August 2010
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“NorthWest Bank and Trust is the 104th FDIC-insured institution to fail in the...”
– FDIC Press Release PR-2010
July 2010
“Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the...”
– Alvin Greene, the Democratic Senate nominee for South Carolina, on his ideas for spurring job creation in the state. (via officialssay)
Watch5btv:
The Brooklyn Grange: NYC’s Newest & Biggest Rooftop Farm
It’s summer harvest season up on NYC’s newest and biggest rooftop farm! If you haven’t been, and I know most of you haven’t, you need to see The Brooklyn Grange. I visited a few days ago to see what Farmer Ben Flanner was growing for the summer, and I was quite impressed with the progress he’s made in such a short amount of time....
Watchtodayonbliptv:
Jay Rosen and Michael Otterman discuss WikiLeaks on this episode of GRITtv with Laura Flanders.
Very thoughtful.
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Suzanne Vega - Lolita
from Nine Objects of...
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“But despite the promising blurb — Drawing on the lessons of Camus and...”
– Joshua Keating
\via FP Passport
Watchdapperapps:
Tired of having a phone that fits in your pocket? AppJudgment takes a look at the first 5” Android device: the Dell Streak.
“I’m acutely aware that this image will be seen by children, who will undoubtedly...”
– Time managing editor Richard Stengel, on his decision to put a photo of an Afghan woman who was mutilated by the Taliban on the cover of the magazine
\via New York Mag via soupsoup via mikehudack
“Today, the House passed legislation reducing the two-decades-old sentencing...”
– Congress Passes Historic Legislation to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sentencing Disparity (via tedr via mikehudack)
The compromise also eliminated the five year mandatory minimum sentence for simple possession of five grams of cocaine (about two sugar packets worth). The repeal of that mandatory...
It's like deja-vu all over again
rainblog:
Remember the Google Buzz fiasco? In their eagerness to roll out their latest whizz-bang new killer feature (by the way, does anyone still use Buzz?), Google didn’t bother to think about - or deliberately chose to ignore - the potential privacy implications of their model and ended up exposing everyone’s contacts. A predictable outcry followed, and Google was forced to walk it all back...
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The beer industry lobby (AKA Anheuser-Busch InBev... →
They get what they pay for and the microbrewers get screwed.
"Universal DRM" renamed UltraViolet, beta starts... →
marco:
A large number of video-content publishers and video-device manufacturers are coordinating a common DRM scheme:
The idea behind DECE is the same idea behind the push to drop DRM, except that DECE would preserve the DRM part. Both sides want users to be able to use their content on more devices and be more flexible with where and when things can be watched; DECE would merely employ a DRM...
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Hey America - we just spent $434,000 on a virtual... →
(via rkb)
“Yesterday iPad had four erotica novellas listed in its top ten selling books...”
– Discriminating Against Erotica | RT Book Reviews (via sarahmaclean)
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Time to come clean...
catalogliving:
Gary has no idea what exactly Elaine does in the shower every day, but he certainly knows better than to touch her wooden shower spoon or shower branch.
“Furthermore, nobody in the free culture movement is attempting to silence the...”
– Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons Blog. ASCAP President’s Letter.
I still don’t understand how he can so fundamentally misunderstand what the whole thing is about. Does money rot your brain?
(via jonprins)
WTF is he talking about? This is willful deception:
“Our members have every right...
“Structure is the ribcage, character is the muscle, but CGI is just a nice...”
– (via stephenmarsh)
I have sympathy for "the man"
mikehudack:
Eric Spiegelman: wikileaks is making me feel old Mike Hudack: haha Eric Spiegelman: I have sympathy for “the man” Eric Spiegelman: wikileaks is an asshole Mike Hudack: serious Mike Hudack: yeah Mike Hudack: me too
Wikileaks is needed. It’s an extreme response to the extreme ineffectiveness of the existing news media, which has a disturbingly cozy relationship...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Bongwater (79)
Basement Jaxx (15)
Electronicat (6)
Ween (4)
Midnight Juggernauts (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We carry on in the most bizarre ways in far-off lands and think nothing of it. ...”
– Tom Engelhardt
“Must bodies and sexual desire be “normalized”? These recent medical...”
– Elizabeth Reis | Sex, Intersex, and the Making of “Normal” | History News Network
“In the same way that medical records are available only to people with a...”
– Privacy and Your Credit Score | Mother Jones (via shorterexcerpts)