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GLOBAL WAR ABOLITION MOVEMENT MEETS IN JAPAN
via UNDERNEWS by TPR on June 03, 2008
ALICE SLATER, COMMON DREAMSAfter World War II, the victorious allied powers, implementing a transition to democracy in Japan, required Japan to forego any future aggressive military action by including a provision in their new Constitution to renounce war and the threat or use of force. But by 1950, following the outbreak of the Korean War, when US General MacArthur ordered the establishment of a...
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Clever roller coaster animation for Zuerich Chamber Orchestra
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on June 03, 2008
Today, Very Short List presented a terrific promotion for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra. The sheet-music staff for the last minute of the fourth movement of Beethoven student Ferdinand Ries’s Second Symphony — those five lines on which the clef signs and notes and rests sit — becomes a roller coaster. As the music builds steam, so does the coaster-cam P.O.V. pick up speed, taking hair-pin...
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BANKSY GOES TO THE WEST BANK
via UNDERNEWS by TPR on May 28, 2008
BANKSY TAKES ON THE WEST BANK WALL STORY
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SWAMPOODLE REPORT
via UNDERNEWS by TPR on May 27, 2008
Sam SmithIf Obama is elected, by next January we will have had three presidents in a row who - if our laws had been equitably enforced - might easily have been convicted felons. Obama has admitted drug use including cocaine, and there is a high likelihood that both Bush and Clinton used cocaine as well as pot. Being a convicted felon is not a constitutional bar to the presidency but in many...
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The Costs of Empire
via Jon Taplin's Blog by Jon Taplin on May 27, 2008
While on vacation I read Joseph Tainter’s, The Collapse of Complex Societies. In it he looks at the late Roman Empire, the Mayan and the Chacoan (Arizona Indian) civilizations. His basic thesis is rather simple and elegant.human societies are problem-solving organizations;sociopolitical systems require energy for their maintenance;increased complexity carries with it increased costs per...
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RECOVERED HISTORY: DISCOVERING THE SUN
via UNDERNEWS by TPR on May 26, 2008
MECHANIX ILLUSTRATED, 1955 - Last Fall, the National Industrial Conference Board brought together a group of businessmen in New York City to thrash out the question of just how the sun’s great energy, free but elusive, could be trapped for commercial use. One of the chief speakers was octogenarian Charles G. Abbot, secretary emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and a...
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Surveillance sign's Freudian slip
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 22, 2008
børge says: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks has this great photo of a sign reading "Images are being recorded for the purpose of 'crime prevention' and 'public safety' and may be shared with third parties."Is this a way to admit that the stated goals of the increasing surveillance in society is mostly bull, or is it just a Freudian slip?Link
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HP Smart Web Printing Saves Tons of Paper [Featured Windows Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 19, 2008
Windows only: Freeware application HP Smart Web Printing combines clips from any number of web pages into one page, so you don't have to print five different pages of filler to get one page worth of information. The tool—which despite its HP origins works with any printer—integrates directly with both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so clipping text, images, or any part of a page is as...
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Bill Gross Speaks–We Listen
via Jon Taplin's Blog by Jon Taplin on May 22, 2008
Readers of this blog know I have a high regard for Bill Gross who runs a few hundred billion of bonds for PIMCO. This month he points out that the changes made to the calculation of the Consumer Price Index by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the 1990’s, have led to a delusional view of inflation in the U.S. not shared by the rest of the world. Ostensibly these changes were made so that social...
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Technologies That Connect
via The Technium by (author unknown) on May 22, 2008
Every month the Long Now foundation hosts its Seminar on Long-Term Thinking. I serve as a sort of co-host, winnowing questions from the audience to the speaker. This month's speaker was Iqbal Quadir, formerly at Harvard and now at MIT. I met Iqbal at least 10 years ago and have been following his adventures in changing the world one cell phone at a time. Iqbal's talk focused on how...
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