December 2010
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Lou Reed / This Magic Moment
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November 2010
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Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning... →
On November 19, 2010, Comcast informed Level 3 that, for the first time, it will demand a recurring fee from Level 3 to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’s customers who request such content. By taking this action, Comcast is effectively putting up a toll booth at the borders of its broadband Internet access network, enabling it to unilaterally decide how much to...
Al Qaeda's bold new strategy is all about using... →
Al Qaeda’s senior leaders had become motivators-in-chief of the global jihadi movement and in so doing, freed themselves from actually having to conduct real-world operations. A video release could now be just as damning to American credibility as an attack in the physical world, according to this new line of thinking. Leading al Qaeda thinkers had long seen that propaganda was useful...
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“Hillary Clinton says that the U.S. is taking “aggressive steps” to hold...”
– Jeremy Scahill
Glenn Greenwald is keeping a running list of all the lives lost from the WikiLeaks disclosures here. So far: 0.
Related must read: Simon Jenkins on why journalists should defend Wikileaks.
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WatchPolice Squad | Episode 1: A Dangerous Assignment (1982)
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Lie of the Tiger →
For all its laissez-faire rhetoric, the Reagan administration fought fire with fire, responding to Japan’s market-distorting industrial and trade policies with a firm hand. It quickly concluded a “voluntary export restraint” agreement under which Tokyo, threatened with protectionist congressional legislation, limited its auto exports to 1.68 million per year. In effect, this forced Japanese...
“All the shouting from you or from electric car purists on the left can’t distort...”
– Todd Lass, editor of Motor Trend, addressing Rush Limbaugh
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“This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our...”
– Oh, Sarah Palin, never change! (via mediaite)
Maybe that’s not a flub. Logically speaking, President Obama’s alignment with South Korea would dictate Republican support for North Korea.
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58% of Republicans and 56% of independents say... →
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Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine DuckDuckGo →
I like both of these companies. It makes me happy to see them working together.
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Body scanner makers doubled lobbying cash over 5... →
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The companies with multimillion-dollar contracts to supply American airports with body-scanning machines more than doubled their spending on lobbying in the past five years and hired several high-profile former government officials to advance their causes in Washington, government records show.
L-3 Communications, which has sold $39.7 million worth of the machines to...
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Lemon Candy
Me: Why do so many things that come out of our body smell bad? B.O., poop, pee, bad breath?
Him: Becasue it's waste.
Me: I know, but why can't they smell like lemon candy or something?
Him: Because then you would eat it again.
“Come on, dictionary. Shouldn’t the ‘Word Of The Year’ be better than Sarah...”
– Seth Meyers, brilliantly calling out the publishers of a certain dictionary for selecting that idiot’s “refudiate” as the Word of the Year, on Weekend Update
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WatchMr. Bungle rocking a Super Mario Brothers medley about 20 years before it was cool for bands to play video game music.
“One reason state-sponsored media often rank so high in response to specific...”
– Joshua E. Keating, asking if Google News helps spread propaganda
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“Looking further down the road, the only way to bring Britain, China, France, and...”
– James Traub, on the nuclear arms treaty
“Pick two countries that would like to see a failure of ratification (START...”
– Edward Luce, reporter for The Financial Times, during a recent appearance on ABC’s This Week.
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“They give you opinion polls on subjects you couldn’t possibly have any basis to...”
– Doug Stanhope, on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe.
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“Like many news-drenched Americans, I paid only casual attention to the standoff at Waco, Texas, between the Branch Davidians and two agencies of the federal government. I came away with the vague impression that the “cult,” as it was always styled, was a group of gun-toting crackpots, that they killed several U.S. agents, refused to negotiate and finally shot themselves and...
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