These are Cobun’s Tumbls … the only scratch and sniff weblog on Earth. Try it:Tumblr (3.0; @cobun)http://cobun.tumblr.com/“<p>Yesterday I wrote a note, with the subject line ‘tomorrow is a great day perhaps tomorrow I’ll be killed.’ I’m here to let you know I’m alive but my sister was killed …</p> <p>I’m here to tell you my sister died while in her father’s hands.<br/> I’m here to tell you my sister had big dreams …<br/> I’m here to tell you my sister who died was a decent person … and like me yearned for a day when her hair would be swept by the wind … and like me read Forough … and longed to live free and equal … and she longed to hold her head up and announce, ‘I’m Iranian’ … and she longed to one day fall in love with a man with shaggy hair … and she longed for a daughter that she could braid her hair and sing lullabies by her crib …</p> <p>My sister died from not having life …<br/> My sister died as injustice has no end … <br/> My sister died because she loved life too much …<br/> And my sister died because she lovingly cared for people …</p> <p>My loving sister, I wish you had closed your eyes when your time had come … the very end of your last glance burns my soul… .</p> <p>Sister have a short sleep. Your last dream be sweet.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em>An Iranian woman grieves for Neda, the girl gunned down in front of the eyes of the world yesterday.</em>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/127513184http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/127513184Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:06:00 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg6kvts5sr4htAuk7_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28882980http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28882980Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:44:05 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg6knxipyEY8k1nlp_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>The red line represents the number of searches for Obama, the blue represents the same for Clinton.  I don’t particularly like the trajectory of those lines. via <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=%22Hillary+Clinton%22,+%22Barack+Obama%22&date=ytd&geo=US&graph=weekly_img&ctab=1&sa=N"><a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a> </a></p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28870364http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28870364Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:03:05 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg6km2bcowa8ZvIBN_100.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I do not like her, Sam I am.  I would not like her in a boat.  I would not like her with a goat.  I do not like this thing she <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh/keith-olbermann-is-no-edw_b_91351.html#postComment" title="wrote">wrote</a>. </p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28866976http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/28866976Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:10:45 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg4luorvd1oQepofT_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/24608701http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/24608701Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:41:03 -0700<a href="http://www.forbes.com/business/2007/11/15/billionaires-mittal-hariri-biz-cx_1115heiresses.html?feed=rss_popstories">The 20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses - Forbes.com</a>: <p>It just goes to show …</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23135851http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23135851Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:30:23 -0700<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/05/passenger-planes-at-jfk-to-be-outfitted-with-anti-missile-system/">Passenger planes at JFK to be outfitted with anti-missile systems - Engadget</a>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23086641http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23086641Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:31:55 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg3ue4pghH28qWGAa_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Romney: “I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”</p><p>Well, figuratively.</p><p>Actually, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/mitticisms-martin-luthe_b_77711.html" title="no">no</a>. </p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23081502http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23081502Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:27:00 -0700now<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg3udulbb9HBCOcyx_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Please be careful.  It is easy to hit your head on this sign.  This sign has been placed here in order to warn you about hitting your head on this sign. </p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23081181http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23081181Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:19:53 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/vYItmhJHS3pr96vq0s80vQmd_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m gonna’ go print up my own batch of <a href="http://biphenyl.org/blog/2008/01/01/citation-needed/">citation needed</a> stickers … <a href="http://blissfork.tumblr.com/"></a></p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23079715http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/23079715Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:42:42 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg2os6zmjpFQ2tJXs_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Can someone please explain this to me? </p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/21066751http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/21066751Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:35:07 -0700<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000796XXM/downandoutint-20">Amazon Sells Uranium Ore</a>: <p>Read the comments for some very inspired radioctive comedy …</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20629678http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20629678Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:31:03 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg2d2v09jgcd555k3_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>This is why I read <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/images/2007/12/03/cartoons/071203_cartoon_9_a12775_p465.gif">The New Yorker</a> … </p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20473353http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20473353Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:00:36 -0700<a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-12/ff_futurama">'Futurama' Is Back! Grab a Can of Slurm and Settle In</a>: <p>Yay!</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20311443http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20311443Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:04:07 -0700<a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2007/11/15/facebook-changes-the-norms-for-web-purchasing-and-privacy/">Facebook changes the norms for web purchasing and privacy</a>: <p>Facebook is watching you …</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20233066http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20233066Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:07:37 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg26sdtqx6qeeVUXX_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Out for a frigid morning bike ride …</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20151125http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20151125Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:20:36 -0700<a href="http://www.kullin.net/2007/11/flickrs-second-billion-took-three.html">Flickr's second billion took three months</a>: <p>Wow … soon we’ll be at a billion pictures a day.</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20132416http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20132416Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:48:20 -0700<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/24/researchers-developing-advanced-electronic-nose/">Researchers developing advanced electronic nose</a>: <p>Can you say smelloscope?</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20126193http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20126193Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:59:40 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/OKKV54sUg23n3ayk4V8kiweo_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Marc Johns is great.  Don’t you ever feel like this?<a href="http://static0.jadedpixel.com/s/files/1/0000/1765/products/time_for_a_trim_large.jpg"></a></p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20024706http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/20024706Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:29:11 -0700<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071119/full/news.2007.268.html">Jade and language travelled together</a>: <p>What do you know?  Jade and language travel(l)ed together … this is interesting to people who are interested in such things.</p>http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/19995376http://cobun.tumblr.com/post/19995376Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:34:21 -0700