January 2011
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Watching the Story as it Unfolds
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In a stunning turn of events in Alexandria, one pitched battle ended with protesters and police shaking hands and sharing water bottles on the same street corner where minutes before they were exchanging hails of stones and tear-gas canisters were arcing through the sky. Thousands stood on the six-lane coastal road then sank to their knees and prayed.
Hopefully stunning...
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“One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the...”
– Eric Schmidt (via azspot)
Some really fascinating, and downright ridiculous quotes if you click through to the article. Gizmodo’s got some more.
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iTunes Dumbass Mixes
So I just accidentally clicked on iTunes’ “Genius Mixes” option for the first time, and figured I’d try one of them out. Apparently, iTunes thinks that El Ten Eleven, Laura Stevenson & The Cans, and Bomb the Music Industry classify as “Mainstream Rock”.
What the fuck, iTunes. I don’t think I could’ve come up with a better list of artists that...
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Ted Williams and the Triumph of American Dream... →
In a country whose social class mobility has now dropped below many fellow (and often “socialist”) industrialized nations, Williams is being implicitly promoted by our media as a representative example of how the American Dream still exists. I say it is implicit because, of course, none of the media promoting the story comes out and says exactly this. But the very fact that this has become such...
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