Wayward notes and Comments from the ether in my eyes

To do tomorrow in Los Angeles: visit the opening of a site-specific installation by The Date Farmers and Logan at the Constant Gallery's exhibition, Desert Sexy. Snip from the folks putting it together: Desert Sexy is a group survey that explores the concept of the influence and context of the Calif ...

A quick roundup of news links related to the ongoing violent clashes in China's Xinjiang region between Han Chinese and ethnic Uighurs (who consider the region a sovereign nation - in many respects, the conflict is similar to that of Tibet.) ♦ Image above, from an extensive Boston Globe photo-ess ...

(image: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images via NYT) During the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, an incident occured in which hundreds or thousands of Taliban POWs were killed by a warlord supported by the US. Bush administration officials repeatedly thwarted efforts to investigate the mass killing, according ...

The Stanford University School of Medicine has a fascinating Flickr stream, including a collection of mystery medical history photos that I posted about several months ago. Most recently, they added a small set of interesting images from their 3D Radiology Lab. Above: "3D frontal view of teeth with ...

The warrantless wiretapping program initiated under the Bush administration began within a few weeks of 9/11, according to a report recently released to Congress and compiled by intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, and the DoJ: The report, mandated by Congress, provides context to information that h ...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was forced to apologize publicly for attacking his political rival Michael Ignatieff at the G8 over a quote that was wrongly attributed to the Opposition leader by a senior Harper aide.

For the first time in the 19-day strike Toronto Mayor David Miller has released comprehensive details of the city's latest offer to its striking workers.

A charging bull gored a young Spanish man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others were injured in a particularly dangerous and chaotic chapter of the running of the bulls.

The only thing that angers Torontonians more than its mayor, according to a new Toronto Star /Angus Reid poll, is the city's striking unions.

Dave Carroll's ode to a broken guitar has turned into an Internet tempest and become a cause célèbre for any musician who has ever had a maddening flight experience.