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Beckhal’s Tears is the first film to safely come out of Iraq addressing the current discord for women in the region and the culture. Laund Omar is only the third director to bring a completed film out of Iraqi Kurdistan after seeing "that nobody was doing anything for the youth, not in society and not in the media" in this region. Placing rave-pop dancer Ozzie Aziz in the lead role, this film has recieved middle eastern and international recognition, but of course has slipped through popular American press attention.
posted by screenname00 at 10:15 PM PST - 5 comments

Aaron Russo releases America: Freedom to Fascism on the net!
posted by augustweed at 10:05 PM PST - 48 comments

CNN's guide to the Indie Scene. Not for posers!
posted by thirteenkiller at 7:48 PM PST - 128 comments

1950's US Print Advertisements Click thumbnails for larger versions. via.
posted by jonson at 5:29 PM PST - 22 comments

Chief of the General Staff General Sir Richard Dannatt has given an interview to the Daily Mail in which he says that the presence of British troops makes the security problems in Iraq worse . The General won the MC aged 22 in an action in Northern Ireland, so he presumably knows a thing or two about insurgency, never mind courage. Mr Blair has agreed...
posted by A189Nut at 4:07 PM PST - 36 comments

A Soldier's Tale, featured on the always excellent Cursor, catches us up with Lynndie England (not to mention her hybrid child).
posted by malaprohibita at 3:46 PM PST - 22 comments

Newsfilter : Lightning exits woman's bottom. Unfortunately, there's no video.
posted by crunchland at 3:41 PM PST - 43 comments

Radio Lab! Already listened to everything This American Life offers or maybe looking for something a bit smarter and full of science? Maybe you'll like Radio Lab. Maybe you'll like the mind-blowing and historically expanding episode on music. Maybe older history is your cup of tea -- how about biblical times and how they sit in shoeboxes in Oxford. A stack of shows available via podcast, MP3 download (and some .RAM, sorry).
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:20 PM PST - 11 comments

(RED) is an initiative started by Bono and Bobby Shriver, to (Embrace) you in the fight against AIDS in Africa whenever you buy iconic red-colored products like the iPod, Amex card, Armani and others. A portion of the sales proceeds of each product goes to the Global Fund charity that gives away antiretroviral drugs to HIV infected people. Watch out for Bono painting the town red with/on Oprah today to mark its US release. Make friends with it on mySpace.
posted by forwebsites at 2:47 PM PST - 36 comments

Air samples over North Korea show no radiation "It is possible there was no radiological data. That could be the case if: the North Koreans successfully sealed the site; it was such a small detonation and so deep underground there was no escape of nuclear debris; or the test was actually conventional explosives."
posted by Artw at 2:10 PM PST - 57 comments

friday flash fun!
draw a line from the man to the flag and make him walk across it. watch out for the spikes!
posted by alon at 1:14 PM PST - 13 comments

Game/Computer Magazine Scans - 1982/83
posted by Otis at 12:51 PM PST - 19 comments

Idol
posted by gwint at 12:20 PM PST - 88 comments

"I've seen what happened in Abu Ghraib, and Abu Ghraib was not torture." [brief youtube video, safe for work, only tortured analysis, no actual torture or sex]
"The bottom line was it was sex. . . . It wasn't primarily about torture."
posted by orthogonality at 10:00 AM PST - 75 comments

It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be sufficient. (fearsome flash friday fun). Battle zombies and contemplate he whose name cannot be spoken. No, not him.
posted by blackfly at 9:34 AM PST - 34 comments

CBGB is closing at the end of the month. Yeah, newsfilter, NYCfilter, say what you will, and the club hasn't "mattered" in decades, but anyone who cares about punk rock will feel the pang. This should probably have been posted by jonmc, but I wanted to do it so I could highlight this excellent piece by Paul Collins; besides the inevitable "I played CBs" anecdote, there's some wonderful history of the site. [Quote inside.]
posted by languagehat at 8:48 AM PST - 110 comments

Canada troops battle 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants - Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.
posted by frecklefaerie at 8:41 AM PST - 73 comments

Good old flash friday.... waste away your friday with this ping-pong game
posted by djseafood at 7:46 AM PST - 14 comments

Totems. It's in japanese, but the point of the game is to click the little guys before they go away. (flash friday)
posted by empath at 6:42 AM PST - 20 comments

Gillo Pontecorvo, director, has died at 86. Most famous for his controversial classic, The Battle of Algiers (a movie whose relevence is still being felt ), he also directed numerous other films over a long career. Pontecorvo threads previously on mefi 1, 2
posted by Chrischris at 6:07 AM PST - 15 comments

In 1976, a young Bangladeshi economics professor named Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen Bank to implement microcredit — lending small sums to the very poorest members of society. Today, he and his bank share the Nobel Peace prize. Grameen, a profit-making company with social objectives, has lent $5.3bn to 6.4m people. 97% of borrowers are women, as Yunus believes [video] "men will do whatever they could to enjoy for themselves personally [but] women looked at it for the children, for the family and for the future."
posted by matthewr at 3:55 AM PST - 24 comments

Tell a story in 5 frames is a Flickr "group" and nothing more. Not every folksonomy succeeds as well as this one. "ride of your life" is a classic.
posted by paulsc at 2:06 AM PST - 15 comments