Recommended browsing selected from the blogroll for the weekend of August 28-29
“The swimmer” by Sam Javanrouh (Daily Dose of Imagery)
“The missing and murdered women of Vancouver deserve an inquiry” by Libby Davies (Rabble.ca) 
Davies, the MP for Vancouver East, makes an impassioned case for a public inquiry into the actions of law enforcement regarding her city’s multitude of missing — and presumably murdered — women, many of whom are sex workers.
“Writers are naturally drawn, chimpanzee-like, to the color and the music of this English idiom we are blessed to have inherited. When given the choice we will usually try to use the more vivid and tuneful among its words.” “Thomas Pynchon on plagiarism” (Letters of Note)
“Video Messages From Trapped Chilean Miners” by Alexei Barrionuevo and Robert Mackey (The Lede) The three-week-old rescue effort to reach miners who have been trapped in a collapsed shaft beneath Chile’s Atacama Desert is moving at the pace of a British Petroleum recovery effort: industry experts estimate it will take another three to four months of continuous drilling to reach the men. Rescuers, however, have managed to lower a miniature video camera through a four-inch feeding tube. On Thursday night, Chilean national television broadcast a video message recorded by the thirty-three miners to their loved ones.
“English Russia » Playing Cards from Ukraine” (Ffffound!)
“Couple will evenly split 8-foot-tall pile of money in the spare bedroom… Tiger gets the couple’s Ford Festiva… Elin is now the face of Gillette Mach 3 razors…” “Terms of Tiger’s Divorce” (The Onion)
“What if everyone jumped?” by Rhett Allain (ScienceBlogs) For one thing, complicated algebra would ensue. Allain, an associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University, theorizes that if every human on Earth jumped at once, the planet would move. The tricky part is figuring out by how much.
“The war artist set to her pencils. She drew quickly, with harsh movements, fragments of the scene she had heard. The face of the mother filled an entire panel, her mouth a terrible wound. The soldier occupied his own panel, away from the mother, his arm raised in a half-realized gesture of comfort. Apart from these, she described a mostly empty space for the children: a faint horizon line with nothing above or below it, save a few flecks to signify earth and a wisp of cloud for sky.” “The War Artist”; fiction by Margaret Luongo (Granta)
“ABC News Hidden Camera Shows How Muslims Are Treated in America” by Max Fisher (The Atlantic Wire) This 2008 ABC News clip is newly relevant again. Two years on, the hidden camera ruse — in which an actor playing a deli counter jockey refuses service to an actress playing a customer because she is wearing a hijab — plays like a trailer for current events in lower Manhattan.
“Ottawa terror suspect’s Canadian Idol audition” by Andre Mayer (Things That Go Pop!) Speaking of timely video from 2008, the Corp’s arts and culture blog has unearthed the Canadian Idol audition of Khurram Sher, who is one of three men now charged with conspiracy to facilitate a terrorist conspiracy (i.e., blow up Canada). Sher’s performance of Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” failed to impress the show’s judges. In other (insensitive) words… dude bombed.
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