September 2011
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“When viewers in the UK attempt to watch videos of the protest, they are met with...”
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Paul Watson on YouTube’s new partnership with the UK government over protest videos • The British government is hoping the removal of certain protest images from the popular video sharing website will prevent copycat demonstrations from forming in the future. The British government isn’t the only...
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Watchusagov:
This video shows the the flowing ribbons and rays of the aurora australis, or “southern lights,” filmed by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) while passing over the Indian Ocean on September 17. This was filmed while ISS passed from south of Madagascar to just north of Australia between 17:22 and 17:45 Universal Time. Solar panels and other sections of the ISS fill some...
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“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,...”
– John Adams (via delphineplayerplease)
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I'm not sure what's worse, people not knowing the...
Google is making beer →
villagevoice:
I bet they are pissed they already used the name “Google Buzz”
Not so sure how I feel about this…
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Twitter Confirms That Late Day Slump →
discoverynews:
Sociologists at Cornell University studied updates from millions of Twitter users, analyzing tweets on an hourly and daily basis. After breakfast, moods from Dubuque to Dubai start going downhill.
The sociologists analyzed more than half a million public updates from 2.4 million Twitter users in 84 countries over a two-year period. They divided the updates into groups by...
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“The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to...”
– John Updike (via)
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christianmingler replied to your photo: You think you guys hate the new layout of facebook…
do you hate it?
To be honest, I don’t hate it…But I don’t see the point either. Why fix something that isn’t broken?
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A photograph entitled "Koranic Inlay" which shows...
RABAT - A photograph entitled “Koranic Inlay” which shows verses of the holy Muslim book projected on the French-Moroccan artist’s naked body has caused a stir ahead of an art fair in Marrakesh.
Work by 27-year-old Mehdi-Georges Lahlou is due to be on show at the September 30-October 3 ArtFair although neither the offending picture nor the artist himself are expected to be...
Internet shut off at Wall Street protest →
Several activists are reporting that internet signals and access are being blocked at the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in New York. This same tactic has recently been employed at Bay Area Rapid Transit protests on the opposite side of the continent in San Francisco to shut down cell phone service. See a trend?
what…..the…fuck….
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"Manhattan continued to have the biggest income... →
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NY TIMES: One in five New York City residents live... →
inothernews:
Good thing Wall Streeters get whisked away in limos with tinted windows paid for with bonuses and big tax breaks.
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““I’d like to address the MacPhail family. Let you know, despite the...”
– Troy Davis’ Last words before he was executed.
BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER.: Going forward, →
inothernews:
we can all decide to see what’s going on here — the perversion of our judicial system, our political system, our economy; the corruption and upending of our folkways and mores; the greatness that makes these the UNITED States of America coming apart at the edges while simultaneously being rended apart from within — we can all decide to see this and give up on our country, or our...