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2011 Sep 20 Tuesday

Architecture: Is it for people or for cameras?

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Where in Valencia would you rather hang out…? Here?: VALENCIA – Plaza de la Verge Or here?: VALENCIA – Città delle Arti e delle Scienze

by Jeff @ 12:39 am

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2010 Mar 22 Monday

Malcolm Gladwell on human potential (via PopTech)

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Why this guy (and people like him) aren’t our policy makers I’ll never understand. This speech is inspiring because its grounded in science and tells us how much better we can be without beating us over the head with our failures: Pop sociologist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell has honed in on a profound new [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:06 pm

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2009 Sep 28 Monday

“LRAD Sound Cannon Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters – LRAD Sound Canon Pittsburgh G20 protesters” (via Gizmodo)

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Disgusting. LRAD Sound Cannon Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters (via Gizmodo)

by Dr. Agonize @ 5:34 pm

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2009 Sep 10 Thursday

It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies (via Boing Boing)

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It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies (via Boing Boing)

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:06 pm

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2009 Sep 04 Friday

DataSmut: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins

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Wired has a very cool little article that visualizes each “sin” on a map of our great nation: We’re gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust). American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:26 pm

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2009 Aug 31 Monday

Art directing for Wired

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From Andrew Heatherington’s blog, this is an interview with creative director Scott Dadich of Wired magazine, who recently produced the cover and featured article photos of Wired’s “New Rules” issue…in which Brad Pitt demonstrates several very modern faux pas. wired to the new rules (via whats the jackanory?)

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:57 pm

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2009 Aug 30 Sunday

DataSmut: New Orleans since Katrina – (via CNN.com)

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Wired has Inforporn, and now we have DataSmut. It’s rare that the media updates us on how the government is fixing New Orleans, so I’d like to thank CNN for this very un-abstracted visualization of post-Hurricane Katrina civil engineering projects: Charting New Orleans’ progress since Katrina (via CNN.com)

by Dr. Agonize @ 10:22 pm

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2009 Aug 25 Tuesday

TIME catches wind of news that cheap food is bad for you

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We’ve been hearing about the medical cost of eating cheap food from our mothers for decades, and from Morgan Spurlock since 2004. Book-movies like “Fast Food Nation” and “Food, Inc.” have delved into the environmental effects of cheap food from how mega-farming poisons our land and threatens genetic diversity, to the working conditions that endanger [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:01 pm

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2009 Aug 19 Wednesday

Scalia’s Catholic Betrayal (via The Daily Beast)

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Alan Dershowitz writes a scathing article about the recent dissenting opinions of Justices Scalia and Thomas on a Death Row case: Surely it is among the worst sins, under Catholic teaching, to kill an innocent human being intentionally. Yet that is precisely what Scalia would authorize under his skewed view of the United States Constitution [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 3:28 pm

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2009 Aug 19 Wednesday

Barney Frank shuts down a health care protester

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I love how Rep. Barney Frank lives up to his name: “Ma’am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.” Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Town Hall Comparing Obama To Hitler The Conservative protesters at the recent town hall meetings [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 3:08 pm

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