Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Chip Zdarsky's how to draw Ghost Rider cover

"Firewatch is getting review-bombed on Steam"

"I poked at the most recent 50 negative user reviews and 43 of them show zero hours played in the past two weeks; of those that do have recent time on the clock, five of them are for less than an hour."

Monday, September 11, 2017

"Compared to 20 years ago, many of the most transit accessible neighborhoods in Los Angeles are significantly more expensive, and home to more affluent demographics than they once were"

"Metro’s declining ridership, explained. Ridership is down nearly 20 percent since 2013."

Johnny Hekker of the Rams is the punter to watch



Joe King's alternate Rams and Chargers logos





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"Rohingya crisis: Seeing through the official story in Myanmar"

BBC:
The government's purpose in bringing us was to balance the overwhelmingly negative narrative coming from the Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh, who have almost all spoken of a deliberate campaign of destruction by the Myanmar military and Rakhine mobs, and appalling human rights abuses.

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We were then taken to a Buddhist temple, where a monk described Muslims burning down their own homes, nearby. We were given photographs catching them in the act. They looked strange.

Men in white haji caps posed as they set light to the palm-thatch roof. Women wearing what appeared to be lacy tablecloths on their heads melodramatically waved swords and machetes. Later I found that one of the women was in fact the animated Hindu woman from the school, and I saw that one of the men had also been present in among the displaced Hindu.

They had faked the photos to make it look as though Muslims were doing the burning.

Sunday, September 10, 2017