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When should you pray?
There are two times to pray: when you feel like it, and when you don’t.” AW Tozer
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Uri Geller’s haunted letterbox
A inaccessible letterbox “mysteriously” appears in the leafy village home to showman Uri Geller Twyford Advertiser
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Teen Exorcists – the Beginning
The BBC are scheduled to run a piece on Brynne Larson,Tess and Savannah Scherkenback, three ass-kicking teen exorcists from Arizona, who like martial arts and horse riding but hate ‘Harry Potter’ and...
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New alternative to plastic surgery for Asian women: a plastic face
Click to view slideshow. Nothing I’ve written about on this blog has resonated with readers like the stories on facial plastic surgery across Asia. There’s a trend for young women – especially in South...
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Russian ban on Pussy Riot ‘icon’
A Russian court has ruled that an “icon” created by Artyom Loskutov and Maria Kiseleva to raise money for convicted protesters, Pussy Riot, offends religious sensibilities and must be banned from...
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“We didn’t bother to make it happen”
The Art Newspaper debates whether India’s failure to show at the Venice Biennale signals a crisis in India’s arts scene. More at “Missing in Venice” - Indian Express: “If Angola and Estonia can present...
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“I brought Las Vegas to Soho”
Chris Bracey, who works with neon lights, has made work for both the sex industry and the film industry. His eclectic London yard and workshop has the largest collection of neon signs outside of the...
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“Star Trek meets “Pulp Fiction”
Click to view slideshow. Artist Juan Ortiz has just published a landmark of glorious design myopia, sure to delight even the most self-absorbed geek. The Disney / Warner artist has created “unique...
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Saved from Salvation? Secular Safe Zones for Atheist Students
The Secular Student Alliance has a new scheme to provide designated ‘Safe Zones’ at US colleges, where Atheists can “explore their developing secular identities, free from … ostracization and...
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The UK’s forgotten war factories
Fascinating pictures in this great piece by @elliebuc in the UK’s sex-and-self-loathing tabloid, The Daily Mail. Exploring Britain’s forgotten factories, deep underground, built during WWII
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Order often hides more than it reveals – Weinberger
The basic fact that order often hides more than it reveals has sometimes itself been hidden within the art and science of organizing our world.” David Weinberger.
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HIGH SCORE? Bruce Lee vs Fruit Ninja
Bruce Lee vs Fruit Ninja: paste-up from Battipaglia, Italy, via Global Street Art
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‘Foreigners Everywhere’, Moscow Jewish Museum
Spread C-006, 2009, by Xu Zhen’s MadeIn company in Shanghai Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center took over the popular Garage art space – a landmark Constructivist building - last November....
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Artbombing in oils – is this the first?
ARTBOMBING? “My wife won’t have it in the house” An elderly British couple singled out to receive a 200 year old oil painting of an “ugly…threatening .. old crone“ have been left “mystified” and...
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Art Deco in the Ozarks: chapel under threat
The Thorncrown Chapel in Arkansas is a beautiful non-denominational wooden chapel, open to anyone who wants to use it, whether for weddings, services or a quiet spot to think. Designed by architect E....
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Grave Error? Council Bans Maths Memorial
Set in stone: equations “lower standard of graveyard”, say parish chiefs. An English council has ordered a widow to pull up her mathematician husband’s gravestone. Why? Because it features a two-inch...
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Keeping the art switched on
“Bar Code Hotel” 1994 Great piece by the BBC about the German museum for interactive art and digital art conservation. Curators try to keep as many pieces as possible working for as long as possible....
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“Racist” Redskins get rebrand
Is time running out for the Washington Redskins? For decades, Native American activists have been pressuring the NFL club to drop their racist iconography. Today the mayor of the city, the media and...
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“Halal Sexshop” Lacks Good Vibrations
33,000 visitors a day are logging on to Turkey’s “first online sex shop for Muslims”, launched last week. The Helal Sex Shop offers herbal aphrodisiacs, no-alcohol lubricants and “advice on how to...
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Afghanistan; Shock of the Now
Paghman Gardens was laid out in the 1920s This saddening and thought-provoking image brings together two photographs made forty years apart. The first, by a Denver professor on sabbatical, is of his...
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