December 2010
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Media surfaces: The Journey [on Vimeo]
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via vimeo.com
How design enriches experience.
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BREAKING THE SPELL An hour-long look at the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the anarchists (particularly those from Eugene) who traveled there to set a new precedent for militant confrontation. Rather than attempting to cover every situation at the WTO, Breaking the Spell has covers a few scenes film in depth. It is filmed in the thick of the action, including footage that aired nationally on 60...
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November 2010
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Addiction, he thought…. started out like magical pets, pocket monsters....
– Zero History (pg. 53)
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EPIC Releases Analysis on TSA Body Scanner Program... →
From The Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is making available to the public today the report EPIC prepared in January 2010 <.pdf>, following the release of documents from the DHS in an open government lawsuit. The analysis, based on the internal records obtained from the agency, reveals that the “device specifications, set out by the TSA, include the ability to store,...
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Obama’s Torture Problem - via: NYB →
From New York Review of Books by David Cole
Excellent review of recent events including Ex Presidents Bush’s admitting he ordered water boarding and other forms of torture. Below is the final paragraph.
It turns out that looking forward, not back, will never resolve the torture legacy. Until we own up to and provide a reckoning for the moral and criminal wrongs committed by officials...
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At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
– George Orwell
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The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against...
– Milan Kundera
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Good Copy Bad Copy
This is an hour long video and it is worth your time, find time today or tomorrow sometime soon to watch it all.
And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is...
– the missing portion of Tina Fey’s acceptance speech, which was snipped by PBS from last night’s broadcast of the Mark Twain Prize ceremony. (via washingtonpoststyle)
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BBC Radio4 Show on Seattle →
The program, Americana, gives a interesting and different perspective on my home town.
The British author Jonathan Raban presents the programme from Seattle.
He talks to Seattle’s former mayor, Greg Nickels, about the city’s tech and environment revolution.
A husband and wife team of loggers out in Washington State explain how the job’s changed since the days when...
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Aung San Suu Kyi's talks exclusively to the BBC →
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Jason Schwartzman Introduces The New Yorker iPad... →
sean808080:
Such a funny man….
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"There's a lot of preening babble about sacrifice... →
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