May 2009
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April 2009
The Pirate Google! →
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Wheels keep on spinning round
In a seedy karaoke bar
By the banks of the mighty Bosphorus
Is a Japanese man in a business suit singing ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’
And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits
Some days even Cake isn’t weird enough to describe the state of our universe.
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Tuvalu is sinking, but domain is on solid ground
The islands are, at best, 15 feet above sea level. Unusually high tides have started flooding the islands — not by creeping up the beaches, but by bubbling up through the ground, as if the islands were leaky boats. Prime Minister Saufatu Sopoaga has been jetting around the world in a panic, telling anyone who will listen that Tuvalu will be the first victim of global warming. As sea levels rise,...
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F.A.T. » Varito$: Bling out the streets.
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TV Leftovers (via Valdez on Vimeo)
Anja’s pictures of the ABC Bird Flu/End of the World movie reminded me of this quick video I made three years ago when it came out. Pre-W&$.
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It’s like someone coming up to you, sticking a gun to your head for 15 seconds,...
– Wall St. worker Bill Privett has the best quote on the incident.
The Day After Military Planes Flew Too Low Over NYC - Gothamist
(via peterwknox) (via mikehudack)
Last night, Larry Lessig tweeted that Warner Music had sent a takedown notice to...
– Warner Music claims Lessig is a pirate, has his presentation taken off YouTube - Boing Boing
via streeter
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On April 14, actor Hugh Jackman pledged to give AUS $100,000 to the charity that...
– MediaShift . How Charities Harness Social Media to Raise Awareness, Money | PBS
agon (plural agons or agones) 1. A struggle or contest; conflict; especially...
– agon - Wiktionary
How is it I’ve lived 1/3 of a century and never knew this word? Sometimes I really feel like I know jack-shit.
Using The WordPress Video Player « Demo Girl
Testing this. Pay no mind.
dalasverdugo:
Technology Minute 1 (via Vimeo)
I’m thinking a lot of you haven’t seen this video I made a couple years ago. I still like it.
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Shep Smith vs. Jack Nicholson on Torture (via Wreck&Salvage)
This was one of those late night ideas (wouldn’t it be cool to see Shep and Jack go at it?) that I just had to finish so I could get it out of my head.
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Like” in tumblr is a whispered approval instead of a shout. It’s...
– Twitter / Adam Quirk: “Like” in tumblr is a whis …
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What about that Bacon on Vimeo (via Wreck&Salvage)
Swine Flu, the pig’s revenge.
Our Mexico City source said a top scientist for the United Nations, who has...
– New swine flu feared to be weaponized strain
SUPPENDAPO # in case; 206-338-5973
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whatiwore:
WhatIWore: I’ve decided to pair with sponsors that align with the philosophies of What I Wore!! So if you’re represent a brand, product or online shop, you may be interested!! Click through for more info or e-mail me directly!
She’s been working on this sell page for a good while now. Great job!
Quote from an email
Part of the culture war is just another glass half full/glass half empty sort of situation. Things like pornography even vulgar literature has always existed since the dawn of time. There is a 14th century French poem titled “the knight who could speak to cunts.” We are what we consume and certain people in the culture want to consume negative things and others, beautiful things....
The goat is on a pole! →
Law + Culture + Business + Art + Rights
msg:
Luke Crawford on Law + Culture + Business + Art + Rights
Law: Current legal systems reflect the values of an industrial pre-information age. They will change when a critical mass of people figure out a better one or the pain of the old one hurts too much, whichever happens first. Laws move slowly.
Culture: The explosion of access to + sharing of content is making our shared culture more...
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mikehudack:
blip.tv now has 73% as many viewers in the United States as Hulu, even after their Super Bowl commercial and months-long television campaign. We both dipped in March slightly (fewer days) and grew fairly significantly in April. We’re ranked #81 on the Internet by Quantcast, they’re ranked #49.
We’re anticipating that our traffic will probably dip down a bit in May, and then...
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@lovepuppy, General Greene, 9am Sunday 4/26
Character is fate.
– Heroclitus (via ambivalence)
Alberto made the grave mistake of downloading Wall-E for his nephew while...
– $62,000 movie download a result of poor travel planning - Ars Technica
Finally, he took an independent attitude and I yessed him a lot, then he showed...
– [I’m a Reefer Man]
My name is Leon. I like music. Some people they spend a lotta money to...
– [No Bluff]
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