Category: Uncategorized
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links for 2010-07-08
ProPublica Photographer: I Was Followed by BP Security and Then Detained by Police (tags: sustainability media journalism social)
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links for 2010-07-07
Jim Rossignol — This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities (tags: book media games social toread)
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links for 2010-07-06
Juan Cole: Fundamentalist bombings of Lahore mystical Shrine leave 42 Dead, 175 Wounded The targeting of religious buildings and processions by the Taliban in Pakistan during the past more than six months, then, signals not only a determination to destabilize the country but also a conviction that Pakistan has departed from the true, pure Islam […]
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links for 2010-07-02
Are we really in a cultural golden age? | Music | The Big Questions | The A.V. Club Placed in combination, these factors—the natural tendency to reduce cultural intake as you get older, the oversaturation of the market in an age of globalism and digital media, and the short-sighted tendency to mistake short-term developments for […]
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links for 2010-07-01
Dave Zirin: The Beautiful Game, a Beautiful Cause: Why I Root for Argentina This has received next to no media coverage either in their native Argentina or around the world, but the team has fully embraced the courageous group of grandmothers known as Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo. This organization is devoted to finding out […]
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links for 2010-06-30
Toronto cops justify extreme G20 measures with display of LARPing props, weapons from unrelated busts Toronto Police are on the defensive this week as they attempt to defend their heavy-handed tactics during the G20. To prove the seriousness of the threat to public security, they took police on a tour of weapons confiscated from activists. […]
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links for 2010-06-29
The Onion — Executive, Legislative, Judicial Branches Merge (tags: politics comedy)
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links for 2010-06-28
Stuff White People Do: Pose In Cowboy Drag As Mel goes on to explain, Read Richard Slatta’s Cowboys of the Americas and you will get a very different picture. In reality, the first American cowboys were indigenous people trained by the Spanish missionaries. In reality, more than 30% of the cowboys on Texas trail drives […]
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links for 2010-06-22
Do We Really Have a 5th Taste? What Is the Umami Fad All About? | | AlterNet Umami was not discussed among the samurai or in the haiku of Basho. A mashup of umai, meaning "delicious," and mi, meaning "essence," this term and concept were created singlehandedly by the founder of Ajinomoto, a corporation whose […]
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links for 2010-06-18
Zakaria: Afghan mines won't guarantee victory Zakaria told CNN he is skeptical of the idea that you could "divide $1 trillion by the population of Afghanistan to reach the conclusion that every Afghan will be rich … the history of natural resources and mineral wealth is that it produces enormous corruption and mismanagement, and very […]