Homo Aestheticus

Let’s clear some links:

• Occam’s Razor: a webcomic, the first I’ll post today, but not the last.
• In Praise of Bullshit: it cites On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt.
• Pinky TA: a second webcomic, but not the last.
• A Lesson Is Learned: webcomic number three … the one with the best, most surrealistic and beautiful art.
• Hamas TV makes a martyr out of Mickey Mouse double: “A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children’s television program was beaten to death in the show’s final episode Friday.” And: “In the final skit, ‘Farfour’ was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour’s land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a ‘terrorist.'” And you wonder why most of us have NO sympathy for Hamas, and, alas, equate them with all Palestinians. Cl.. Hamas’s tactics are no better than the Nazi’s in their portrayal of Jews. And as long as they use such xenophobic rhetoric, they’ll never gain international respect (except in the eyes of Iran).
• not included: webcomic number four!
• Dresden Codak: I’ve posted this comic before … it has great moments.
• poor thing must go through a ton of razors: an interesting work of “art.”
• Beautycheck: virtual attractiveness (with Virtual Miss Germany)
• Double uterus: “In a female fetus, the uterus starts out as two small tubes. As the fetus develops, the tubes normally join to create one larger, hollow organ — the uterus. Sometimes, however, the tubes don’t join completely. Instead, each one develops into a separate cavity. This condition is called double uterus (uterus didelphys).”
• Films that may be more interesting with a letter or two missing: from McSweeney’s — including “Aging Bull,” Who Framed Roger Rabbi” and “The Earless Vampire Killers.”
• Grass’s Fact and Fiction, Fighting to a Draw: The NY Times on Guenter Grass’s recent memoir, in English — “‘Peeling the Onion’ is a verbally dazzling but often infuriating piece of work, bristling with harsh self-criticism, murky evasions and coy revisions of a past that, Mr. Grass steadfastly insists, presents itself to his novelist’s imagination as a parade of images and stories asking to be manipulated.”
• Tolkien tales come alive in Denmark’s Faeroe Islands: It would be lovely to visit.

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