Always wanted to go there, maybe in my next life:

http://www.etereaestudios.com/movies/isfahan_movies/isfahan_mov_youtube.htm

I logged on a Polish site similar to Facebook and saw that Poland is obsessed with Howard Webb (the referee that ruled a penalty in Austria's favour in the Poland-Austria game in the 91st minute). I know next to nothing about football so it's not up to me to decide if that was just or not, but the hatred towards that poor guy is so great that he was given police protection! Googling on, I found this site that is a collection of photoshop caricatures of Webb (most of captions in Polish) and his alleged selling of the game. Here's a sample:




Seems we finally have an enemy on our own

How can anybody take photos in such a serious life and death situation:

http://www.funonthenet.in/forums/index.php?topic=80293.new;topicseen

The French fashion designer has spent millions buying up houses in the tiny medieval village of Lacoste, but many locals are upset by what they see as his feudal manner.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jun/07/france.fashion?picture=334646246

Election diary: George W Albatross
By Rob Reynolds in Washington DC

McCain has tried, in a fitful and not very effective way, to distance
himself from President George Bush [AFP]

What evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

George Bush is the bird McCain cant get rid of.
Al Jazeera

in reference to this topic, I just received a note from my friend who lives close to this castle in S. France:

The French fashion designer has spent millions buying up houses in the tiny medieval village of Lacoste, but many locals are upset by what they see as his feudal manner.


www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jun/07/france.fashi...

"The village he bought" is a slight exaggeration. He bought the Château (castle) of the Marquis de Sade (the word Sadism comes from that man who was the first noted sadist. The castle was a ruin, was first bought by a mailman who however couldn't restore it because of financial problems. Then Pierre Cardin bought it, restored it in part, and now every Summer there is a festival planned by him with operas, concerts, plays, at the most outrageous prices.

While there might be a few abandoned houses in the village (I never heard however that he bought other than the castle), the villagae is inhabited by the people and their families who were there generations before the Cardin Snob arrived. He is not very popular in the village to say the least. Also now this formerly quiet medieval village is run over by thousands of tourists, of which Cardin profits but not the villagers.

London Naked Bike Run
caption of the images say:A naked bike ride took place in Hyde Park , London , on 14/06/2008. Every year, in cities around the world, people ride naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency.