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An amazing artist and musician called Rammellzee has shuffled off his mortal coil. Investigate his legacy for yourself: you will be shocked by the breadth and depth of his influence, and also by his obscurity to the mainstream. You will not be disappointed. Experience his work at GOTHICFUTURISM.com. Here are more articles and resources for [...]
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Ever watched Glee? Me neither. It’s a show about high school on FOX that consistently shows students violating copyright law. Is this hypocrisy? Or is FOX involved in a back-door strategy to shift the world of intellectual property law towards the Creative Commons approach? Christina Mulligan writes an interesting bit about that very conflict: These [...]
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The New York Times has a kick ass group of info graphics to help you visualize the BP oil spill… Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico – Interactive Map – NYTimes.com.
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I was searching for some free data visualization software (to create “mind maps” of my hair-brained schemes), and I found tableau software. One of the demos of their software is a data visualization of graffiti incidents and resolution actions in NYC. This is obviously intended as a tool for the city to track crime and [...]
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In Photos: Two months later, the oil still flows – Yahoo! News.
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My first foray into political website making has proved a success! Hooray!!!!! The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators has won the seats they were running for (including president) in the Chicago Teachers Union election. Congratulations to everyone at CORE! The website (CORETeachers.com) uses a fully customized WordPress theme (based on Sandbox). …and the winner is, – [...]
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This is a great talk about the possible effects of Internet-based transparency on war with Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and brought down Richard Nixon (You will have to wade through the first 10 minutes of audio glitches while they try Skype-ing with Julian Assange): Video: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and [...]
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Mr. Erlinder, 62, is charged with denying Rwanda’s genocide and threatening national security through his writings and speeches. Rwanda’s government argues that Mr. Erlinder’s work can “instigate riots” and “civil disobediences,” but it seems that many of the statements that the Rwandan government finds objectionable are actually part of Mr. Erlinder’s work as a lawyer [...]
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