August 2008
July 2008
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at...”
– Coco Chanel
WatchApathetic Youth
Laurie Andersn Interview →
If I had a message, I would write it down and e-mail it to everybody. I would save a lot of paint that way. My work is more about trying to create images through words and pictures. I want to evoke a reaction more than explain anything clearly. I don’t like things to be confused, but I like them to be multifaceted.
The Greywater Guerrillas →
The Greywater Guerrillas are a collaborative group of educators, designers, builders, and artists who educate and empower people to build sustainable water culture and infrastructure.
EZTV has introduced BitTorrent Video Streaming! →
Instead of having to wait for an entire TV Show to download fully before you can watch it, it is now possible to use BitTorrent to watch a TV Show as it downloads.
Unequal America →
When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, “I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.” But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United States.
WatchIs Iraq ready to explode?
Democracy Now →
Laurie Anderson talks about Homeland at the end of this broadcast. Excellent commentary throughout as usual.
“For decades, psychologists have described the “sleeper effect” — the idea that...”
– Mahzarin R. Banaji, “The Science of Satire,” in The Chronicle Review 54/31 (August 1, 2008), p. B13 (link), on what’s really wrong (from a cognitive psychologist’s perspective) with The New Yorker’s Obama cover. (via nbr)
The Dark Knight: Hollywood’s Terror Dream →
The moral is as old, and as conservative, as Hobbes: we can live in a wild, murderous wasteland or a lawless, authoritarian police state. It doesn’t matter which of these options the film presents as more appealing or fun; all that matters is that no other options—e.g., left-wing anarchism, participatory democracy, decentralized communism, democratic socialism etc.—present themselves.
The Comic Bardo Thodol →
Recently, a freind asserted that all religions are basically alike. Hmmm… How much is this Buddhist afterlife like the Christian?
Mundo Maya →
Great Mayan informatin site.
“To explain religion is therefore a fundamentally misguided enterprise. It is...”
– Maurice Bloch, “Why religion is nothing special but is central,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363/1499 (2008): 2055-2061, p. 2060 (DOI link, CiteULike). (via nbr)
Clifton Hicks - Lonesome Road
“This Administration has put forward a false choice between the liberties we...”
– Barack Obama before he voted for the FISA wire tapping and telecom amnesty bill.
After a 40-year moratorium, credible research for... →
The U.S. government threw everything but the kitchen sink at getting (certain) Americans to stop “turning on,” launching the drug war that eventually locked up millions of drug users. They handed down ridiculously disproportionate federal sentences to LSD makers that would have made Pablo Escobar commit suicide. But it wasn’t the “turning on” part that they feared,...
Senate approves warrantless wiretapping and telco... →
“The difference between a banjo and a harmonica? On a harmonica only every other...”
– Traditional sayiing.
