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nedhepburn: The Bad PlusSmells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:03:41 -0500

nedhepburn:

The Bad Plus
Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana cover

Jazzy!

nedhepburn: Batman’s Night Out.

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:34:27 -0500

nedhepburn:

Batman’s Night Out.

I’m always amazed when people I meet have actually heard...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:50:29 -0500

I’m always amazed when people I meet have actually heard of SOAS. When I say always I mean those two times.

cputv: “The BBC tracks down an internet troll (of the worst...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:39:46 -0500

cputv:

“The BBC tracks down an internet troll (of the worst variety) and confronts him on the street.” I haven’t even watched this and I’m already sharing.

Woke up to this view out my window!

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:47:12 -0500

Woke up to this view out my window!

Manhattan island looking down from the northern tip

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:27:37 -0500

Manhattan island looking down from the northern tip

Getting on the N train at Atlantic Avenue, on the way into...

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:03:34 -0500

Getting on the N train at Atlantic Avenue, on the way into Manhattan, I see this fashionable man and quickly snap a cell phone photo.

"The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically..."

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:57:23 -0500

“The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry. To date, the leading role the US has played in this infrastructure has been fairly uncontroversial because America is seen as a trustworthy arbiter and a neutral bastion of free expression. If the US begins to use its central position in the network for censorship that advances its political and economic agenda, the consequences will be far-reaching and destructive.”

- An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via emmawelles)

xkcd: An ‘American tradition’ is anything that happened to a...

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:52:23 -0500

xkcd:

An ‘American tradition’ is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice.

Woah chart

oats: Reblog to donate $5 to Archive.org — I (oats) will donate...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:49:40 -0500

oats:

Reblog to donate $5 to Archive.org — I (oats) will donate $5 for each reblog of this picture and the complete message below up to $1,500 to the Internet Archive. (sponsored by my side project Airborne LCDs)

Relevant Links: must include with your reblog!

About the Internet Archive

First Tumblr Home Page saved on the Internet Archive from 5 Jan 2007

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More Information (why I’m doing this, reblog status, etc)

Wikipedia Page on Internet Archive

Powdered Toast Man

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:04:30 -0500

Powdered Toast Man

"Gouging and exploiting may be perfect for humiliating your siblings, but they’re not so great..."

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:10:00 -0500

“Gouging and exploiting may be perfect for humiliating your siblings, but they’re not so great for relaxing with friends”

- Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre

Naomi Wolf nails it as usual

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:55:46 -0500

But wait: why on earth would Congress advise violent militarised reactions against its own peaceful constituents? The answer is straightforward: in recent years, members of Congress have started entering the system as members of the middle class (or upper middle class) – but they are leaving DC privy to vast personal wealth, as we see from the “scandal” of presidential contender Newt Gingrich’s having been paid $1.8m for a few hours’ “consulting” to special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers who turn lobbyists are common knowledge, but the notion that congressmen and women are legislating their own companies’ profits is less widely known – and if the books were to be opened, they would surely reveal corruption on a Wall Street spectrum. Indeed, we do already know that congresspeople are massively profiting from trading on non-public information they have on companies about which they are legislating – a form of insider trading that sent Martha Stewart to jail.

Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and infiltrated, it is likely that the Department of Homeland Security and police informers are aware, before Occupy itself is, what its emerging agenda is going to look like. If legislating away lobbyists’ privileges to earn boundless fees once they are close to the legislative process, reforming the banks so they can’t suck money out of fake derivatives products, and, most critically, opening the books on a system that allowed members of Congress to profit personally – and immensely – from their own legislation, are two beats away from the grasp of an electorally organised Occupy movement … well, you will call out the troops on stopping that advance.

So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a battle in which members of Congress, with the collusion of the American president, sent violent, organised suppression against the people they are supposed to represent. Occupy has touched the third rail: personal congressional profits streams. Even though they are, as yet, unaware of what the implications of their movement are, those threatened by the stirrings of their dreams of reform are not.

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

Morning commute.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:10:50 -0500

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

Morning commute.

shortformblog: Tumblr just put up this site warning people...

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:14:16 -0500

shortformblog:

Tumblr just put up this site warning people about the dangers of PROTECT-IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read up, kids. This is important.

First day at work!

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:59:02 -0500

First day at work!

"Yes. I would return to that policy. I don’t see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation..."

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:14:27 -0500

““Yes. I would return to that policy. I don’t see it as torture. I see it as an enhanced interrogation technique.””

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Herman Cain, asked about waterboarding at tonight’s GOP debate.

Michele Bachmann gave a similar answer: “if I were president I would use waterboarding” (via).

Has either one of the candidates been present for the waterboarding they’re so anxious to resume? Certainly not.

For my part, I recommend that everyone watch the following video:

This, I think, is a tame demonstration of what is clearly torture.

Luckily, neither Cain nor Bachmann have any chance of becoming the next President of the United States. Their desire to torture people should be enough to disqualify them.

(via kohenari)

Watch the Christopher Hitchens video.

My favorite IKEA cardboard space filler ever.

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:13:35 -0500

My favorite IKEA cardboard space filler ever.

Craigslist Apartment Search Facts

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:01:11 -0500

1 out of 5 emails sent are responded to at all
most of those lead to an actual viewing
4 out of 5 viewings range from underwhelming to absolute crap
1 out of 5 viewings are actually decent

Conclusion: send 50 emails. 20% will be responded to, of which 20% will be decent places, leads to a choice between 2 apartments. Great.

Apartment hunting in Brooklyn can be dangerous!

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:45:06 -0500

Apartment hunting in Brooklyn can be dangerous!