Category: Uncategorized
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links for 2010-10-17
PHYSICS SAYS cellphones can’t cause cancer. “Cell phones cannot cause cancer, because they do not e… (tags: science technology media)
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links for 2010-10-16
Why the Singularity isn't going to happen I don't believe in the Singularity for the same reason I don't believe in Heaven. Once I met a Singularity zealot who claimed that eating potato chips after the Singularity would induce sublime ecstasy. Our senses would be so heightened that we could completely focus our whole attention […]
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links for 2010-10-15
Another Arab American Finds Tracking Device in His Car | The Progressive “I have an elderly Arab American client who was attending a free workshop on how to be a mechanic, and they were using his car as the demonstration car for an oil change,” she says. “In the middle of the class, the instructor […]
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links for 2010-10-13
5 Examples of Americans Thinking Foreign People Are Magic | Cracked.com In the good old days, white colonial powers went to poor foreign countries asking themselves, "What do these people have for us to steal?" Nowadays, enlightened white people go to poor foreign countries and ask, "What do these noble people have to teach us?" […]
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links for 2010-10-10
BBC News – Obama to add solar panels to White House (tags: sustainability green politics) American student finds GPS tracker stuck to car, FBI shows up to reclaim its 'federal property' When 20-year-old Yasir Afifi's ride was put up on lifts his shop found something that hadn't been kicked up from the road: a cylindrical […]
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links for 2010-10-08
The Nation: Lou Dobbs used undocumented workers for years (tags: race politics culture)
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links for 2010-10-07
High Court Struggles With Military Funerals Case : NPR Justice Stephen Breyer noted that Snyder had not seen the picketers' signs at the funeral, that he only saw the signs when he viewed TV coverage afterward. So, the justice asked, where do we draw the line on when you can sue for damages, and when […]
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links for 2010-10-06
The Social Network's Female Props It’s hard not to enjoy The Social Network. It is an impressive film: crisp, beautiful, kinetic, with humor as dark as its lighting. But Colbert was right. Women in the movie—apart from the lawyer and Erica, who sets the stage and disappears—are less prizes than they are props, buxom extras […]
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links for 2010-10-01
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker Enthusiasts for social media would no doubt have us believe that King’s task in Birmingham would have been made infinitely easier had he been able to communicate with his followers through Facebook, and contented himself with tweets from a Birmingham jail. But networks are messy: think […]
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links for 2010-09-30
Indie Music Is Not the Only Genre That Has Erected Racial Barriers | Guardian (UK) (tags: music, media, culture, race)