February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
4 posts
“Art is entertainment, it is spectacle, it is cheap theatre. When an artist with...”
– The Turner prize’s spurning of George Shaw shows the art world is shallow | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
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November 2011
10 posts
“Yes, there always going to be rich and poor. But we used to live in country...”
– Cookie Monster
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“Nobody with a conventional frame of mind would spend one hour walking every day...”
– Jacob Lund Fisker (via minimalthinking)
Materialicious →
A quick hello to everyone coming to my site from Materialicious - and thanks for featuring my work!
IEA study warns that we have 5 years before door... →
Anything built from now on that produces carbon will do so for decades, and this “lock-in” effect will be the single factor most likely to produce irreversible climate change, the world’s foremost authority on energy economics has found. If this is not rapidly changed within the next five years, the results are likely to be disastrous.
Just keep denying, you morans.
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"Beginning" from the beginning →
What, two blog posts in a week? Am I feeling OK? Yep - just finally have some time to sit down and update things. Here’s another piece I got done over the summer:
I batted around the idea…
October 2011
4 posts
“The greatest hoax of the last couple of decades has been the ability of the...”
– John Cole (via wilwheaton)
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To Steve →
I was shocked at how deeply the news of Steve Jobs’ death affected me. There I was, standing in the back yard, looking up at a blue October sky blurred by tears. I had to look inward a bit, try to…
September 2011
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“Here’s what actually happened: When we first met Thierry, he was supposed to be...”
– Ron English
Ron fills in some of the backstory behind how the film Exit Through The Gift Shop came about.
The phrase “win/win” is often over used and under executed in business, but I think this is a pretty flawlessly executed case study of the term. (via brycedotvc)
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Leaked EPA Memo links Pesticide Company To Mass... →
letterstomycountry:
A leaked EPA memo is being cited by scientists as smoking gun evidence of likely cause of the massive die-off of honeybees. The culprits, these researchers claim, are Bayer CropScience and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The memo details how Bayer performed facially inadequate testing on the pesticide clothianidin and then EPA accepted the results to release...
WIL WHEATON dot TUMBLR: in the shadowplay acting... →
wilwheaton:
I want to know why Congressional Republicans are so determined to cause so many millions of Americans real, prolonged, unnecessary suffering, so multi-millionaires and multi-national corporations can have even more money in their pockets. I want to know why so many millions of our fellow…
Wil - you’ve got my vote!
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August 2011
10 posts
Smplist. →
Oh my dog. This is the perfect message coupled with its perfect medium.
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Anti-science trend gets more scary | R. Matthew... →
The United States is experiencing an anti-science resurgence not seen since the 1920s. This spring the Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill supporting creationism to be taught in science classes. Presidential candidates Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann are on record for denying climate change and doubting evolution.
Bachmann suggests “putting all science on the table and then...
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“If we are overproducing, how can we justify making art?
We are sitting in...”
– Tony Crag
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/08/sculpting-shapes-that-dont-exist.html
July 2011
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Robert Reich: The Empty Bully Pulpit →
robertreich:
How did we get into this mess?
I thought I’d seen Washington at its worst. I was there just after Watergate. I was there when Jimmy Carter imploded. I was there during the government shut-down of 1995.
But I hadn’t seen the worst. This is the worst.
How can it be that with over 9 percent…
Robert nails it.
