September 2010
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Newt Gingrich Launches Tea Party Campaign To Stop... →
kateoplis:
With the incendiary claim that the “Obama presidency is the greatest threat the American people have ever faced,” Gingrich has launched a massively funded effort to mobilize ten million conservative voters this November. In an online video promoting the “Power of 10” campaign by his American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) 527 group, Gingrich rails against the “genuinely...
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“When it comes to science, atheists and Baptists have remarkably similar...”
– Rachel Held Evans
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North Korean leadership passes the torch. Sorta. →
Kim Chong-il does not trust his youngest son to govern anything, which explains the regency troika.
The various appointments and elevation of an untested youth in this fashion has no precedent in recent North Korean history. The process looks poorly and hastily thought out in terms of competence and ability, but crafted to try to keep the Kim family in charge. It suggests that Kim Chong-il is...
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TomTom aims to reduce time spent in traffic jams... →
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“I am the “before” picture. I get that. I know that. I see that. I don’t wish to...”
– Ell
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WatchAnderson Cooper questions Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell about his repeated harassment of a gay student. This has been going on for five months and AG Mike Cox still hasn’t fired him.
via eversonpoe
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Oct. 3, the 20th anniversary of German unification, will also mark the completion of the final chapter of World War I with the end of reparations payments 92 years after the country’s defeat.
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kateoplis:
If you’re into the art of the video, come join ericmortensen and I on our newly launched video blog, imageoscillite. We promise to rock you.
If you like what you see, please help us deliver good stuff to the tumblrverse by recommending us. Thanks!
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“That self-critical element of the progressive mind is probably a healthy thing,...”
– Preisdent Obama
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“Chief of Staff is usually considered a pinnacle job rather than a stepping...”
– Josh Marshall
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Watchitsthemusic:
Jian Ghomeshi sits down with Neil Young and Daniel Lanois to discuss Young’s new record Le Noise.
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How We Censor Now
melissa:
THE AWL: Given the scale of a select few we’re potentially on the cusp of seeing that shifted over to telecom corporations. Essentially they’d have the power to silence the opposition. Is this going to be the defining moment… the Lady Chatterley’s Lover of this generation, so to speak?
Mike Edison: We talk about this all the time—the censorship you have to worry about isn’t this overt...
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imageoscillite:
Cult filmmaker, musician, photographer, and producer Chris Cunningham’s audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s New York Is Killing Me, which premiered last night across three screens at MoMA (watch in full screen)
via/ my friend, michaelragen
wow.
Read the Gil Scott-Heron profile in the 8/9/2010 New Yorker if you get a chance.
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“That is — that is like — that’s like the lowest response I...”
– Anderson Cooper, in response to Palin-backed North Carolina Republican House candidate Renee Ellmers.
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“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck. Mine is yum.”
– Tom Robbins (via still-searching)
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Newsdate 2011: The Grand Inquisitor
In this update of Dostoyevsky’s fable, the second coming has arrived in the form of a radical African-American messiah, and the Network/Church/Government is looking for a more acceptable replacement Jesus that they can rush into the marketplace to offset the disruptive influence of the false prophet.
Tony Torn directs, with mutli-image...
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WatchThis track is at least 11 years old. It was composed in Fast Tracker 2 and is a little off here, as playback was rendered in a different app. It’s a raw stream of consciousness based largely on themes from TV shows, including Bewitched, Taxi, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk and others. I vaguely remember doing this, although I do remember being happy about getting the Taxi and Bewitched...
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WatchI was on a panel yesterday at the New York Television Festival with Liz Shannon Miller (AKA lizlet), Yuri Baronovski, Grace Randolph and Paul Kontonis. I think I was mostly able to hold it together, despite not feeling at all well.
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DuckDuckGo Implements HTTPS Everywhere
When using the encrypted version of DuckDuckGo, you’ll now automatically stay encrypted as you visit any DDG links to Amazon, DDG, EFF, Facebook, Gentoo, Gmail, GMX, Google, Identi.ca, Ixquick, Live.com, Mail.com, Meebo, Microsoft, Mozilla, Noisebridge, NYTimes, PayPal, Scroogle, Tor, Twitter, WashingtonPost, Wikipedia, Wordpress and Zoho.
They’ve also built a hidden service for...
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Pat Tillman’s brother, Richard, talks about his brother’s funeral with Maher (43sec)
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“The video looks to me like it was staged.”
– Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who’s starting to suspect that this Stephen Colbert person might be acting.
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Watchjacobjoaquin:
A boutique instrument based on the Atari 2600 synth engine built with Processing and Csoundo. More details at The Csound Blog.
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The Connecticut-Country-Club Crackup
Onstage, a tableau of supporters carefully constructed for television in the way of modern campaigns — nonwhite faces up front, directly behind the candidate — stood assembled under a banner that read, blandly, “It’s Time for Something Different.” Just behind the lectern, alongside other family members, loomed [Linda] McMahon’s ponytailed, R.V.-size son-in-law, the wrestler known as Triple H....
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Saxby Chambliss says that allowing openly gay... →
via Tony Comstock
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Obama dismisses Iran War Prospects, overrules... →
seaofgreen:
The Obama administration is clearly trying to send signals to Iran during the General Assembly session of the United Nations that Washington is open to engagement and just wants Iran to be more transparent about its nuclear power research program:
“The door is open to them [Iran] having a better relationship with the United States and with the international community,” White...
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Yes. Saxby Chamblis is a hatemonger. But he's so...
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Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating an anti-choice voting record
Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating an anti-choice voting record
Rated 7% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record.
Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights voting record.
Rated 10% by CURE, indicating anti-rehabilitation crime votes.
Rated 100% by the Christian Coalition: indicating a general...
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Watchimageoscillite:
Laurie Anderson - O Superman
Every time I hear this song it inches closer to the top of my all-time favorites list.
Go deep with O Superman.
“Credit Suisse analyst Spencer Wang this morning downgraded his rating on the...”
– Thumbs Down To Entertainment Stocks, Credit Suisse Says - Tech Trader Daily - Barrons.com (via mikehudack)
The industry will be fine. I’m been told that there’s both a new 3D movie and a TV show about lawyers in the works.