February 2011
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A $4 bottle of red wine and Carl Sagan's "Contact"
My Downward Spiral.
January 2011
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Drunk poetry
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand....
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Glenn Beck: Not antisemitic because he's...
I’m mostly content to ignore Glenn Beck these days; I think that a large part of his notoriety owes to tribalism on the left, and the obsessive need to have a clearly-defined Other. But in this case, Beck has careened past his usual incitements to violence and into full-on warmongering. And in the process, he’s resurrecting a narrative that pushed us to the brink of global war in...
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Win the future
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The new feudalism
“Could the Fed go broke? The answer to this question was ‘Yes,’ but is now ‘No,’” said Raymond Stone, managing director at Stone & McCarthy in Princeton, New Jersey. “An accounting methodology change at the central bank will allow the Fed to incur losses, even substantial losses, without eroding its capital.”
The change essentially allows the...
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Fluorescent lighting over the bathroom mirror
Also known as the self-esteem destroyer
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Do you like Kanye West and fantasy-fiction?
Because if so, hang on for about 15 minute cuz I’ve got something that’s gonna knock your socks on your ass.
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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. - April 4, 1967, Riverside Church, NYC
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NYTimes: Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in...
Yesterday’s New York Times featured a lengthy exposé on the development of Stuxnet, the virus deployed by the U.S. and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran’s nuclear centrifuges at the Natanz facility in central Iran. It’s an interesting article, but perhaps not for the reasons its authors intended: This is yet another example of how our media serves as a conduit for the...
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NYTimes: Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in...
Yesterday’s New York Times featured a lengthy exposé on the development of Stuxnet, the virus deployed by the U.S. and Israeli governments to sabotage Iran’s nuclear centrifuges at the Natanz facility in central Iran. It’s an interesting article, but perhaps not for the reasons its authors intended: This is yet another example of how our media serves as a conduit for the...
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“Along with other economic principles, game theory is one of the new popular...”
– Salon: “The Economics of Love”
Maybe I’m only thinking this way because I just read Super Sad True Love Story, but all I can think about when I read this is how in the future, the dating scene is going to be reduced to tapping away at your äppärät and broadcasting your...
