March 2010
February 2010
“Watching [Eric] Schmidt rejoice at Google’s new business model should cause us...”
– Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters (via azspot)
“O generation of the thoroughly smug
and thoroughly uncomfortable,
I...”
– ezra pound / salutation (via rhea137)
Now on Hulu: Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent →
poortaste:
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
“I threw families on to the street in Iraq only to come home and see families...”
– Mike Prsyner (via adamquinn) (via bradicalmang)
“Stop being so anger-averse and stop making fun of those pissed-off...”
– Paul Street (via adamquinn) (via jhnbrssndn)
uncertaintimes:
findout:
teapotify:
Ahmad...
All of Peter Watts' Writing Released Under...
I’ve been posting some links and shots of Peter Watts series of scifi books with great enthusiasm. I’ve bought and am reading through three of them (Blindsight, Starfish, & Maelstrom). Now I find that the author is so cool that he’s released all of his writing on his web site under a Creative Commons License and made them available for download. If you take advantage of this...
Family Exchange
Father: Hey, check out this
Brother: Dad, that's a picture of a naked woman.
Father: Well, if you don't like that, try this then.
Sister: Almost opened that at work. Should know better.
Father: Shit, raised a bunch of kids who hate ART.
Sister: lol. Work doesn't like art.
This dialog was posted by my middle daughter. It's an e-mail conversation among me, her younger brother & her older sister.
The Elvis Costello Home Page →
underpaidgenius:
ontheroad:
hypo-murmur:
COSTELLO’S 500
From Abba to Zamballarana, and from Mozart to Eminem, one of rock’s finest talents has identified 500 albums essential to a happy life. It was a long, tortuous undertaking, but the man knows music - and his aim is true
BY ELVIS COSTELLO
This is great fun! My wife immediately remarked:...
“If you think it’s a socialist plot, then please drop out of the federal...”
– Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL), to Republican lawmakers at today’s health care reform summit (via think4yourself) (via apsies) (via navigolucky) (via underpaidgenius)
“THE MOIST MANIFESTO
MOIST SPACE is where dry pixels and wet molecules converge...”
– BIOMEDIALE (via spaceweaver) (via wildcat2030)
Ultimate high tech, high touch.
Underpaid Genius: The Republicans Believe We... →
The true difference between Republicans and Democrats is metaphysics. The GOP believes if you draw a bad hand in the game of life it is because you are bad, so tough luck. Democrats believe if you draw the short stick, it’s just bad luck, and we should step in to make it as good as we can.
And as…
Of course, the flip side is that the rich deserve to be rich because they’re being...
loopier:
“If there is one thing I’ve learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength.”
- John Welwood
Via...
Watchbradicalmang:
As Obama Pushes “Clean Coal,” Jeff Biggers Tracks History of Destructive Mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”
On the heels of President Obama’s major initiative to develop so-called clean coal technology, the journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers explores the myth of clean coal in a new book on the secret history of coal mining...
“We are entering a new era in the history of American life. Never in our history...”
– The Disputed Truth (via azspot)
WatchLOG From BLAMMO!
WatchLOG by BAMMO! A toy ad that ran before the first episode of Ren and Stimpy. Posted for no apparent reason.
