, watch it online for free at Google Video - "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land" by Bathsheba Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally

AJ- Jesus Camp, a documentary about a charismatic Christian summer camp for children to learn about their "prophetic gifts" and how they can "take back America for Christ." Their chief "prophet" preaches a message urging children to join the fight to end abortion. He prays for George W. Bush to have the strength to appoint "righteous judges" who will overturn Roe v. Wade. By the end of the sermon, the children are chanting, "Righteous judges! Righteous judges!" At one point Pastor Fischer states, "I want to see young people who are as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as the young people are to the cause of Islam," she tells the camera. "I want to see them radically laying down their lives for the gospel, as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine." The Guardian. Trailer.

TG - Heh. Slashdot.org, the geeky industrial strength web community, just reached 16,777,216 comments, which is 2²⁴, the limit for their SQL database. Fear not though, they are powering through a newer, geekier solution as we speak...

PB - A quick video, on how to win a million bucks the coolest way possible.

AJ- Some techy business PC World's 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time. Yes Realplayer you deserve to die and I hope you burn in hell. "Just how bad is Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing? It's as bad as your mind will allow you to comprehend."

AJ- Brilliant Minds Forecast the Next 50 Years . New Scientist asked over 70 of the world's most brilliant scientists for their ideas on.... the future.

AJ- I've been enthralled by the World Press Photo Exhibition for the last few years here in Amsterdam- where it exhibits in the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in the Red Light.

PB - HP tries to make a new brand image with Jay-Z in it's ads - and comments

PB - On some more ads, check out Dylan in Vitoria Secret's new campaign (yeah Bob Dylan)

PB - A tribute to Johnny Cash done in the way fit for the man, singing "but I shot a man in Reno, jus tto watch him die" in Folsom Prison

PB - I know it's almost boring, but here again Bush stupidity, indeed the apple and the tree it falls from.

TG- Nice Middle East news and blog roundup from Arabist.net

TG- AOL released 3 months worth of its customers' search records a few months ago, and the goons at somethingawful.com did some hilarious analysis, well worth checking out...