December 2007
“Now, in an unusual case in which an Arizona recipient of an RIAA letter has...”
– Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use
“The colonisation by the middle classes of the best state schools has led to a...”
– Rich pull away from poor in the classroom - Times Online
Climate Change Fueling Boom in Corporate... →
Dunning-Kruger effect →
The phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. — bullshit Oh yeah. Like climate-change “sceptics”
“In 2007, reported the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the United Kingdom faced the...”
– John Pilger
The big question facing voters in 2008
Why does Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock contain so much flabby dad-rock (Exhibit A: The Seeker by The Who; Exhibit B: fucking Foghat)? As a flabby dad myself, watching my kids spending hours “rocking out” to this shit, I have a right to know.
Modern Vespa : ET4: Easy Spark Plug Change →
For your consideration*
One of my teenage daughters is a fan of French singing legend Edith Piaf, owing to the fact that our family holidays driving through France were often accompanied by a Piaf tape on the car stereo. A further happy consequence is that we sat down last night to watch the DVD of La Vie en Rose (La Mome) said daughter received from her brother for Christmas. I’m a sucker for a music biopic,...
“In an analysis of State Department data on terrorism, Krueger discovered that...”
– Murdercide
“They are selling death on little wheels.”
– Mareen on an airplane cigarette vending cart (photo). I had no idea these existed. You can’t smoke on any U.S. planes. Leave it to those crazy Germans. @Marco: Even though you can’t smoke on any plane anywhere in the world (AFAIK), all airlines - including US airlines - sell duty-free...
“If the credit squeeze does indeed trigger a wider economic meltdown, that will...”
– Seumas Milne
“It’s often assumed that the U.S. labor movement died a natural death, that...”
– Paul Krugman
Should I buy an iPhone?
I love the idea of iPhone I could really do with mobile access to the web and my email I need a better digital camera I need a bigger iPod than my 4GB, 1G NanoBUT I’m not much of a phone person, preferring verbal to oral communication It’s a lot of money and a contract An iPod Touch OR a camera would give me either a cheaper, less risky mobile web option or better pictures I hear...
Sad Milestone:AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser... →
Please observe a moment of silence for the Netscape browser. Netscape Navigator, the browser that launched the commercial Internet in October 1994, will die on February 1, 2008. AOL, which acquired Netscape in November 1998 for $4.2 billion, will announce today that they will discontinue development of the browser, currently on version 9. — macuyiko The first browser I ever used *sniff*
MyMiniCity — virtual city building →
— azspot
“The copyright wars are a form of contemporary Lysenkoism, a farce wherein we all...”
– Cory Doctorow
“The People’s party needs to be refounded as a modern and democratic...”
– A tragedy born of military despotism and anarchy
AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace:... →
“it is “the very real possibility of the breakdown of order in...”
– “The One Stable State in the Middle East Is Iran”
Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007 →
“The point of NCLB never was to improve education. The goal was, as all the other...”
– Good education is a democratic right
Is it Christmas.com →
My favorite website of the season. — camh
Ah, Christmas...
Receivng clinic on “how to eat pussy” from my brother-in-law. Not uncomfortable! — yourmonkeycalled
This made me laugh while I was still mourning...
FedEx just brought my mom’s new hard drive and she did the new hard drive dance while repeating “I am *jazzed*!” How cool is my mom? — lonelysandwich
WatchOscar Peterson, one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, is dead at 82. You will be confused by his dexterity and genius when you listen to this recording of “Sweet Georgia Brown” from 1990. — lonelysandwich FUCK. Last year James Brown, this year Oscar Peterson. Merry fucking xmas.
if charlie parker was a... →
Gen. MacArthur unleashed an unremitting mandate from the US Capitol in the form of tear gas, unsheathed bayonets and plain, ordinary firepower. When it ended and the fires went out, over 1,000 marchers … and their wives … and their kids … were injured, four were dead, and the Anacostia flats — once all the Hooverville lumber had been carted away — resembled nothing...
Flickr: cyberstars →
This girl I know likes to video chat with pervs. Don’t ask me to explain it. — dalasverdugo She did a good job collecting some hopefully googlble screen names and their appearances. (So sick.) — mareen
