March 2008
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
Twitter, iPhones Let Sex Workers Spread Their... →
The effect of new social technologies on media coverage of the Eliot Spitzer debacle.. and how they allowed active participation by sex workers in the portrayal of their industry.
Mar 30th
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Mar 29th
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“This is how we reduce the police murder rate in Seattle. You know, where the...”
– So, Charles Manson Called Me Last Night
Mar 29th
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“ Song Title - In Giant Web 2.0 Helvetica Typeface Some Shitty 2008 Disco Band -...”
– catbird.muxtape.com
Mar 29th
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Environmental Risk Assessment Rover–AT, Version... →
ERAR–AT is a mobile, solar- and GPS-powered, networked video installation that will accumulate and aggregate the environmental threats and risks faced by the population in its immediate location. ERAR-AT performs the difficulty of perceiving, evaluating, and understanding risk scenarios and presents an assessment of its given locale by producing a unique fourteen-tiered threat level embedded live...
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Mar 27th
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“…the majority of kids who come to the attention of adults because of their...”
– Putting Descartes before the horse
Mar 27th
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Mar 26th
Postcards From Yo Momma →
“Does she wish you called more often?” A Collection of emails that people have received from their mothers. [via]
Mar 26th
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“Listen, I just think it’s bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my...”
– Web Scout exclusive! Rick Astley, king of the ‘Rickroll,’ talks about his song’s second coming
Mar 26th
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Evolution of Security: Terrorists Evolve. Threats... →
The Transportation Security Administration’s blog. An apparent attempt at … I don’t know, transparency? I hate the TSA immensely (even though I only fly about once a year tops) but this is hilarious.
Mar 26th
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“But one of the main reasons I enjoy prostitutes is because I enjoy breaking the...”
– The brothel creeper
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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kanYe West: Blog →
I am not a big fan of Kanye West’s musical projects where he is anything but a producer, but I am a strangely big fan of this. I find it disorienting and confusing, but a solid collection of art & design that i enjoy.
Mar 25th
Mar 25th
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Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death-Row Inmates →
Is it ethical to ‘waste’ the organs of those on death row (who, as the author points out, will not be using those organs anyway)? Is it ethical to take the organs of someone still living, even if they are going to die anyway? Makes some interesting points about the current situation of organ donation. I think that maybe if we were a little more honest with ourselves about how we have...
Mar 25th
Mar 25th
Insect Porn →
Just what it sounds like, photographs of copulating insects
Mar 25th
“They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn’t notice my guest. They...”
– EXPELLED! [via]
Mar 24th
“I have no understanding of her alternate universe. I don’t wanna stay at...”
– Anthony Bourdain on Ina Garten [via]
Mar 24th
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“Heavy on symbol and low on substance, the movement in Phoenix has become a...”
– Phoenix Insurgent’s “Damn Near Seven Years of Failure: The Phoenix Anti-War Movement and the Ritual Cult of Defeat”
Mar 24th
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Victorian sex factoids →
Misconceptions about sex in the Victorian era. Includes many “facts” that I am quite disappointed to have debunked. Really? Vibrators weren’t developed to treat hysteria? Queen Victoria didn’t actually tell her daughter to close her eyes & think of england? I’m crushed, literally crushed, Lesley Hall.
Mar 24th
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How to Cook Medieval: Foods to Never Use →
Lists of foods generally unavailable in Europe during the middle ages, that are often strangely prominent at renaissance ‘faires’. My interest in this historical anachronism overshadows my interest in lying about having been to a renaissance festival.
Mar 24th
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“In general, if you ever find yourself saying, “I’m not a...”
– Racist
Mar 24th
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“Even though I haven’t seen you in years / yours is a funeral I’d fly...”
– “These Few Presidents” by Why?
Mar 23rd
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“Not the ginger ale your mom gave you when you were sick – I’m talking Detroit...”
– “I’m Just That Deal…” - Review Of Guilty Simpson’s Ode To The Ghetto
Mar 22nd
“And founders and early employees of startups, meanwhile, are like the...”
– You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss [via]
Mar 22nd
Mixwit →
Make playlist widgets that look like mixtapes. hi-tech/lo-fi?
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