Stuff that caught my eye.Tumblr (3.0; @beyondutility)http://beyondutility.org.uk/<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6b3ivrORg1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span> </span></p> <h2>Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go?</h2>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/874103833http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/874103833Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:32:00 +0100<a href="http://wales.gov.uk/docs/det/report/100705anewdirectionen.pdf">WAG- Economic Renewal Document</a>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/856456195http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/856456195Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:44:00 +0100“The study, entitled “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005-2009”, is by Dr Busby, Malak Hamdan and Entesar Ariabi, and concludes that anecdotal evidence of a sharp rise in cancer and congenital birth defects is correct. Infant mortality was found to be 80 per 1,000 births compared to 19 in Egypt, 17 in Jordan and 9.7 in Kuwait. The report says that the types of cancer are “similar to that in the Hiroshima survivors who were exposed to ionising radiation from the bomb and uranium in the fallout”.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/toxic-legacy-of-us-assault-on-fallujah-worse-than-hiroshima-2034065.html</a></a></em>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/856024801http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/856024801Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:04:47 +0100<a href="http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2009/buffy-vs-edward-twilight-remixed">Buffy v Edward</a>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/849544459http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/849544459Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:57 +0100<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLF6sAAMb4s&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bLF6sAAMb4s&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.feministfrequency.com/">The Bechdel test</a></p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/849494307http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/849494307Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:15:19 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5wmmaxAqW1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sandralange.com/painting2009.html">Sandra Lange</a>, <span>Amontiado, 2009, Acryl/Öl auf Cotton, 150x150cm</span></p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/840366189http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/840366189Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:01:20 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5wlh3lzOL1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Workspace.</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/840307742http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/840307742Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:36:39 +0100“In a genre where crude titles are an art in themselves, Melick is a true artist. Satan Burger, The Cannibals of Candyland, Adolf in Wonderland, War Slut, The Haunted Vagina, The Faggiest Vampire, The Baby Jesus Butt Plug, and my personal alliterative favourite, Warrior Wolf Women of the Wasteland. These are titles that fail to offend only because of their blatant offensiveness, and illustrate Bizarro’s fascination with the vulgar, smutty, distasteful and crude.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jul/16/bizarro-fiction-terribly-good">Bizarro fiction: it’s terribly good</a></em>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/830901278http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/830901278Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:15:21 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5r3nqewN11qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This week I have mostly been trying to photograph seagulls in flight. <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/beyond.utility/AmrothSummer2010#">Picasa album</a> here, also includes Felix and Mark’s visit last month.</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/827518872http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/827518872Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:23:49 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5l5loV9Wh1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jon Taplin calls for an end to Corporate Welfare now.</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/814116008http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/814116008Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:20:11 +0100<object width="400" height="255"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X-Qlz2631Ic&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X-Qlz2631Ic&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="255" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Game animator James Benson has developed some videos which shows the characters of Team Fortress 2 dancing. </p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/793563420http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/793563420Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:24:21 +0100<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0GThtMAZGYU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0GThtMAZGYU&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/793401014http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/793401014Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:06:38 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l55myyIfyt1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/778212145http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/778212145Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:13:46 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4z18qgRHz1qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Dave says, “I went to Taco Bell and grabbed a handful of plastic sporks and tried some lost-plastic-casting in silver (which cost about $18 per spork).”</span></p> <p><span>Atta-boy Dave…</span></p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/764735780http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/764735780Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:38:50 +0100<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="224" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11435910&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11435910&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11435910&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="224"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/757982078http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/757982078Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:51:06 +0100<object width="400" height="329"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5Ycih_jMObQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5Ycih_jMObQ&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="329" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/756634316http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/756634316Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:07:30 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4s48hfLI61qz5feco1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>When Traffic hits a paywall….</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/749705853http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/749705853Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:00:17 +0100<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDRyRC5ocK8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/uDRyRC5ocK8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>Mansel Phillips, (Head of IT at Carmarthenshire County Council) shows Tonia a couple of his cawl spoons and critiques the spoons that Tonia made.<br/><br/>Cawl, the national stew of wales was traditionally eaten with wooden spoons in some areas of wales. The spoons that Mansel shows in this video were made by his wife’s uncle who died about 15 years ago. His hobby was making spoons. I made my first spoon, a love spoon about 10 years ago. A couple of years ago I took Welsh Classes, and this caused me to think about ‘Welsh identity’ and became curious about the more domestic, everyday version of the handmade spoon, like the ones I saw in an antique market in Llandeilo. I then started experimenting with carving spoons. </p> <p><br/>Apologies for the camera shake, it was sat on the table, clearly not a winning strategy. This was a test of the new JVC Everio GZ-HD300. The cropping to exclude Mansel’s head was deliberate, I wanted to film Mansel’s hands in automatic mode because I was interested in concentrating on the handling of the spoons.</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/745582053http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/745582053Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:05:00 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4o0udTBU51qz5feco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Lowri Davies Ceramics</p>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/741398875http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/741398875Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:56:00 +0100<object width="400" height="254"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZe1AeH0Qz8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZe1AeH0Qz8&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="254" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/737600684http://beyondutility.org.uk/post/737600684Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:42:17 +0100