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Watchplsj:
Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women
Step four is brilliant.
Thx Glen!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
The Golden Filter (6)
Murmur (4)
Pantha du Prince (3)
Autechre (3)
Neil Young (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Song: That's Us/Wild Combination
Artist: Arthur...
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WatchLeaving Soon Meklit Hadero
Prepare for something new but familiar.
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UN report: World's biggest cities merging into... →
Trend towards ‘endless cities’ could significantly affect population and wealth in the next 50 years.
John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Monday 22 March
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The world’s mega-cities are merging to form vast “mega-regions” which may stretch hundreds of kilometres across countries and be home to more than 100 million people, according to a...
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High-speed rail plan to link China to Europe →
Excerpt:
Sydney Morning Herald
March 10, 2010
China is in negotiations with 17 countries to build a high-speed rail network to India and Europe with trains capable of running at more than 320 km/h within the next 10 years.
One network would run from London to Beijing and then to Singapore, according to Wang Mengshu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
My 2 Bits: The United...
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Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL →
Via: Threat Level
By Ryan Singel
March 24, 2010
excerpt:
Normally when a user visits a secure website, such as Bank of America, Gmail, PayPal or eBay, the browser examines the website’s certificate to verify its authenticity.
At a recent wiretapping convention however, security researcher Chris Soghoian discovered that a small company was marketing internet spying boxes to the feds...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Madlib (35)
Long Desert Cowboy (12)
Shlohmo (7)
Four Tet (7)
Bonobo (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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WatchCamille & Piers Faccini - One of these things first - A Take Away Show
by La Blogotheque@VIMEO
Song by Nick Drake
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WatchBicycle Advocates Go To Washington D.C.
Support your local bicycle community!
Via: Streetfilms
Watchclaytoncubitt:
Another new trailer for the upcoming David Simon HBO series Treme. This one shows more clips and dialog from the series. (via Gambit)
See also: Treme trailer 01
Also also: Treme teaser
The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social... →
Video Presentation of David Lyon’s (37 minutes)
The New Transparency makes visible the identities of individuals, workings of institutions and flows of information in ways never before seen. Surveillance, the social process underlying the New Transparency, is rapidly becoming the dominant organizing practice of our late modern world. Given growing computer-dependence and reliance on...
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Broken Homes
Tricky with Polly Jean Harvey Angels...
“The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.”
– Bruce Sterling
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Talkin iPhone vs. Google Phone
TIm Bray is a partisan, he works for Google, he also makes strong points in his criticism of Apples iPhone platform. Full disclosure, I own a first gen iPhone and use it all the time; I unhappy that Apple thinks they can control the entire application space on my phone. You may dislike Microsoft but they have never been so dictatorial are tight assed about controlling their platforms. Apple...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Madlib (14)
Sparklehorse + Fennesz (12)
Peter Bjorn and John (9)
Flying Lotus (8)
Sparklehorse (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Chris Hedges Interviewed in Pulse →
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Chris Hedges discusses war, death, morality and governments in PULSE - BERLIN
Do you believe in progress when it comes to historical processes surrounding conflict?
No. Progress doesn’t exist. Time is not linear; time is cyclical. Societies mature, degenerate, and die. That’s history. The whole concept of linear progress is a myth. It doesn’t exist. And it’s what is used to...
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Jesus Was a B Boy
Ben Mono mix by Jemeni Fabric...
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whitscott:
Radio campaign involving social...
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WatchTest Video Upload
Last August I was in Istanbul, this was a toy store in a market place.
