Protests continue daily at the Chinese Consulate on the West Side Highway at 42th Street, where at night the Free Tibet crowd has been projecting a giant Tibetan flag and other images onto the bare face of the building. After the protesters posted a video of their projection of the Olympic rings turning into handcuffs, the International Olympic Committee lodged a protest to YouTube and the video was pulled. You can still see the clip on Vimeo. I don't know where the law stands on projecting unwanted images onto somebody's building, but I imagine it's not kosher.I took this pic from Pier 84, where tonight their Sunset Thursdays event continues. Full story...
The woman hit on the head with her Bible in last Friday's melee in the Castro went on Bill O'Reilly last night to claim that her group doesn't seek the conversions of gays.
Over on Huffington Post, Phil Zuckerman makes an interesting comparison between very religious nations and relatively secular ones in respect to the Christiantists' claim that God smites heathen nations.
Unhappy news from the Washington Times:
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
From the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins:
The surest way to lose the culture war is refusing to fight.
The Clintons have passed the Obama team's vetting process in Hillary's candidacy for Secretary of State.
In which they makes signs and welcome home total strangers.
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INTP: The ThinkersThe logical and analytical type.
The world's largest and brightest LED billboard lit up in Times Square last night. Via New York Times:
The new Walgreens sign going live in Times Square Thursday is not the largest LED-based sign in the world, but its developers believe that it is the most complex, both in terms of its construction and operation.
The Sun UK is reporting that Michael Jackson has converted to Islam.
The skint superstar, 50, donned Islamic garb to pledge allegiance to the Koran in a ceremony at a pal’s mansion in Los Angeles, The Sun can reveal.
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