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Via Smart Mobs:

Time Magazine have chosen Adam Stacey’s cameraphone picture as one of the Best Photos of the Year 2005 - of his experience on the london underground during the attack in London on the 7th of July 2005.

I really must admit, I still get these intense shivers when I see the photo of the guy holding his shirt up to cover his face like a mask. (See the iconic image here, in it’s original-ish context…) For me it’s this weird convergence point - - the image itself feels like it shouldn’t be real, can’t be real - - it’s a freeze frame from a video game cut scene. But it’s not. And those people are suffering and frightened and in so much peril. Which makes it recurse into the this is out of some video game… or movie train of thought even more. PoMo theory crap aside, for whatever reason this just hits me in a way that none of Time’s other nominations can…

• aListApart with a timely article on using forms sensibly
• OnGoing on the evils(?) of <!DOCTYPE> mark-up

Via Neil Gaiman: The 139 page PDF draft of Judge Jones’ ruling in Kitzmiller et al. vs. Dover Area School District et al.

This word substitution is telling, significant, and reveals that a purposeful change of words was effected without any corresponding change in content, which directly refutes FTE’s argument that by merely disregarding the words “creation” and “creationism,” FTE expressly rejected creationism in Pandas.

Landmark decision, if you ask me. Go PA! As Gaiman says: The “why this is not an activist decision by an activist judge” bit on page 137 is terrific, although you’re best off getting there the hard way, starting at page 1… Worth it, indeed.