January 2010
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Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time →
Joseph Menn and Barrett Lyon Interview Listen to the authors of Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet, in a radio interview from Fresh Air recorded January 26, 2010 (30 minutes).
They discuss cyber attacks, on the criminal, governmental and terrorist level. They are very worried about the future of the Internet.
A Quick Note on Haiti
poplifereadings:
One illusion that the technology of motion pictures dissolved was the passivity of the plant kingdom. With time-lapse, the stillness was shattered and leaves, roots, flowers, branches, rotting came to life. This thriving and dying activity was the truth, and the passivity was revealed to be the untruth. Now if we could do something like a time-lapse on the kingdom of the...
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Giant UFOs around the Sun? NASA claims... →
From: Spokane Examiner
By Alfred Lambremont Webre
January 27, 2010
NASA’s Stereo spacecraft monitoring the Sun began registering huge spherical UFO’s in the vicinity of the Sun around January 18, 2010. According to one observer, the UFOs “appear to be moving as they are in different positions on many [of the NASA Stereo] photos, and are huge possibly at least the size of Earth. If the UFOs...
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Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970 reprinted in Voices of a People’s History of the United States
The spine of my copy of Voices is broken at this page (484), because this passage informs everything I do, everything I teach,...
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Make Corporations Full Citizens?
dissemination:
A reasonable demand for the rights and obligations of corporate Americans
Via: After the American Century
Blogger David E. Nye extends the recent Supreme Court decision to it’s logical conclusion.
Via: Dissemination
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Fennesz (13)
Horchata (9)
The xx (6)
Sufjan Stevens (5)
Air (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Change CongressVia: BUFFLEHEAD CABIN
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ONWARD TO A HOLLOW STATE →
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The United States continues to move toward the hollow state scenario, the opening of the corporate flood gates by the Supreme Court in election financing continues the process of making citizen voices weaker and weaker by comparison. How can a politician not consider the Billion $ Steam Rollers and what they want, if they don’t follow the Corporate Masters recommendation, those deep...
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This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done.
– Steve Jobs, talking about the tablet rumored to be introduced this week, as reported by TechCrunch (via davidkaneda)
Wow the hype machine is at a “full tilt boogie”
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The Tips of Your Fingers →
azspot:
Individualism, identity, and the state’s assault on public life
BY JAY GRIFFITHS
Orion Magazine
Published in the January/February 2010 issue
A Long article about privacy, public life, State Surveillance and Corporate Intrusion. If these issues concern you this is a must read.
Via Azspot …thnx
Haiti's elite hold nation's future in their hands... →
rosasparks:
(via bonesarecoralmade)
Thanks Nikola
homeofthevain:
Tsparks asked “Do you still photograph the party scene for media outlets (sites or magazines)? Would you ever share your secrets for taking great event photos?”
I don’t — I pretty much stopped doing it two years ago, for reasons mentioned earlier, posted a bitchy goodbye on my nightlife site, and burned a few bridges just to make sure I’m not too tempted to go back to it.
As for...
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