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The wreck of a German tank, which was destroyed during a battle on the Western Front. Black and white photographs often feel more genuine than color images — more truthful, somehow — especially those depicting historical events. Much of that perceived authenticity derives from the fact that black and white pictures seem to be, in the most positive way, far simpler than their color counterparts. The world itself (we like to tell ourselves) was simpler in the latter part of 19th century, and in the earliest decades of the 20th. It was only when human experience began to accelerate and...

Miss Bikini Universe 2013, Miriam Mattová (Slovakia) More at Reaganite Republican... (prolly not sfw this week- kinda pushing the envelope)

From the day that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act went into effect to the morning that the federal healthcare exchange went live, 1288 days passed. 3 years, 6 months, and 8 days. In all that time, our federal government could not construct a website that actually worked, and we are still waiting for a final product. Here are 4 things the United States government accomplished in less time than it has taken to build a working website: (Number 2 is pretty amazing) http://www.camharris.us/2013/11/4-things-the-us-government-accomplished-in-less-time-than-it-took-to-build-a-working-obamacare-website/

Not that I'm knocking their quality-control or anything... 'Miss Aerobik 2013' Jana Šimičková. Check-out the BRUTAL competition at Reaganite Republican... (sfw unless you work with some real kooks-  just a few innocent bikini shots)

Culture Correct is a side project that I'm working on at Tumblr (follow me here) and Facebook (like the page here) that posts "culturally correct" content that wouldn't be a good fit at The Looking Spoon.I'm also using this to focus on original graphics that are based more on iconography and illustration rather than the Photoshop work and memes normally seen at TLS. I also want to try to create pieces here that will be a bit more timeless conceptually, as most memes tend to be more of a snapshot in time. Here are some of the original designs that...

As in pretty dang cute- More at Reaganite Republican... (should be sfw, couple innocent binkini shots)

An experiment has shown that radiation from WiFi does not pose apparent harm to the human body and many doubt that WiFi is a cancer risk, reports Guangzhou Daily. Many young people are wary of the effects of 24-hour long exposure to WiFi. Some netizens appealed to their friends and relatives to turn off their WiFi connection or router before going to sleep, and some even claimed that WiFi could kill plants. According to the recent reports, however, WiFi can be likened to natural light in that it is a kind of radiation in a broad sense and is harmless...

Though representing The Phillipines at Miss World 2013 -which she won handily in August- Megan Lynne Young was actually born in Virginia, USA- to an American father and Filipina mother. The young beauty is already a local TV star in the Philippines -where she resides- has done some stuff in the States, and now Miss World- what a nice Catholic girl they raised, gonna to have to be a real gentleman if you think you're ever going to get your paws on this one, boys... More/video at Reaganite Republican...

It never ceases to amaze me how on one hand cultural products considered offensive to Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism are treated as “hate crimes”. If, God forbid, a book or a film offends Islam (and that is easy enough, because Muslims do get easily offended), on top of being labelled a hate crime it also puts author, director or producers’ lives at risk with a fatwa (in fact, a film about Islam would be even too dangerous to make). But on the other hand to offend Christianity is “art”, as in the case of Chris Ofili's painting of the Virgin...

WASHINGTON — Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone will take a break from killing bad guys on screen to reveal his more sensitive side in a retrospective of his paintings that will be exhibited in St. Petersburg's Russian Museum later this month. "It's very, very flattering because there's so many great artists in the world," Stallone said Wednesday in an interview on the U.S. television show "Good Morning America." "But for some reason, they chose me to go over there and show this 40-year retrospective of all the paintings from the beginning up until now, which I thought was really odd. And...

Over the past 20 years the pace and scale of urbanization in Asia has been unprecedented,” says Jonathan D. Solomon, the curator of Practical Utopias: Global Urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, an exhibition at AIA New York’s Center for Architecture. “Asia today is a vast experiment in what makes a city,” says Solomon, associate dean at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, who lived in Hong Kong for six years before recently returning to the U.S.

An Iranian court sentenced a Korean to seven years in prison for taking photos of security facilities. The Iranian government notified the Korean Foreign Ministry two months after the arrest. Democratic Party lawmaker Park Byeong-seog on Monday said the 44-year-old man identified as Kim was arrested in October last year and sentenced to seven years in jail in September this year. He was found guilty of spying on security facilities by taking photos of police stations, foreign embassies, military facilities, and border signs with the alleged purpose of delivering them to a foreign government. The court did not specify which...

Truth is, Norway has never won the 'Miss World' crown- while fellow Nordics in Sweden can boast of three winners, as can Iceland. Along with Denmark, Norway has not fared too well at Miss World... so could perhaps Miss Backstrom change that a bit? More at Reaganite Republican...

More shooting and showing the cool little XDs in 9mm, as well as a reminder about the recall. I'm anxious to get this pistol back from Springfield, as it is definitely a fine shooter.http://www.springfield-armory.comhttp://www.springfieldrecall.com

Photo taken on September 23rd, 2013 shows a villa with a more than 200-square-meter underground palace, where large-scale demolition will be carried out, in Xiwang Community in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province. The villa owner, who is reportedly the deputy head of a local police station, is suspected of hiring workers to dig the underground palace beneath his villa in order to cheat for relocation compensation.

North Korean Central TV on Monday aired more performances by the newly-created Moranbong troupe attended by leader Kim Jong-un. The show featured various groups of female singers and instrumentalists in their early to mid-20s dressed in mini-skirts, high-heeled shoes or off-the-shoulder tops. The troupe enjoyed a brief moment in the international spotlight by dressing up as Disney characters in one performance, another first for the staunchly anti-imperialist nation.

QINGDAO, China – China's Wanda Group has unwrapped an $8.2 billion film investment plan to transform the country's movie industry into the world's biggest within five years, and group chairman Wang Jianlin said the company, which bought the AMC theater chain last year, is just starting to expand globally. Hollywood A-listers turned out in force in searing sunshine in Qingdao, northeastern China, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Kidman and Harvey Weinstein there to show moral support for the Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis complex, which is slated to open in 2017 in the eastern Chinese port city. The facility will include a...

Agneta Myhrman Lilliesköld is an up-and-coming Swedish beauty recently crowned 'Miss World Sweden'- she's now set to represent Sweden at Miss World 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia...   More at Reaganite Republican...