January 2009
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animal collective - for reverend green
the light...
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In the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King began devoting far more of his efforts and attention to emphatically (even radically) opposing the war in Vietnam than almost any other issue. As a result, he was criticized, even by his own supporters, on the ground that his anti-war efforts were a distraction from, even at odds with, his work on racial equality and social justice. In an April, 1967 speech...
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Although his presidency is barely a week old, some of Mr. Obama’s work habits are already becoming clear. He shows up at the Oval Office shortly before 9 in the morning, roughly two hours later than his early-to-bed, early-to-rise predecessor. Mr. Obama likes to have his workout — weights and cardio — first thing in the morning, at 6:45. (Mr. Bush slipped away to exercise midday.)
He reads...
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It could be argued with some justice that the economic tailspin and the need to clean up the mess left behind by the Bush administration preclude new government initiatives. What made Obama electable in the first place, however, besides his formidable political gifts, was precisely his conservatism, his intention to restore and renew, but not to revolutionise America. Bush was a reactionary who...
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Freaky Best Man Speech
ummm…thanks for that auntie
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Though the ungrammaticality of split verbs is an urban legend, it found its way into The Texas Law Review Manual on Style, which is the arbiter of usage for many law review journals. James Lindgren, a critic of the manual, has found that many lawyers have “internalized the bogus rule so that they actually believe that a split verb should be avoided,” adding, “The Invasion of the Body Snatchers has...
My helpful microbe helps me eat my vegetables when I am too full.
Can give me my medicine and makes me better again.
My philanthropist microbe, helps clean the city and donates to the funds.
Cures human beings’ cancer, helps and cures other microbes.
EXCERPTS FROM A COLLECTION OF MICROBIAL RENGAS
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Watchmany of those that fear/hate any form of American nationalization are the same that support the last administration’s FISA/NSA programs. that smells of post cold war hypocrisy.
this shit is scary, and scary that this isnt a huge deal.
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fear mongering
this article seems to have catalyzed another round of GOP fear mongering and factlessness in an attempt to keep gitmo open and jack bauer our role model. yet, as shown below, we have quite a successful history of trying and imprisoning terrorists and international murderers within our borders.
Both before and after 9/11, the U.S. has repeatedly and successfully tried alleged high-level Al Qaeda...
…what we seem to have here is evidence of a fundamental failure of the Web as an information-delivery service. Three things have happened, in a blink of history’s eye: (1) a single medium, the Web, has come to dominate the storage and supply of information, (2) a single search engine, Google, has come to dominate the navigation of that medium, and (3) a single information source,...
hot charged particles
time lapse captures of the aurora borealis
John Thain is a scumbag
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The cutting edge of robotics
via Mind Hacks
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During World War II, George Orwell was unable to find a publishing house willing to publish Animal Farm, and several of them acknowledged that it was because they were uncomfortable with the provocative content (i.e., what they perceived as being criticism of Stalin at a time when the West considered the Russians a crucial ally). In a proposed Preface to the book which he wrote years later,...
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How I Made a 1,474-Megapixel Photo During... →
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bon iver - blood bank
cant get me enough of this...
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Watch
“i don’t know what makes me angrier here, the copyright infringement, or the fact that those beats were so jawdroppin’ earpopin’ fresh”
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the text of today’s executive orders
via Andrew Sullivan
Watchcatsinbagbagsinriver:
soupsoup:
George Mitchell discusses the next President (this was pre-Obama starting his term) & the first 100 days: Iraq, Israel & Palestine, on The Big Think.
An Indian dream turns to nightmare →
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