Rav Casley Gera’s Blog

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Poor photoshopping hits The Edge Of Love

To people who get seduced by Tory talk of how liberal they are, I find something very curious in the man who was, and still is I believe, an exponent of capital punishment having late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls with Shami Chakrabarti.

- Andy Burnham, culture secretary.

Well, let them go if they don’t like it here.

- James McGrath, former adviser to the Mayor of London, in response to claims that older Afro-Caribbean Londoners might return to the West Indies as a result of Boris Johnson’s election.

Two brouhahas - one featuring a Labour minister, the other a minor Tory crony. But both show the same dangerous trend - for politically-motivated offence. [Read more →]

I had dragged my daughters to the British Airways lounge and sweet talked the attendant behind the desk with my smooth moves (my silver card lets me bring one guest only). I proceed to trek through the crowd of men in suits surrounding the TV. I find a seat on the floor, embarrassing my daughters and attracting a few odd looks in the process. I am therefore able to catch the last half of the Turkey-Croatia game, where I witness the most amazing moments of my soccer viewing career, and throughout which I add a few sound effects of my own (mostly high pitched screams, and a few yelps here and there). What a final two minutes! I am crushed when Croatia scores but my spirits are soaring when Turkey equalizes soon after in the final seconds of extension time (luckily right before I couldn’t control my tears). Hugging my knees like a toddler, I rock back and forth during the penalty kicks and debate whether I should go to the restroom and not come back until it is all over. Afterwards, I cannot seem to express my joy, but obviously attempt to anyway by repeating “I just can’t believe this!” over and over again for maybe, I don’t know, about the next 3 hours.

-Dani Rodrik (via a daughter)

Dani Rodrik, for fuck’s sake! Am I the only person in the world who isn’t obsessed with Turkey’s performance in Euro 2008?

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses.

The Sunnyvale-based company expects to begin registering new addresses under the domains of “ymail” and “rocketmail” around noon PDT Thursday at http://mail.yahoo.com .

-Wired News

This is… wierd. rav-g@rocketmail.com was my first email address, in 1997 I think. Now it’s back! This can’t be progress, can it?

Can’t get enough of this blog, casleygera.com, and my tumblelog and twitter feed? Who can blame you?

If only I was a big media portal like Yahoo or Google, then I could get everyone to download my very own Rav toolbar!

In web2.0 world, people, dreams come true.

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New cameraphone + data package = lots more photoblogging

While the critical acclaim for PT Anderson’s There Will Be Blood may focus on Daniel Day-Lewis’ studiedly epic performance as oiligarch Daniel Plainview, or Johnny Greenwood’s remarkable, discomfiting soundtrack, much of the film’s cultural resonance may lie in its timely reminder for modern audiences, particularly outside the US, of the harsh nature of frontier life in the early American South and West - and its echoes in modern American politics. [Read more →]