January 2009
“Mr. Gregg’s selection could also open the door to a significant shift in the...”
– Obama Ready to Pick Republican Senator for Commerce Post - NYTimes.com
Clever. (via dlifson)
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Artist Name : The Upsetters
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Watchdalasverdugo:
charity: water promo featuring “Time Bomb” by Beck (via Vimeo)
More on Seattle P.I. Closing →
From Crosscut.com A NorthWest U.S. Regional Online News Site This is excerpted from the article:
Second, newspaper advertisers will need a more attractive venue, since hardly anyone likes the ads that now pop up on news websites. Hearst says it will start offering advertisers a more attractive wireless e-paper alternative this year. The e-paper, based on a technology known as E Ink, which is...
Artist Name : Matthew Herber
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The Game Changer .. By George Soros →
Mr. Soros weighs in on the Crisis and what he thinks Obama should do
Published: January 28 2009 registration may be required :
Excerpt:
Now that the bankruptcy of Lehman has had the same shock effect on the behaviour of consumers and businesses as the bank failures of the 1930s, the problems facing the administration of President Barack Obama are even greater than those that...
Anton Chekhov Birthday
Today is Chekhov Birthday.
The beginning of The Cook’s Wedding……
GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose,...
“Years ago, reporters for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting this week,...”
– Link to the Seattle P.I. Story.
Side Note: The Seattle P.I is up for sale, there are no potential buyers and the paper could be closed as early as this Spring. This would leave Seattle with one daily news paper. Who will be reporting these stories in the future? Thom Hartmann (via azspot) (via...
Florian Keller Mixtape - Partykeller Style! [36...
Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters
feinsodville:
In Maureen Dowd’s latest column, she essentially winds up by calling for criminal prosecution of the Wall Street scumbags who caused the current financial crisis. Before that, she simply goes to town describing their idiocy, greed and cluelessness, with a particular emphasis on John Thain, the former CEO of Merrill Lynch.
In an interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC, Thain used...
MADAGASCAR: Widespread looting plagues capital... →
Madagascar is not just a beautiful DreamWorks fantasy, my friend KDFA come from there and he is worried about the safety of friends and family. This story offers some background about the current situation and Andry Rajoelina the DJ entrepreneur who was elected Mayor of the capitol city Antananarivo as an Independent. Rajoelina owns a TV and Radio station and is a harsh critic of the National...
The White House on Vimeo →
dalasverdugo:
Big ups to Blake for working with the White House staff to handle all the legalities.
ALIENATION, DELAYED! HERE COMES CLOUD COMPUTING →
Excellent commentary on the nature of alienation and cloud computing.
Via: BradFidler
Offshore wind could power every home in the UK by... →
(via unburyingthelead)
“Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our...”
– John Le Carre (via enquotations)
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them...”
– Andy Warhol
Via: MusicThoughts & 6ft5
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Police set to step up hacking of home PCs →
Times Online UK
The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
Via: Documentaly
homeofthevain:
Can, She Brings the Rain...
Watchmatthewb:
Job Interview, directed by and starring Ben Schwartz. I’m a sucker for Robocop and The Terminator references. A couple of his other shorts feature the acting talents of Sarah Burns, of Flight of the Conchords fame. (via Blake Whitman)
Artist Name : Rhythm & Sound
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Time Travel
cromarama:
“We do not move in one direction, rather do we wander back and forth, turning now this way and now that. We go back on our own tracks …’ That thought of Montaigne’s reminds me about something I thought of in connection with flying saucers, humanoids, and the remains of unbelievably advanced technology found in some ancient ruins. They write about aliens, but I think that in these...
“Just what is hip has become nebulous in a digital age of microtrends, when a...”
– -Christian M. Chensvold, 07-20-05 (via retropolitics) (via unburyingthelead)
“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”
– Tony Benn
WatchDiscussing “Suspended Space” : a form of Transcendental Christian Worship
Peter Rollins is co-ordinator of the experimental Belfast-based collective Ikon (www.ikon.org.uk)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Gui Boratto (13)
School of Seven Bells (13)
Bonobo (7)
4 th STREET ORCHESTRA (7)
El Remolon (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The word is now a virus
The word is now a virus. The flu virus may once have been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the lungs. The word may once have been a healthy neural cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting your sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner...
WatchTurkish Video artist, Suna Ciftci.
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Revolution, Facebook-Style →
NY Times article:
By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO
Published: January 22, 2009
Concerns Arab reaction to Gaza incursion and the role of the Internet, focus on Egypt.
As the street protests went on, young Egyptians also were mobilizing and venting their anger over Gaza on what would, until recently, have seemed an unlikely venue: Facebook, the social-networking site. In most countries in the Arab...
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James Lovelock in New Scientist
Discussing human attempts to effect climate change and the disasters that await us all in the 21st Century There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal. It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste - which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering - into non-biodegradable charcoal, and burying it in the soil....
Via: astroinquiry:
Bonobo | Everything You Do Is...