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2009 Mar 20 Friday

The Notorious AIG – Congress Wants to Blame Someone | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

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Good video from Jon Stewart: The Notorious AIG – Congress Wants to Blame Someone (The Daily Show)

by Jeff @ 2:07 pm

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2009 Mar 20 Friday

Boing Boing Video’s Remix of “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” – Boing Boing

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Today’s episode of Boing Boing Video is a remixed series of snips from RiP: A Remix Manifesto, an “open source documentary” about copyright and remix culture. Yes, a remix of a remix of a remix! We’re nothing if not meta around here. Watch it! It’s good! Boing Boing Video’s Remix of “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” [...]

by Jeff @ 9:51 am

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2009 Mar 20 Friday

The Big Takeover (via Rolling Stone)

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It’s over — we’re officially, royally fucked. no empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone

by Jeff @ 9:44 am

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2009 Feb 13 Friday

secret history of the credit card: interviews: elizabeth warren (via frontline, PBS)

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…bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We’re a nation of debtors. Why do you think people left Europe to come to the United States? They left because they were in debt… frontline: secret history of the credit card: interviews: elizabeth warren | PBS

by Jeff @ 12:57 am

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2008 Aug 23 Saturday

“Flow” (via Trailer Addict)

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This documentary comes from the Beastie Boys’ film studio, Oscilloscope Pictures, but it is no concert flick. Flow is a serious investigation into a very scary global situation: water. Water sustains life, but–unlike air–it is bottled, packaged, and diverted from those who need it most, to those who can pay the most. Director Irena Salina [...]

by Jeff @ 2:00 pm

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2008 Mar 25 Tuesday

Flickr Photoset: “VENEZUELA ’08″ by Lauriet

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Some friends of mine recently went to Venezuela, or the country that Bush wants us to think is the CCCP of South America: VENEZUELA ’08 – a photoset on Flickr

by Jeff @ 11:44 pm

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2008 Feb 01 Friday

I wouldn’t steal

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Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you to watch their propaganda. They claim that [downloading movies is the same as snatching bags, stealing cars or shoplifting]. That’s simply not true – making a copy is fundamentally different from stealing. I wouldn’t steal

by Jeff @ 1:17 pm

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2008 Jan 11 Friday

Mark Malkoff Lives In IKEA

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Mark Malkoff Lives In IKEA Mark thought it would be fun and make an interesting video to move into an IKEA store where he’d live and sleep for a week. Never in a million years did he think IKEA would go for it, but miraculously they have a [sic] agreed.

by Jeff @ 2:30 pm

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2007 Aug 02 Thursday

OS ROI is FU 2 Mac h8ers

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To all you bosses that think creatives who prefer Mac OS are snobbish prima donnas: Among many other findings, the authors concluded that Mac creative professionals were producing $26,000 more each in annual revenues for their employers than their Windows counterparts. Oh, and “FUCK YOU!” Read the full article.

by Jeff @ 2:52 pm

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2007 Jul 08 Sunday

Only 1 Kwik-E-Mart in Chicago

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And it is really far away on the Southwest Side. Bummer.

by Jeff @ 1:32 pm

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