January 2012
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How Does Google See You? →
Jan 27th
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“Now, you can call this class warfare all you want. But asking a billionaire to...”
– President Obama, 2012 State of the Union address
Jan 26th
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Mañanifesto →
If you have been to Marfa or places like it, you may have experienced Mañana. Mañana cannot generally be found in cities with more than one stoplight. Mañana doesn’t care about email or normal hours of operation. Mañana recognizes that we can’t all have everything we want at any given moment, like peaches in January or cell phone reception in West Texas. Mañana is the anticipation...
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Listen“King of the World” by First Aid Kit from The...
Jan 24th
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“Storm Thorgerson, the long-established Pink Floyd album cover designer, renowned...”
– Gerald Scarfe, The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall
Jan 19th
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“Over the months Roger worked on the music and lyrics until the day he phoned and...”
– Gerald Scarfe recalling his first listen to Roger Waters’ demos for The Wall in his book The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall I’ve felt like this.
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Bubble #4: $4 a Gallon
Michael Nesmith on gasoline prices from Elephant Parts, 1981 The following text comes from “The Great American Bubble Machine” by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, 2009 By the beginning of 2008, the financial world was in turmoil. Wall Street had spent the past two and a half decades producing one scandal after another, which didn’t leave much to sell that wasn’t tainted. The terms junk...
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“Right now, Americans are suffering, they’re hurting, they’re in pain. When...”
– Dr. Cornel West on Mitt Romney’s assertion that Obama is dealing in the “politics of envy”
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s... →
Today I called a Senator’s office for the first time. First, let me say how fantastic it is that when you call the office, a real-live human picks up the phone and can speak to you. There’s no annoying menus, no transfers, no answering machines. Washington, please don’t ever change this. I was calling mostly to find out why the Senator supports (and co-sponsored!) S.968, aka the PROTECT IP Act...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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