April 2010
BBC Press Office: Global poll: Wide... →
nosex:
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC World Service global poll suggests that dissatisfaction with free market capitalism is widespread, with an average of only 11% across 27 countries saying that it works well and that greater regulation is not a good idea.
In only two countries do more than one in five feel that capitalism works well as it stands, according to...
David Harvey Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 →
“‘Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic of all those societies we call capitalist, spreading out, sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood, into every nook and cranny of the inhabited world’, writes David Harvey, the world’s most cited academic geographer. He gives Laurie [Taylor] a radical critique of what governs that flow of capital and what causes the crises...
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“Sure, the level of gravitas here is different than it would be if we were...”
– Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
“The Gizmodo seizure reminds us that not only are our tax dollars at stake, but...”
– Corynne McSherry
BBC News - Gordon Brown 'bigoted woman' comment... →
inteawetrust:
You have to watch the second video clip in this story. I can’t even find the words for how incredibly British the entire exchange is. From the very beginning, when she encounters the prime minister while out for a walk, to the middle, where she actually answers her phone on live television, right up to the end where she’s upset with what had happened but happy enough to keep on...
Michael Buble Being Stalked By A Velociraptor →
Clarification: what I posted in the comments, on... →
OK, just to be clear, and as I have just stated elsewhere: I have no problem with the California authorities launching an investigation, or Apple mounting a civil prosecution. I have no view on it either way, that is a matter for them. I do, in fact, have qualms about Gawker’s conduct, and for that matter about any blogger or news organisation using money to gain access to anything for...
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What if that iPhone had been an incriminating...
The whole Jason Chen/iPhone/Gizmodo snafu is a pretty unedifying prospect, on account of:
Who gives a shit?
Gawker Media is a pissy example of everything that smells of feet about NYC media
They outed the guy who lost the phone instead of the guy who sold it on to them
BUT John Gruber still deserves the strongest possible contempt for cheerleading the exercise of state power in support of...
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“Strange that banker-bashing hasn’t played more of a role in the election, given...”
– John Lanchester: Fuckyouitis
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Spruce up your boring website, d00d →
gospelofmoll:
With the Geocities-izer!
This is fantastic.
lintintheinkwell-deactivated201 asked: it's been a day friend. where have you gone
“At the exclusive launch party of Tina Brown’s now defunct Talk magazine,...”
– Sky leaders’ debate spin room: the live abortion of democracy | Marina Hyde | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Soldiers in "WikiLeaks" Unit Apologize for... →
azspot:
We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. Josh Stieber was in the same company but was not there that day, though he contributed to the your pain, and the pain of your community on many other occasions.
There is no bringing back all that was...
Want to be Tumblr's Community Ambassador to Italy... →
staff:
We’re hiring!
Much as it pains me to pass on a job that would divide my time between Italy and NYC (GAH), I nominate Puscic for the Italian gig.
John Gruber, journalism and that iPhone
Merlin Mann enthuses about John Gruber’s latest, comprehensive piece on the whole Gizmodo stolen 4G iPhone story. ”You want journalism?” he tweets, describing it as “simply outstanding”. I’m not convinced, and I think Gruber’s position deserves more considered scrutiny than this.
All week, Gruber has been railing against Gizmodo over the possibly...
Hitler “Downfall Meme” gets DMCA’d →
A recent wave of takedown notices affecting many of the Hitler “Downfall” parody videos has resulted in their removal from YouTube. The copyright claim is being filed on behalf of Constantin Films, the German production company that owns the rights to the 2004 film Der Untergang (Downfall), from which the clip originates.
“As the Tea Party totters precariously between empire and republic, the fragile...”
– Medea Benjamin: Many in the Tea Party Crowd Have Little Appetite for War and Empire
