February 2011
71 posts
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“The company attracted millions of dollars from Google Ventures and from...”
– Mubarak’s Going to Saudi Arabia, CIA-Funded Forecasters Say | Danger Room | Wired.com
“In-Q-Tel”? That can’t be serious. Or maybe it is. It sounds like a fast food chain. (Fact-check-a?)
January 2011
91 posts
In April 1942, just a few months after Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt asked Congress to enact a 100 percent top federal income tax rate, in effect a “maximum wage.” No individual, FDR told lawmakers, should be taking home, after taxes, over $25,000 — the equivalent of about $335,000 today.
FDR’s call for a $25,000 personal income limit struck millions of patriotic Americans as right on the...
Takuma Nakahira, For a language to come
oneyearofbooks:
Published 2010 by Osiris, Santa Claus brought Pierre this book.
This is a reprint of the very famous 1970 book.
Claustrophobia, Hiroshima, pessimism
Oooh.
“Bulletstorm is not a statement so much as a set of parenthesis within which you...”
– Penny Arcade - Topical Gaming Strip
“The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is turning his attention back to TV...”
– Sorkin Returns To TV With News Drama
Wow, Aaron Sorkin is going to make a behind-the-scenes-at-a-tv-show show? That’s unprecedented! Oh, wait…
I love Aaron Sorkin’s tv work, with a passion, but the man is in serious need of a new subject. How about a Sorkin-penned Perfect...
“You know also, of course, about the little warts of so-called ‘proud...”
– So you’ve chopped off your hand…now what?
Oddly, it looks like nobody in the comments thread mentions L’Engle’s Arm of the Starfish, which is totally about this shit. (Also, one of my favorite L’Engle books.)
I’d mention it, but I’m still banned for...
“Stephens notes that the other two founding broads of libertarianism - Rose...”
– Reason responds to Ayn Rand going on the dole - Boing Boing
“Noted speed freak, serial-killer fangirl, and Tea Party hero Ayn Rand was also a...”
– Ayn Rand took government assistance while decrying others who did the same - Boing Boing
Oh, that wacky Ayn Rand.
“The trouble, as Madrigal points out, is that—unlike other educational sources,...”
– The Geopolitics of “Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego?” - Boing Boing
“Sacred Terrain” features the black & white photography of Cathy Shine, illuminated by the plasma sculpture of Ed Kirshner. Tonight’s opening party also features improvised music by Cornelius Boots and Freddi Price, and free psychic readings by Virginia.
About the artist’s works:
Cathy Shine’s prints are hand-prepared photographs of forgotten scenes and now historical memories...
Why I love The League
Andre: “I met this doctor, Dr. Maxwell. Real class act.”
Pete: “Is he black?”
Andre: “How’d you know?”
Pete: “Nine times out of ten, when a sportscaster is referring to someone as a ‘class act’, they’re talking about a head coach who’s black.”…
Andre: “I never noticed that; I mean — that happens...
“The part where I don’t agree is the “pre-teen boys” fragment....”
– Gamasutra - News - Opinion: Video Game Ethics And The Coming Bulletstorm Via Sexy Videogameland
It’s really pretty hard to get a line on Bulletstorm. I’ve been pretty excited about the game ever since I saw the absolutely hilarious videos in which the soft-voiced, articulate female...
“Remember Younger Bear, the Contrary warrior in Little Big Man who rides his...”
– The Online Photographer: The Single Use Device
What Mike goes on to describe is not really contrarian, although it is antiquarian. Which, given the current enthusiasm for alternative processes, is more in line with popular interests than Mike seems to think.
That being said, I think view cameras...
“While we figure that giant, tread-wielding wheelchairs have no trouble selling...”
– TankChair deemed too heavy to use on UK streets, disabled man becomes marketing boon (video) — Engadget
All I can see is the start of the best Johnny 5 halloween costume ever.
“The remaining site, WordPress.org, is the only site in the first ten Google...”
– Top WordPress themes on Google riddled with spamlinks and obfuscated code - Boing Boing
“My art professor used to always tell us that “perspective is a disease of the...”
– Disease of the eye | n j w v
“Woe, to be a scuba-diving documentary filmmaker during North Atlantic Right...”
– What does a ménage à trois between whales look like?
Interesting article, interesting sentence. Appears to be a combination of the mutually contradictory “woe be to x” and “Oh, to be a x,” the latter probably arising from the “fly on the wall” aspect of...
