The Italian magazine L'Espresso, one of the newest additions to the WikiLeaks list of media publishers, has partnered with Colors, magazine for the Italian fashion house Benetton, to celebrate the anniversary of their 80th issue with a special comics edition dedicated to modern heroes of which Assange takes prime spot. The edition in fact presents his life through the arts of comics.
Is this the sign that Assange is breaking all conventions and is becoming a pop culture phenomenon? It might be. My hope is that people, or at least most people, will still see him for what he's trying to achieve and not for being the WikiLeaks 'rapist' guy.
Let's enjoy some nice Assange videogame. After a long day at work there's nothing better than some geeky, subversive, anti-establishment videogame enjoyment. The soundtrack is not bad either.
Kashmir Hill at Forbes has written a fresh article regaling the world with the video the Iceland-based American DJ Seth Sharp took at a Reykjavik club he was DJ'ing at and at which Julian Assange happened to be. This was at the time of the Collateral Murder video operation.
Needless to say, hordes of media have picked up the news with varied results - from the matter-of-fact to the ridiculously dull and petty - and Assange fanciers have got even bigger fanciers. After all, it's very good to see his more private and 'normal' side.
While Daniel Domscheit-Berg had previously described Assange's dancing style in unfavourable terms - his nickname during these dance sorties was Disco King, due to his 'tribesman-like' moves - what we see is actually better than we were made to believe. Ah, very bad of you, Domscheit-Berg.
Apparently Assange can actually dance hence yet probably another proof that Domscheit-Berg is telling tall tales. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, on the other hand, can be seen in the video sitting at the bar looking miserable and in all likelihood taking mental notes of yet something silly to use for his literary masterpiece Inside WikiLeaks. Assange, the man the media can't live without. Domscheit-Berg, the man the media are squeezing in the hope to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Asus had the great idea of wanting to target 'cool' nerds - depicted in and fans of The Big Bang Theory -with their 'hilarious' The Eee Pad Story (insert fake Sheldon chuckle here). The results, needless to say, are beyond dismal. As Sheldon Cooper would say 'Ah! The horror!'. Judge for yourself.
You surely need to recover your energies after this so here it is one of my favourite bits from the show (by the way my favourite one):
