January 2011
8 Smears and Misconceptions About WikiLeaks Spread... →
The corporate media’s tendency to blare misinformation and outright fabrications has been particularly egregious in coverage of WikiLeaks. As Glenn Greenwald has argued, mainstream news outlets are parroting smears and falsehoods about the whistleblower site and its founder Julian Assange, helping to perpetuate a number of “zombie lies” — misconceptions that refuse to die no matter how...
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December 2010
Lessons that 2010 taught the entertainment... →
This was a year of hard lessons. Movie attendance and ticket sales fell. Television shows struggled and died. Book publishers faced an electronic future. And through it all, some great works of the imagination thrived. What did 2010 teach us?
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“We see the emerging opportunity to ‘snackify’ beverages and ‘drinkify’ snacks as...”
– Indra Nooyi - PepsiCo CEO This is pretty sick though.  We are moving ever closer to the society envisioned by WALL-E.  Liquified food.  Dumb, fat humans marching towards our extinction with a 40 oz. Slurpee and a straw.  Terrific. (via adamiss and evangotlib) I’ll plagiarize Michael Pollan...
Dec 29th
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Reasons why my CL post selling a...
I am “a fag.” “No one likes iPhones.” My “mom gives good head.” “No one likes AT&T.” “is in being deal of none, to flagging on crag list. is not new of manufacture or distribution, not in close.” I “suck.” “It’s stolen.” AT&T makes you buy a new one, used ones get “confiscated.” I...
Dec 29th
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“If you haven’t put all the pieces of the story together, let me do it for you....”
– A VC: The Smartphone Explosion A Mobile explosion is coming in 2011. (via veken)
Dec 27th
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“Bradley’s gonna become a “spy” whose “espionage” consisted of making the...”
– Bruce Sterling’s thoughts on Wikileaks (via zachklein) very interesting essay by bruce sterling. i don’t understand his bitterness but it is worth a read. (via pukomuko) Rafer sez: As an American nerd over 40, I’d bet shame and learned helplessness are better descriptions than bitterness. Not...
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Bradley Manning Speaks About His Conditions →
Bradley Manning speaks to his conditions in military prison. Bottom line: they’re pretty horrific.
Dec 23rd
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Anonymous asked: I loved you wikileaks piece, especially the background because of my interest in sociocultural evolution.

Perhaps my sociocultural view of wikileaks may ring some bells?

http://grimeandreason.blogspot.com/2010/12/sociocultural-evolution-view-of.html
Dec 21st
Anonymous asked: I loved you wikileaks piece, especially the background because of my interest in sociocultural evolution.

Perhaps my sociocultural view of wikileaks may ring some bells?

