clusterflock » international http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 headline of the day http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-287.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-287.html#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:36:16 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81649 Chinese Oreos are tube-shaped

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-287.html/feed 2 It’s a Girl! http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/its-a-girl.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/its-a-girl.html#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:49:32 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81082

It’s a Girl! is a documentary about the systematic killing and suppression of girls in South Asia and around the world.

In India, China and many other parts of the world today, girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of this so-called “gendercide”.

Girls who survive infancy are often subject to neglect, and many grow up to face extreme violence and even death at the hands of their own husbands or other family members.

The war against girls is rooted in centuries-old tradition and sustained by deeply ingrained cultural dynamics which, in combination with government policies, accelerate the elimination of girls.

Speechless.

(via kottke)

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/its-a-girl.html/feed 4 coming out of sleep http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/coming-out-of-sleep-31.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/coming-out-of-sleep-31.html#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:38:35 +0000 Deron Bauman http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80963 You live in Canada? Want to try something awful?

Bonus: Teat for tête.

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/headline-of-the-day-iv-7.html/feed 0 “Hit me!” http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/hit-me.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/hit-me.html#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:06:26 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80854

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/hit-me.html/feed 6 Sign of the Times (and the Place) http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/sign-of-the-times-and-the-place.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/sign-of-the-times-and-the-place.html#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:44:44 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80269 Half a dozen Russian speakers, all under thirty, packed up their car after a weekend rental of one of my neighbor’s cottages here in the Driftless Regional Resort Region. A few may have glanced at me as I scrabbled in the dirt, digging up buried money and muttering, “I am uncovering my wealth.”

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/sign-of-the-times-and-the-place.html/feed 0 Films sans subtitles http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/films-sans-subtitles.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/films-sans-subtitles.html#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:39:41 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=80088 My friend Charlie is now living in Buenos Aires in a house full of folks from all over the world, and among them is Lauren Stephenson, whom some of you may know. The other night Charlie and Lauren went to the movies. Their command of Spanish was not up to the task of following the film as its makers intended, and Charlie reflected on the experience of watching a talkie without a solid grasp on the words the characters spoke.

There were a lot of solitary and broody fishermen in boats and seaside bars. And one mouthy whore. There was a girl thrown into the mix, but her character stared vacantly into the distance so often that I wondered what she was looking at. Was she psychic? Did she make that guy have a heart attack just by squinting through the window? What was she looking for in the distance anyway? Did she like to find beavers in clouds? Again, not sure.

]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/films-sans-subtitles.html/feed 4 Charles Coleman, the celluloid adventurist http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/charles-coleman-the-celluloid-adventurist.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/charles-coleman-the-celluloid-adventurist.html#comments Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:39:53 +0000 Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79908
Coleman, 47, is film programmer for Facets Multimedia.

One thing being lost is the art of conversation, of people seeing a movie and then actually having a good talk afterwards. — As told to J.R. Jones.

Man, does this put me in mind of my friend Charlie’s thoughts re: the “hidden cinema” he frequents in Buenos Aires.

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Just a plain old globe. Condition doesn’t really matter.

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Yes! this jet train built for political prisoners to dump in vast wilderness of Siberia.swift and speedy.one time kommissar directed to design bureau…,more and more jet engines to be fitted for smooth travel.genadi enraskoi of kommissar is responsible to see daily progress of the project.he was so keen to travel by this nasty time capsule.but he died in road accident before the project reached at testing stage.another prototype TURBOPROP,train was destroy after its first experimental run.unfortunatly they can`t perfectly aligned the pushing and pulling engines.soviets are planned new type of tracks for this train.but after some serious controlling and safety problems they abandoned this project.

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