Monthly Archives: September 2008

links for 2008-09-30

Activision CEO: Labels Should Owe Guitar Hero, Not Reverse | Listening Post from Wired.com
(tags: music games)

George W. Bush doesn't care what economists think
(tags: economics politics)

Facebook hires Alberto Gonzales's former chief of staff
(tags: politics tech web2.0)

Today's USA is the USSR of the 1980s
(tags: politics humor)

Systems that Enable the Future We Want
(tags: environment)

Creative Japanese barcodes

More: Weird Asia News
(via Grinding)

links for 2008-09-29

CommUnity Arts Garage
(tags: portland)

Current TV Hacks The Debates | Threat Level from Wired.com
(tags: politics tv media web2.0)

Django for non-programmers
(tags: programming design software)

links for 2008-09-26

Texas court refuses to remove McCain and Obama from ballot
weak.
(tags: politics 2008 mccain obama barr)

the horror of tech conferences
(tags: tech)

Quick IE6 Fixes - Webmonkey
(tags: web design reference)

For rent: Reversible Destiny Lofts

More pics: Pink Tentacle

“In Case Of Civil Unrest…”

(via Wooster)

links for 2008-09-25

Man charged with battery for farting near cop
(tags: police)

links for 2008-09-24

Tiction: Animated, Nodal Generative Music App in Progress, in Processing
(tags: music generative)

Apply to have the government buy your "distressed assets"
(tags: politics economics humor)

Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama is an Arab
"Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood? He’s Arab. You know, he’s from Africa. He’s from Arab parts of Africa. … [H]e’s not […]

links for 2008-09-22

Chuck Baldwin - Wikipedia
(tags: ronpaul politics race 2008)

Ron Paul endorses Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for president
(tags: politics 2008 ronpaul race)

Comparing the current financial crisis to Japan's 90s crisis
(tags: economics global)

Study Ties Wage Disparities To Outlook on Gender Roles
(tags: psychology labor gender feminism economics)

In hard times, tent cities rise across the country - USNews.com: […]

Immortal Technique: The 3rd World


links for 2008-09-19

Designing Better Conferences

links for 2008-09-18

Comic book recalls
(tags: comics)

David Cronenberg interviewed by R.U. Sirius
(tags: cronenberg body film)

Demystifying Sound Design: 15 Online Learning Resources for Film, Games, and More
(tags: sounddesign music)

Audio Cookbook
(tags: music sounddesign)

links for 2008-09-16

Camille Paglia on Sarah Pallin
(tags: politics palin feminism gender 2008)

altmuslim - global perspectives on Muslim life, politics, and culture
(tags: religion politics media immigration)

Generator.x: Software and generative strategies in art and design
(tags: generative software programming music media art)

links for 2008-09-15

Portland band takes on West Coast tour by bike
(tags: energy bikes music)

The 65-mpg car Ford won't sell in US
(tags: cars energy business)

Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
(tags: politics palin 2008 mccain)

Freewheeling - open source live loop mixing software for Ubuntu
(tags: software opensource music)

Interview wtih Martin Atkins re: his punk in China documentary
(tags: music […]

links for 2008-09-14

Hackers infiltrate Large Hadron Collider systems and mock IT security
Hackers have mounted an attack on the Large Hadron Collider, raising concerns about the security of the biggest experiment in the world
(tags: security tech science)

U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity
A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define […]

links for 2008-09-13

Lots of photos from the national conventions
(tags: politics photography activism police policestate fascism)

7 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be a Male Porn Star (NSFW)
(tags: sex porn)

links for 2008-09-12

The Right to be Here
They looked at me like I was an idiot for getting involved. I don't know how to explain that either, but I believe it in my core. I didn’t go to protest, or for any other reason but for the right to be there. And the fact that nobody seemed to […]

links for 2008-09-11

Brazil, Argentina to eliminate US dollar
(tags: global economicss)

links for 2008-09-10

Jeff Vail - Rhizome Template in the Amazon?
(tags: history culture theory)

High Times > TOP TEN COUNTERCULTURE COLLEGES
(tags: olympia evergreen education culture)

links for 2008-09-09

Not your Standard FEMA trailer - Core77
(tags: architecture design)

Greg Palast: How Rove May Have Already Stolen the 2008 Election
(tags: voting politics 2008)

Mondoweiss: Report: '60 Minutes' Cut Ahmadinejad's Statement, 'Solution Is Democracy' in Israel/Palestine
(tags: politics media israel censorship global)