October 2009
Remembering my mom's criteria for a Halloween...
petervidani:
Is it warm?
bijan:
The Fake Headlines - The New...
short-pants-romance:
snakecharmer:
bob dylan -...
blondesnotbombs:
sixbucks:
Nick Cave & The...
Spike Jonze & Friends Drop Free Mixtape, Feat....
twentyfourbit:
Arcade Fire’s partially re-recorded version of “Wake Up” pulled on all of our heartstrings recently in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer, but the song isn’t actually in the film, you see, nor is it on Karen O and the Kids’ official soundtrack.
No worries, though, director Spike Jonze feels your pain: The trailer version of “Wake Up” and 19 other jams are available for free...
California gives the poor a new legal right --... →
abbyjean:
California is embarking on an unprecedented civil court experiment to pay for attorneys to represent poor litigants who find themselves battling powerful adversaries in vital matters affecting their livelihoods and families. The program is the first in the nation to recognize a right to representation in key civil cases and provide it for people fighting eviction, loss of child...
un:
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Michael Jackson - Beat It...
“Up until now, if you wanted to use Google Voice, you needed to choose a new...”
– Official Google Blog: Use Google Voice with your existing number (via creativesage)
This is huge—though if you’re like me, and already have a gvoice account—there is not a direct way to just switch the account number over to one that you’d like port into gvoice. You can only change your...
Tweepi :: a geekier, faster way to bulk add... →
creativesage:
“Tweepi - the first and only Twitter Follow Management with stats… We’re starting with some tools to allow you to clean up your Twitter account from spammers and deadbeat users, as well as make…
SourceWatch →
blondesnotbombs:
Good to know.
sostark:
A wiki on the various the sources behind front groups and organizations that buy ads and release phony studies for political reasons. Helpful in making sense of anti-healthcare ads and figuring out who funded the studies they pass off as truth.
catnipforhipsters:
copycats:
Take On Me by AC...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-10-25) →
The Mountain Goats (25)
Califone (14)
Smoke (13)
The Autumn Defense (2)
Joe Purdy (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America. →
retropolitics:
igather:
Searching through America’s past for the last 25 years, collector James Allen uncovered an extraordinary visual legacy: photographs and postcards taken as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America. With essays by Hilton Als, Leon Litwack, Congressman John Lewis and James Allen, these photographs have been published as a...
“Different social media spaces have different norms. You may not be able to...”
– apophenia: Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates (via funsize) (via soupsoup)
What’s funny is that Twitter basically just took an idea from AOL 4.0 where you could update your “status”… which around 1999 turned to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM or iChat) where you updated your status at...
A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet... →
shaneguiter:
To mark the 40th anniversary of the first stirrings of the internet we asked you to tell us your experiences of life online.
Wake up America - you've been played! →
thesmarttart:
retropolitics:
Raw Story: Pentagon used psych ops on Americans
New blog
caterpillarcowboy:
jonsteinberg:
I’m now posting my long form blog on wordpress at jonsteinberg.com
I reverted this Tumblr to jonsteinberg.Tumblr.com and will use it for mre Tumblr-like short stuff and reblogging
This is a trend that is going to continue, I suspect, as is the number of people who have social media for their business and their personal lives. Which makes me wonder if we...
morningpaperblow:
Morning Has Broken | Cat...
FCC Votes To Begin Crafting 'Net Neutrality' Rules... →
shaneguiter:
Federal regulators took an important step Thursday toward prohibiting broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain kinds of Internet traffic.
Despite the concerns of the telecommunications industry and the agency’s two Republicans, the Federal Communications Commission voted to begin writing so-called “network neutrality” regulations to prevent phone and...
HUD Opening Family Housing to Gays | News |... →
Dig it.
adayinboston:
Very good news!
whiskeyandgoatsmilk:
Bob Dylan- moonshiner
i’ve...
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So Psyched to Be Going to This Tomorrow Night
Califone All My Friends Are Funeral Singers Thursday, October 22, 9:00 PM The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Harvard Square Cambridge, 02138 General admission $18.00
“(Califone) is bluesy and soulful without reverting to revivalist shtick and experimental without relying on blind cut-and-pasting”. - Pitchfork
“It’s a strange balancing act that Rutili and crew capably pull off,...
Revealing Mac OS X's Hidden Single-Application... →
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