Shahryar Rizvi’s blog
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links for 2010-07-31
Amusing Ourselves to Death What Orwell feared was those who would ban books… What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who would want to read one. (tags: comics culture media politics books book) Bob Cesca: The GOP Plot to Screw the Economy […]
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The Problem With… Nicki Minaj’s “Your Love” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night
The Problem With… Nicki Minaj’s “Your Love” – Dallas Music – DC9 At Night.
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links for 2010-07-27
Hey Rothkopf, Pakistan Doesn’t Want Your Tea Party (tags: desi politics race culture) Note about Ground Zero Mosque: Stop Calling It That (tags: culture religion politics) Mona Eltahawy Blog » Archives » From liberals and feminists, unsettling silence on rending the Muslim veil The French parliament’s vote this week to ban full-length veils in public […]
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links for 2010-07-26
EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos (tags: law internet culture media technology) The War Logs – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com (tags: journalism war politics toread) Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk (tags: history journalism politics toread war) The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak Note how […]
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Comicon 2010: Avengers film news
Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams talk The Avengers, Super 8, The Cabin In The Woods, and Dr. Horrible 2 | Film | Newswire | The A.V. Club.
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links for 2010-07-25
Star Wars: Daily Star Apologises To Rockstar … last week the Daily Star ran an absolutely ridiculous story in which they claimed that Rockstar were to release Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury, based on the events of Raoul Moat, the murder he committed, and his run from the (tags: media law games)
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Comic on 2010 ‘Burn Notice’ Prequel Movie
Bruce Campbell to Star in ‘Burn Notice’ Prequel Movie. If your one of the thousand who ask “What is Burn Notice?”, the show is about a blacklisted spy who is exiled in Miami and does odd tasks each episode while investigating who blacklisted him and why. Joining him is Fi an Irish old flame who […]
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The Problem With… Maroon 5’s “Misery”
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2010/07/the_problem_withmaroon_5s_mise.php
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links for 2010-07-22
AFP: US Senate passes 'libel tourism' bill Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, charged that libel judgments in foreign courts were "undermining" freedom of speech and of the press and "chilling" open debate in the United States. "While we cannot legislate changes to foreign law that are chilling protected speech in our country, […]
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Comicon 2010: News of World War Z
Let me put something out there at first, I loathe most recent cultural narratives about zombies and pity my hipster peers who cite The Zombie Survival Guide as a favorite book. Much of the cultural prestige of a zombie invasion is predicated on adolescent male fantasy and objectivist survivalism. Having said that, World War Z […]
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