May 2010
32 posts
May 29th
May 29th
“A little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development has been...”
– “Arian Campo-Flores on why the “illegal immigration” issue might not be an issue for much longer” (via newsweek) I thought the issue w/ immigration were the collateral consequences of US law that criminalizes people, not fertility rates that could or could not determine how many people cross borders...
May 29th
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May 29th
“(Space Jam Based on 2000 Year Old Mayan Creation Story?) Certainly the two...”
– Invoking the Ancestors: Edward Sapir, Bugs Bunny, and the Popol Vuh http://bit.ly/ck36w2 via @boingboing
May 28th
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The Deepwater Horizon spill isn’t just an accident. It represents part of a series of sociopathic actions by BP, readily lying and sacrificing human lives for personal gain. 1) BP is actively preventing cleanup crews from wearing respirators even as they’re falling sick in order to avoid admitting there’s a danger and minimize BP’s vulnerability to lawsuits. 2) BP is...
May 28th
"Thinking outside the box might be facilitated by... →
(via claytoncubitt)
May 27th
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May 26th
More Than Just an Oil Spill →
claytoncubitt: “The fact that 11 human beings were killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion (their bodies never found) has become, at best, an afterthought. BP counts its profits in the billions, and, therefore, it’s important. The 11 men working on the rig were no more important in the current American scheme of things than the oystermen losing their livelihoods along the gulf, or the wildlife...
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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Helping Johnny Remember via @boingboing
May 22nd
May 21st
The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be at least 10 times the size of official estimates: http://n.pr/bQOqoJ
May 17th
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Hi internet. I made you a mixtape. Enjoy!
May 13th
May 13th
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Apparently “ball lightning” is just a hallucination caused by magnetic fields in the storm changing so rapidly as to induce electrical current directly in the visual cortex. Cool beans! http://bit.ly/94pSZ1
May 13th
Portal is FREE! http://bit.ly/9Okk3D (For PC AND Mac. Only until the 24th).
May 12th
May 12th
May 11th
May 11th
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May 10th
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May 8th
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Community: Modern Warfare. Oh my god. Included are damn good scenes straight out of 28 Days Later, Terminator, Predator, John Woo movies, and The Warriors. I love it.
May 8th
BP Oil spill being dispersed with chemicals which are 3x as lethal and half as effective as other available dispersants: http://bit.ly/8ZqJMB
May 7th
May 6th
May 6th
The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want TO CHARITY! for five awesome indie games) http://bit.ly/9UXF3B Of the five I can confirm that at least 3 (Aquaria, World of Goo, and Penumbra) are all must-plays. I spent $70 and god knows how many hours on these as individual purchases in the past. Note too that there’s no DRM, it works on PC, Mac, or Linux, and you can choose to purchase it as a...
May 5th
“This is the U.S. Senate, where matters of incredible inter-generational...”
– On the Graham-Reid flustercluck | Grist http://bit.ly/bmOi7q (via @keikotakamura)
May 3rd
WONDER-TONIC: Facebook Users Outraged That... →
Following Facebook’s recent revisions to its privacy policy, many users are lashing out against the social network, angry that deep personal details they share with ex-co-workers, friends of friends of grade school friends, and people they met once during college orientation may now be shared…
May 1st
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