http://grimeandreason.blogspot.com/2010/12/sociocultural-evolution-view-of.html
Dec 20th
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On the topic of my worldview, or why I have and...
This post has been, like most things worth doing, long and difficult in its birth. Its impetus was a long conversation with a friend, mentor, occasional verbal sparring partner, and erstwhile business associate on December 6th, one day after Wikileaks began to release what has now become known as “Cablegate.” We were both forced to come to the conclusion that given a specific topic of...
Dec 20th
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On the topic of my worldview, or why I have and...
This post has been, like most things worth doing, long and difficult in its birth. Its impetus was a long conversation with a friend, mentor, occasional verbal sparring partner, and erstwhile business associate on December 6th, one day after Wikileaks began to release what has now become known as “Cablegate.” We were both forced to come to the conclusion that given a specific topic of...
Dec 20th
OK Go's Damian Kulash on the Future of the Music... →
jaredklett: Music is getting harder to define again. It’s becoming more of an experience and less of an object. Without records as clearly delineated receptacles of value, last century’s rules—both industrial and creative—are out the window. For those who can find an audience or a paycheck outside the traditional system, this can mean blessed freedom from the music industry’s gatekeepers. ...
Dec 19th
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Dec 17th
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Season 3
60tosexy: It was inevitable. You have two weeks to prepare yourself, your goals, and your schedule. We begin on January 1st. We end on March 1st. Pictures are mandatory. Progress is mandatory. Participation is not. It’s time to kick your own ass. You deserve it. It. Is. Coming. Prepare yourselves.
Dec 17th
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Season 3
60tosexy: It was inevitable. You have two weeks to prepare yourself, your goals, and your schedule. We begin on January 1st. We end on March 1st. Pictures are mandatory. Progress is mandatory. Participation is not. It’s time to kick your own ass. You deserve it. Prepare yourselves.
Dec 17th
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Hospital saves woman’s life; is told by Catholic... →
rosietint: Now, Bishop Thomas Olmstead of the Diocese has written a letter to the hospital in which he doesn’t deny that the procedure saved the woman’s life, but nevertheless deems it morally wrong and asks the hospital to promise that a life-saving abortion “will never occur again at St. Joseph’s Hospital.” That’s right: A religious leader wants a hospital to promise that it will not take...
Dec 17th
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String theory fails first major experimental test →
A few years ago, a group of physicists came up with an ingenious way to test for the existence of hidden dimensions, a key aspect of many string theory models. Basically, the experiment rests upon the existence of micro black holes, objects tinier than an atomic nucleus that could theoretically be produced by smashing together a pair of protons at tremendously high velocities. This micro black...
Dec 16th
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C-SPAN - Lawmakers Discuss Constitutional Issues... →
Watch live at the above link.
Dec 16th
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Espionage Act makes felons of us all -... →
Dear Americans: If you are not “authorized” personnel, but you have read, written about, commented upon, tweeted, spread links by “liking” on Facebook, shared by email, or otherwise discussed “classified” information disclosed from WikiLeaks, you could be implicated for crimes under the U.S. Espionage Act — or so warns a legal expert who said the U.S....
Dec 16th
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YouTube Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Next New... →
nickdouglas: tedr: spytap: mikehudack: nickdouglas: Hot damn! Congratulations, guys! Seriously. I would be very, very interested to see the results of this and how it would integrate with and enhance youtube’s current offerings. GoogleTV becomes involved, I’m sure. I recently head that YouTube approached a vertical with a lot of videos. They offered to promote that discovery of...
Dec 15th
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YouTube Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Next New... →
mikehudack: nickdouglas: Hot damn! Congratulations, guys! Seriously. I would be very, very interested to see the results of this and how it would integrate with and enhance youtube’s current offerings. GoogleTV becomes involved, I’m sure.
Dec 15th
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Names You Need To Know: Augmented Reality →
Mark my words: this is 2011. If you think AR is going to be relegated to magazine ads or twitter, your mind is going to be blown. Your phone is about to become a portal into an entirely new world.
Dec 15th
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10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2011 →
With more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets posted on Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views each day on YouTube—, social media has become an integral part of our connected lives. But this is just the beginning.
Dec 15th
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Julian Assange did not break law, Wayne Swan... →
Now he likely didn’t break American law either, but that’s not gonna stop people from charging him under the “creeping definition of terrorism” and “anything inconvenient for America is inherently and undeniably illegal, even if we have to make new laws that charge people retroactively” clauses of the Espionage Act of 1917, New King James Edition. $315,000 and...
Dec 15th
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“I always wanted to spend my twilight years being regarded as a grizzled...”
– Clint Eastwood (via celluloidblonde)
Dec 15th
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The solar system's weirdest moon once had a moon... →
The photos in this article are kind of incredible.
Dec 15th
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The solar system's weirdest moon once had a moon... →
The photos in this article are kind of incredible.
Dec 15th
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WatchWatch
peterwknox: thegreg: comedycentral: Jon Stewart Blasts GOP for Screwing Over 9/11 Responders Classic Stewart barnburner. I posted the transcript of this, but it truly has to be seen. These fucks need to be held accountable for their blatant and insulting hypocrisy. This is The Daily Show at it’s best. The GOP - We’ll use you, and then throw you away.
Dec 14th
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Paying the bills is no excuse. If the price of... →
Hear, hear!
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Mike Hudack: interweber: 2) What if I logged in... →
seanbonner: interweber: 2) What if I logged in using Facebook Connect? Was my password compromised? No. We never stored passwords of users who logged in using Facebook Connect. 3) What if I linked my Twitter account with my Gawker Media account? Was my Twitter password compromised? No. We never stored Twitter passwords from users who linked their Twitter accounts with their Gawker Media...
Dec 13th
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