November 2009
“Populism is ultimately always sustained by the frustrated exasperation of...”
– Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (via langer)
October 2009
“Had we known that we competed against a candidate that enjoys the support of the...”
– José Mujica, Presidential candidate in the upcoming ballotage (second round) in Uruguay’s national election.
WatchBill Moyers Journal web exclusive with Glenn Greenwald, pbs.org
Acclaimed blogger Glenn Greenwald, recipient of the Park Center for Independent Media Izzy Award, spoke with Bill Moyers this week for the special web-exclusive conversation.
Siouxsie and The Banshees: “Halloween”
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Google's robots.txt, date=10312009 →
—via @nataliav
... Disallow: /squared/tableDisallow: /toolkit/ Allow: /toolkit/*.html Disallow: /qnasearch? Disallow: /errors/ Disallow: /voice/fm/ Disallow: /voice/media/ Disallow: /voice/shared/ Disallow: /app/updates User-agent: Kids Disallow: /tricks Allow: /treats ....
“Some people online are trying to flout Dunbar’s number, to become connected and...”
– Seth’s Blog: Dunbar’s Number isn’t just a number, it’s the law (via superamit: mikehudack: ericmortensen)
vruz: meaning: your brain can’t handle more than 150 - 200 people in your head at once. it’s a real, physical, biological limitation. you just can’t be friends with thousands...
Morrissey: ‘Jack The Ripper’
Radio...
Open Source Obama →
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, ComputerWorld. h/t Groklaw
The U.S. government has long used open-source software. Beowulf, the popular Linux-based clustering and super-computer program, for example, got its start at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Under President Obama, open-source software though is showing up in more and more places.
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I don’t think Simon Phipps,...
“Buenos-Ayres, la reine du Sud, et Montevideo, la coquette, se tendent une main...”
– Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
Buenos Aires, the Queen of the South, and Montevideo, the coquette, extend a friendly hand across the waters of the great silver-plated (argentinean) estuary. But Eternal War has placed her destructive empire over the fields on the country, and she reaps with...
“It is for this reason, O peoples of the earth, that when you shall hear the...”
– Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
“Let that day never dawn when Lohengrin and I should pass side by side and elbow...”
– Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror
Pink Floyd - “Echoes”
—via misterpeace
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WatchLunatics
—via unburyingthelead:benjaminhilts:soupsoup:Jon Stewart eviscerates Fox News. One of my favorite Daily Show takedowns of all time.
Genome Analysis Shows Neanderthals And Humans Had... →
—via jimihands:rev:
Germany (ChattahBox) - A geneticist who has been studying the genomes taken from the bones of Neanderthals and modern humans is set to publish a study that sex was common between the two species.
The debate about whether or not the two species interbred during their approximately 12,000 years of coexistence has always been a heated one.
But new evidence...
Syd Barrett - Gigolo Aunt
—via deadscreen
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The White Stripes: Walking With A Ghost
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Brian Jonestown Massacre: “You Look Great When I’m...
“The doctor said I shouldn’t smile. I told him, ‘I don’t.’”
– Morrissey Returns for London Performance - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com (via ayse) (via zurv) (via electronicalrattlebag)
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft (via bluechameleon)
Saudis drop major oil contract →
vruz: up next: Chavez. help him to radicalise further and tell me how that goes. how about control freaks taking control of saudi arabia? mmmm… that’s not gonna work
—via ledgergermane via Financial Times ft.com
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday decided to drop the widely used West Texas Intermediate oil contract as the benchmark for pricing its oil, dealing a serious blow to the...
UK Confirms Plans To Warn, Throttle, Kick Illegal... →
vruz sez: straight from the Ministry of Innovation!!
by @robertandrews, Paid Content UK
The UK government, as expected, will write in to November’s upcoming Digital Economy Bill a French-style, graduated-response method of tackling unauthorised content downloading, controversially leading to eventual possible suspension of ISP accounts for persistent infringers.
Business, Innovation &...
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - U.S. Government
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Shep Smith Apologizes for Fox News' Lack of... →
—via bringmethathorizon:think4yourself: soupsoup
vruz: I mean… it’s one of them who says it this time, right? I wonder how long Shep will last on the Fox vortex side.
“He is a good Democrat, votes with us on everything, except the war”
– Sen. Harry Reid (D) (via @glenngreenwald and Greenwald @ Salon.com)
vruz: translation: Lieberman… you better behave or we’ll kick your balls all the way back to RNC.
“Fully disclosed source code is the path to true transparency and confidence in...”
– Eric Coomer, vice president of research and product development for Sequoia Voting Systems (via thedaytheytriedtokillme) 