July 2010
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Jul 12th
Jul 12th
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June 2010
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“Whatever you possess possesses you in return. Everything that makes you into an...”
– Raoul Vaneigem, “The Revolution of Everyday Life”
Jun 24th
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"Journalists try to win the argument not by having... →
Jun 18th
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The Most Influential Sci-Fi Movie Never Made →
“Lucas, Spielberg, Ridley Scott, these guys didn’t create the worlds they presented to us. They hired these 5 artists to create those worlds for them.”
Jun 12th
May 2010
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The dawn of product-service systems →
“The product-service-system (or PSS) is a new term for an old idea: emphasizing access over ownership, it’s simply about sharing products among people, and recognizing that bright green systems are just as important as products. Since we already take part in them – video rentals, laundromats, libraries, gyms, and taxis being obvious examples – we only really talk about PSS with regard to things...
May 3rd
April 2010
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"The brain expects to see things and really just... →
Apr 3rd
March 2010
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Can Anyone Pacify the World's Number One... →
Throughout all the shooting and shouting, American commanders seemed strangely unaware that Marja might qualify as the world’s heroin capital — with hundreds of laboratories, reputedly hidden inside the area’s mud-brick houses, regularly processing the local poppy crop into high-grade heroin.  After all, the surrounding fields of Helmand Province produce a remarkable 40% of the...
Mar 30th
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TRON title sequence in the manner of Saul Bass.
Mar 27th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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What if the world as we know it today isn't the... →
“The idea that something new is possible is spreading.  Most favorably, it is giving rise to a new type: the cultural entrepreneur.”
Mar 16th
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Obama Appoints Edward Tufte to Recovery... →
Now the process by which the finance sector pulled off their historic scam will be documented in diagrams that are approachable, comprehensible, information dense, and gorgeous.
Mar 8th
February 2010
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Feb 10th
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"If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is,... →
Feb 6th
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January 2010
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Leonardo da Vinci's Resumé →
“Most Illustrious Lord, Having now sufficiently considered the specimens of all those who proclaim themselves skilled contrivers of instruments of war, and that the invention and operation of the said instruments are nothing different from those in common use: I shall endeavor, without prejudice to any one else, to explain myself to your Excellency, showing your Lordship my secret, and...
Jan 29th
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"Top Ten Good News Stories from the Muslim World... →
Jan 1st
December 2009
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Listen “Out on the Highway” - Kula Shaker...
Dec 9th
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Ambient time-lapse videos of the Alps, set to Beethoven
Dec 3rd
November 2009
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October 2009
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September 2009
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Iran Replaces the Dollar with the Euro →
You may recall what happened to another oil-rich Middle Eastern country shortly after they did the same thing…
Sep 24th
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Carl Jung and the The Holy Grail of the... →
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and...
Sep 23rd
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Sep 17th
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Surreal video of a tiny fisherman swept out to see and rescued by tiny men in a tiny helicopter. Filmed with time-lapse and tilt-shift photography. The song by Megan Washington is catchy, too!
Sep 17th
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Would you like this guy sticking needles in your...
BOISE, Idaho – When police officer Darryll Dowell is on patrol in the southwestern Idaho city of Nampa, he’ll pull up at a stoplight and usually start casing the vehicle. Nowadays, his eyes will also focus on the driver’s arms, as he tries to search for a plump, bouncy vein.”I was looking at people’s arms and hands, thinking, ‘I could draw from that,’”...
Sep 15th
August 2009
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Aug 23rd
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John Robb on Markets and Warfare
Our unregulated global marketplace is a fantastic conduit for warfare since it is… extremely complex (nobody understands it, least of all economists), tightly coupled (information travels at the speed, measured in milliseconds, of programmed trading), highly leveraged (perched precariously on a mountain of debt), and vast (two orders of magnitude larger than the global economy, aka...
Aug 22nd
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"Hate blogger" Hal Turner's lawyer says he was...
Looks like COINTELPRO never died. David Kravets reports in Wired: A notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges and lawmakers was secretly an FBI “agent provocateur” paid to disseminate right-wing rhetoric, his attorney said Wednesday. Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which...
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