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Witness article in Reason Magazine
Friday, April 18th, 2008
The site was created by Witness, a Brooklyn-based group founded by the globe-trotting pop star Peter Gabriel in 1992. Conceived in the wake of the Rodney King beating, the group initially focused on getting camcorders into the hands of human rights activists around the world. The goal, in Gabriel’s phrase, was to create a network […]
Wishful thinking
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Please see update/correction in the comments
Two economic crises face the world today: the credit crunch resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis, and the food prices crisis precipitated by the demand for biofuels. Both are problems we should have identified and solved years ago, but didn’t. Why did we ignore the warning signs and allow ourselves […]
New drug warrior series on Spike TV
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Promo copy:
DEA agents put their lives in the hands of a drug and weapons trafficker turned informant as they mount an operation to burrow deep into Detroit’s drug underworld. Each undercover buy and daring raid brings them one step closer to a deadly showdown with a violent drug kingpin.
Radley Balko:
Or with an unarmed mother of […]
Many examples of guerilla marketing campaigns
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Guerilla Marketing presentation from Geek Graffiti class.
MTV: fascism happened
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Trevor says:
These two videos from think MTV [1] [2] are presented as a warning of what could happen in the United States of America. But they look to me like nothing so much as a depiction of what has been happening for quite some time as part of the war on drugs.
I agree. See […]
Fox News journalistic masterpieces
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Fox News. It’s hard to talk about greatest hits without mentioning their war coverage or their coverage of racial issues. As a political and cultural propaganda machine, there’s little outright funny about Fox News’s persistent distortion of reality. Or, if there is, the jokes on the people of the United States and […]
Banksy and Bristol article in the Telegraph
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
It’s not just Banksy who is getting Bristol noticed at the moment. This year sees the release of new albums by a number of Bristol bands who first came to prominence in the mid-Nineties - Portishead, Tricky and Tricky’s former collaborator Martina Topley Bird. It also looks like being an unusually busy year for Massive […]
Four other Big Brothers
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
Four other Big Brothers:
(I started this back when Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo!, but I’ve only just not gotten a chance to finish up).
We all know about the potential “Big Brother”hood of Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!. Here are four other organizations with massive databases or the potential to collect extensive personal data.
Amazon, the other data […]
Spliced 004: TV Ate Itself
Monday, March 10th, 2008
My latest column at Alterati:
By the end of David Cronenberg’s 1983 film Videodrome we find that not only is television a literal part of the body, but that this brain part can spread contagious disease: the brain tumor inducing “Videodrome signal.†This metaphor carries into reality. Television does indeed transmit a particularly destructive disease. Symptoms […]
Obama assassination, and the Clinton “body count”
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I think the threats of an Obama assassination are being drastically overblown by people who have watched too much 24 (though this is suspicious).
Those particularly concerned that the Clintons are gonna have Obama offed seem to be reading from the “Clinton Bodycount” chain e-mails that have been making rounds for over a decade. Snopes has […]
Rob Walker on Yo Gabba Gabba
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
I don’t even have kids but I still love the Yo Gabba Gabba clips I’ve seen, and so have all the other childless people I’ve forwarded the clips on to.
“Yo Gabba Gabba!†began appearing on the cable channel Nickelodeon in August, and with remarkable speed it has acquired fans who are preschoolers and fans […]
1960s Braun products compared to modern Apple products, plus gallery of other Braun products
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Full Story: Gizmodo.
(via Speedbird).
First shot fired in Google-Wikipedia, Secrecy-Transparency war
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Wikia Search launched today. So far it’s nothing much, but the plan is to grow the product over the coming years. Jimmy Wales said in a comment on TechCrunch:
When I launched Wikipedia, I wrote at the top of the first page “Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaâ€. On that day, anyone reviewing it would have laughed. What’s […]
Foreign Policy’s 10 most under reported stories of 2007
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
1. The Cyberwars Begin
2. US-Mexico Border Fence Gets Cut in Half
3. Salman al-Awdah denounces bin Laden
4. US Navy will leave Iraq when Iraqi Navy is ready to take over (ie, never)
5. More Cubans have been quietly fleeing to the United States than ever before
6. The American Heartland Grows Crops with Human Proteins
7. Thai Junta Gives […]
Best stuff I read this week
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Nine Things Which Appeared on The Muppet Show, But Wouldn’t Make It Onto Family Television These Days.
Two interviews with Thirtyseven/Justin Boland.
Micronations and autonomous zones covered in new book.
Best stuff I read this week
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Since I tend to post a flood of links both here and at Technoccult, some of wich I haven’t even read, I thought it might be useful both for readers and for myself to offer a list of the very best things I read each week.
Brother Theodore is Dead, a Brother Theodore obituary by Nick […]
Exterminators: the front line in the human/insect war
Monday, September 17th, 2007
New piece by me on Alterati:
“Total chemical warfare against insects.â€
That’s one of many proposals from Otto Muehl’s nihilistic ZOCK Manifesto. It’s the sort of thing most environmentalists would, at best, scoff at (or, at worst, give you a several hour lecture on the importance of biodiversity in ecosystems). In college, I once knew a guy […]