August 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
The Mummies (188)
Ramones (4)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (3)
Booker T. & The MG’s (3)
Mark Ronson (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“You can let people do anything they want, say anything they want, have a...”
– Chris Floyd (http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1825-bait-and-switch-using-diversity-to-disguise-inequality.html) (via Instapaper)
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The Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Okay, so, what is it that you want to do?
(via zombienumbersix)
We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride. And we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man. And we want to get loaded. And we want to have a good time! And that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna have a good time. We’re gonna have a party!
(And we want to be free to reproduce quotes in full...
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US envoy 'in angry Karzai talks' →
The US special envoy to Afghanistan has held an “explosive” meeting with Afghan Puppet President Hamid Karzai over the unwelcome outcome of the country’s carefully stage-managed election, the BBC has learnt.
Richard Holbrooke raised concerns about ballot-stuffing and fraud, by a number of candidates’ teams, sources told us to say.
The US envoy also said a second-round...
Even the New Republic now calls for a party purge... →
unburyingthelead:
When the White House genuinely wants a bill to pass — rather than paying irrelevant lip service to it — they know how to apply pressure on the defiant members of Congress:
The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatening freshmen who oppose it that they won’t get help with reelection and will be cut...
“Rest in peace, Teddy Kennedy.
O last knight of Camelot,
O lion of the Senate,...”
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: R.I.P., Ted Kennedy
syska:
Louis Prima - Just A Gigolo / I Ain’t Got...
Watchpoortaste:
The Century of Self - BBC Documentary
Part 1 58min
Adam Curtis ARB
Ted Kennedy as New Dealer? →
(via Instapaper)
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“…the idea of blocking access was rejected, and it was decided that the earliest...”
– An uncreative solution to online piracy | John Naughton - Times Online (via publiccommunication)
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Mandelson denies Geffen meeting influenced... →
“Your report (25 August) of measures being considered by the government to tackle illegal peer-to-peer filesharing suggested the change in thinking was brought about by a meeting with David Geffen while I was on holiday, in addition to separate meetings with Lucian Grainge of Universal Music. As David Geffen and I have both made very clear, the subject of internet piracy was not discussed...
The Mummies - Die!
60s garage goodness from,...
Gitmo inmate freed without charge after 7 years →
tsparks:
From al arabiya.net August 24, 2009
Mohammed Jawad, 19, one of the youngest detainees held at the United States prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released Monday and sent back to his native Afghanistan in the latest departure from the controversial prison that is set to close in five months. “Jawad was released and returned to Afghanistan today, ending nearly seven years of illegal...
Internet cut-off threat for illegal downloaders →
publiccommunication:
People who persist in swapping copyrighted films and music will have their internet connections cut off under tough new laws to be proposed by the government today.
The measures also include taking the power to target illegal downloaders away from regulator Ofcom and giving it to ministers to speed up the process.
The decision to cut off peer-to-peer filesharers is...
“The lesson here is that the truly subversive thing is not to insist on...”
– Slavoj Zizek (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html) (via Instapaper)
“The big demonstrations in London and Washington against the US attack on Iraq a...”
– Slavoj Zizek (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html) (via Instapaper)
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PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
“I adore you.”
– Charlie Rose to Helen Mirren at the end of an interview. Helen lifts her wrist and looks at her watch. Hot. (via hereharehere)
Ikea goes Verdana
hellaposer:
This is kinda crazy and pretty hard to believe.
IKEA abandons ~50 years of Futura and Century Schoolbook for … Verdana. In an interview with swedish design magazine CAP&DESIGN the reason for the change is to be able to use the same font i all countries, including asian countries. Also they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and the web.
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Obama to Nominate Bernanke to Lead Fed for Second... →
shaneguiter:
President Obama on Tuesday will nominate Ben S. Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, administration officials said.
The announcement is a major victory for Mr. Bernanke, a Republican who was appointed by President George W. Bush almost four years ago and who had briefly served as chairman of Mr. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.
A top White House...
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OK, this was fun for about thirty seconds. How do...
Daily Kos: Niall Ferguson: The Historian As... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Vivian Girls (41)
Les Baxter (12)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (4)
James Brown (3)
Eels (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Professor Paul Krugman at war with Niall Ferguson... →
m-x:
One of them is a “poseur”. The other is “patronising”. One suffers from “verbal diarrhoea”. The other is a “whiner”. A bust-up on the set of High School Musical 4 perhaps? A scrap behind the catwalk at a Milan fashion show? No. Those accusations were slung round in an increasingly bitter public row between two of the world’s most distinguished commentators on global finance and economics,...
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Help me understand: "Blackwater"
kiamatthews:
themattsmith:
Can you explain the political importance of Blackwater in three sentences?
Isn’t that the successor to Operation Treadstone? I think you should speak with David Webb, alias Jason Bourne.
Who the fuck does themattsmith think he is? Jakob Odwick?