Specter

goldenfiddle: Silk Spectre and Silk Spectre II

Brokedown Palace (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

goldenfiddle : Silk Spectre and Silk Spectre II

The Depression Specter

The Hollywood Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

The Depression Specter Robert Samuelson, Newsweek

Specter Werkes C6 Corvette GTR: Radical Coachbuilt 535 HP Corvette Revealed In Detroit [Werkes]

Jalopnik (Free subscription) | yesterday

Yesterday evening we saw the Specter Werkes C6 Corvette GTR made its public debut here at Cauley Ferrari in West Blomfield, MI. It's rare to have the chance to cover a car from its earliest concept sketches , through the build process and all the way until its public unveiling. But yesterday evening we completed that cycle with the Specter Werkes' special Corvette. The GTR shares only...

“Spectre of the Gun” Remastered Review + Screenshots + Video [UPDATED]

Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Spectre of Zimbabwe Hangs Over EU-SA Summit

Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008

Johannesburg - South Africa and the European Union hold their first ever summit in the French city of Bordeaux on Friday, but divergent positions on ways of tackling the political crisis in Zimbabwe have cast a pall over the event. Africa's top economy and the EU, its biggest investor, want to take their relationship to a "new level" at the summit, attended by French President Nicolas Sarkozy - whose...

The Depression Specter

RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

WASHINGTON -- The specter of depression stalks America. You hear the word repeatedly. Are we in a depression? If not, are we headed for one? The answer to the first is "no"; and the answer to the second is "almost certainly not." The use of "depression" to describe the economy is a case of rhetorical overkill that speaks volumes about today's widespread pessimism and anxiety. A short history...

The spectre of Chinese unions is haunting Wal-Mart

Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you had to, would you rather work for Wal-Mart in Communist China or in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? Until this month, most people would have...

ADB Warns On Specter Of Inflation In Emerging Asia

Forbes (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

A report from the development bank says time is running out for governments in developing East Asia to make reforms such as currency flexibility to combat pressures of rising prices.

OLD SCHOOL SILK SPECTRE

The Vault of Buncheness (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Special thanks to Red Stapler for this one. As the countdown to the WATCHMEN movie ticks on I expect to see all manner of kooky stuff related to or inspired by the source graphic novel all over the internet, and here's a truly excellent and creative example of what I'm talking about: It's a portrait of Sally Jupiter — nee Sally Juspeczyk — aka the 1940's Silk Spectre, easily my favorite of the Minutemen-era...

The Brocken Spectre

Neatorama (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

A Brocken spectre is an apparently gigantic shadow cast in fog or mist, often surrounded by an aura. According to Wikipedia: The "spectre" appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist. The light projects the climber’s shadow forward through the mist, often in an [...]

US hot pursuit spectre haunts Pakistan

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Peshawar, July 20 (Reuters): Former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld may not have been shy about projecting US military power, but even he didn't dare send American troops into Pakistan's tribal lands to snatch or kill al Qaida leaders.

Janine di Giovanni: Spectres of Sarajevo

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

Janine di Giovanni: News of the arrest conjures memories of those dreadful days of death. Next, for Mladic

The spectre of stagflation: Things can only get worse

OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008

As the economic pain intensifies there will be a political price to pay FIVE years ago Mervyn King, the newly appointed governor of the Bank of England, gave warning that the “nice” decade would be followed by something less wholesome. Now starting his second term of office this month, Britain’s leading central banker looks more prescient [...]

Spectre Is Horror Fantasy

SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Fantasy author Phaedra Weldon told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, Spectre, required her to research secret societies, astral projection, urban and Jewish folklore and court cases that deal with missing body parts.

“Spectre of the Gun” Remastered Review

Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

... Factor,” “Turnabout Intruder,” regrettably, the list goes on), but I actually quite enjoy “Spectre of the Gun.” In fact, in the third season, which is filled with innumerable examples of Trek’s good, the bad and the extremely ugly, “Spectre of the Gun” is a standout. Like “Spock’s Brain,” the episode is stamped with Gene Coon’s pseudonym, Lee Cronin, a moniker he slapped on all his...