“In an interview with The Observer, Meffre states that, “As Europeans, we...”
– Left Behind: The Ruins of Detroit :: Etsy Blog
One more quick thought on that:
This quotation makes me rather stabby. It also makes me think of Robert Frank, another European outsider viewing America, and it makes me think: first time as tragedy, second time as farce. How can anyone take such an...
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“When I first saw How to Hunt by Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt, on the...”
– Conscientious | Review: How To Hunt by Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt
Honestly, I can only assume the majority of huge photographic prints exist entirely because of a market driven entirely by collectors with huge walls and wallets and tiny dicks.
An online sportswriter tracks down an internet troll who called him an “f—ing retard.” On the phone, meek and apologetic, the troll says, “You know what? I enjoy your writing. But I disagreed with you and I got caught up in the moment. When you read something you think is bull——, you’re gonna respond passionately. Was I appropriate? No. Am I proud? Not...
“Such a capability was demonstrated a few years ago by the U.S. Air Force, which...”
– U.S. Navy Identifies Network Invasion Tool | AVIATION WEEK Via Danger Room.
“Hotz, who also cracked the iPhone, blogged that he’s keen to get a Windows...”
– Microsoft Offers PS3 Hacker A Present
You (should) know your company has an image problem when Microsoft can make you look stodgy and repressive.
Also: “Hotz” is a great fucking surname.
Secret tumblr message to every photography blogger
We already know about Vivian Maier.
“San Antonio police officer Craig Nash raped a woman while on duty. He faced a...”
– On-duty cop rapes woman, pleads sentence down to one year - Boing Boing
Ugh.
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army’s deputy chief of staff and its point person on suicide prevention, told reporters at the Pentagon that there were 343 suicides amongst active and reserve soldiers, Army civilians and family members last year. The number of active-duty suicides in 2010, 156, declined by 6 from 2009, indicating what Chiarelli called the “modest success” of Army suicide-prevention...
Quite belatedly, I came to see that mass incarceration in the United States has, in fact, emerged as a comprehensive and well-disguised system of racialized social control that functions in a manner strikingly similar to Jim Crow….
There are more African Americans under correctional control today — in prison or jail, on probation or parole — than were enslaved in 1850, a...
“It was back in a disgusting time known as The Early 80’s. It was a time...”
– Lois Griffin
“In order to be eligible for the funds, city employees will have had to...”
– Berkeley may pay for sex-change surgeries | Berkeleyside
This seems like a good thing, but I shudder to think at how a bureaucracy is going to handle the processing of validating these claims. Especially in the event of competition for the funding.
it’s clear to us that enjoying Hulu is about more than any one show. It’s also about how your favorite shows relate to the rest of what is going on in pop culture.
Part of the fun is connecting the dots … TV, movies, web video, Twitter … what’s hot, what’s trending, and what‘s over. Lately, our users have been asking us for a quick and fun way to stay current on the latest in pop culture....
“I find it obsequious and cloying to hear the radio show hosts and politicians...”
– (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: An Immodest Proposal ~ Thank Some Non-Veteran for Their Service
An interesting post. Do read it.
I don’t disagree in principle with the idea that people who accept risk or deprivation for the betterment of humanity deserve more recognition...
Outcasts
http://io9.com/5735785/first-ever-trailer-for-bbcs-post+apocalyptic-series-outcasts
I’ll give any sci-fi/fantasy tv property a try, and I won’t even see this one looks unpromising. But if it becomes popular, brace yourselves for me regularly yammering, at length, about its relationship to Earth 2.
“Most of all, he’ll need to keep to a tight schedule. The rate of...”
– The first mammoth cloning experiment is officially underway
One more thing, not necessarily related to the last post. It’s something I tend to discuss sooner or later with all my left wing atheist acquaintances (assuming that we wind up discussing politics and religion, which we usually do). It’s this:
The civil rights movement in the US was a largely religious movement. And this was not coincidental; it could not possibly have proceeded as a...
I’ve seen some comments today on tumblr and twitter that celebrate the progress we’ve made on racism in America. There’s nothing wrong with celebrating victories, but it’s important to remember that racism isn’t precisely a thing of the past. We still have quite a lot of overt, aggressive, violent racism running around in this country.
We also have an incredible...
“Documentary shooting only goes so far and only means something when everything...”
– Bird in the Hand | n j w v
“According to this unsourced report, the Belarusian mobile operators have...”
– Report: Belarusian mobile operators gave police list of demonstrators - Boing Boing
