AFP strikes again

"Suspected US strike kills eight, CIA chief in Pak"

As my friend who pointed that out to me observed, they probably meant that to be a semicolon, not a comma...

Crossposted to cranky_editors.

let's see if I can fit this all in here

( my book report on Jack Weatherford's <i>Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World</i> for my Central Asian History class )

the tortured way my mind works

I was looking up some dates about the Ottoman Empire (just to make a comparative jibe about the book cover illustration of Weatherford) when I got to a page about Ottoman art, which had this image.

Miniature painting of Noah's Ark by a Twentieth-century Turkish miniaturist

That is *so* beautiful! The clouds and the sea enchant me, but I also love all the little animal heads sticking out the portholes, the ship itself, the gold disc of the Moon (?), the few mountains still poking above the water, the buildings crumbling off them, and the fish swimming about in this great new sea! What an amazingly lovely piece of work!

while I'm bunging lots of posts up here

There's probably lots I haven't caught up on, but here's a start ( Read more... )