January 2010
122 posts
“During the years that I was on faculty at the University of Chicago, my graduate...”
– From “The Obama I Remember” by Melissa Harris-Lacewell at The Nation (via marthaq)
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Stephin Merritt Writing Score to 20,000 Leagues...
twentyfourbit:
Magnetic Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt is busy plotting a new synth-heavy record, prepping a documentary, and heading out on tour to support the release of Realism this week, but his calendar isn’t quite packed yet: “I’m working on a score for the 1917 silent film version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Merritt told Exclaim, adding later: “I’m going to try to musicalize it...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
The Mountain Goats (26)
David Bowie (24)
Heavy (20)
Hot Chip (11)
St. Vincent (11)
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The Setup →
The setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews.
What do people use to get the job done?
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Django Reinhardt: Ain’t...
Call for halt to Haiti adoptions over traffickers... →
I can’t begin to express how disturbing this is.
abbyjean:
Thousands of children unaccounted for since Haiti’s earthquake are at risk of falling prey to child traffickers, aid agencies have warned, as fears were raised over at least 15 children who have vanished from hospitals within the past few days.
Unicef, the UN children’s agency, warned that “traffickers fish in pools of...
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News University: Journalism Training. Online... →
News University is one of the world’s most innovative online journalism training programs ever created. From multimedia techniques to writing and reporting, we’ve got more than 85 courses to help manage your career. As the e-learning project of The Poynter Institute, NewsU extends Poynter’s mission as a school for journalists, future journalists and teachers of journalism.
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Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Assistance Network: CMLP launched its Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers from across the country with online journalists and digital media creators who need legal help. Lawyers participating in OMLN will provide qualifying online publishers with pro bono and reduced fee legal assistance on a broad range of...
Doesn’t get much better than this.
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lizzie-beth:
Elliott Smith -...
Yup. One hell of a song.
catnipforhipsters:
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Things I find Hilarious: Progressives railing on...
notthatkindagay:
Apparently gay marriage, medical marijuana, and universal health care are now Right Wing politics.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Heavy (45)
My Morning Jacket (25)
The Dodos (18)
The Antlers (18)
Band of Horses (10)
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I really must tweak the CSS on this Tumblr theme. I really like it, but there’s just a bit too much vertical space between lines.
US cloaks case files involving civil rights - The... →
Part of the problem, many researchers say, is that unless they know which specific documents to request there is little chance of success, and as a result there needs to be an alternate mechanism along the lines of what Kerry is advocating for King files.
They insist that what the government knew at the time about widespread racial violence could be crucial in solving some murders, such as the...
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“FACT: Democrats outnumber Republicans by 2 to 1 in Massachusetts. The only way...”
– Top 10 reasons why Massachusetts Democrats should vote on Tuesday: « Shoq Value
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Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full...
Nightmarish flashbacks to Hurricane Katrina. This is so maddening.
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doctorswithoutborders:
Port-au-Prince/Paris /New York, 17 January 2009—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital...
“This is the state of news. Real time direct reports from people at the scene...”
– Off On A Tangent: Haiti Photo: Home is all rubble now. How it spread from a cellphone, to twitpic, to twitter, to Getty, AFP and more.
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Don't Talk Crazy (Again)
I first heard Mark Mulcahy’s music three and a half years ago, at a live performance in Somerville, MA. I was blown away by the songs and by his performances of them and have been a huge fan ever since. A couple of months after the show I found an mp3 of one of the songs that I’d heard and I just had to blog it. I wrote:
A ways into the set Mulcahy took his hands off his guitar...
WatchHaitian Ambassador shames Pat Robertson on Rachel Maddow Show
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Timber Timbre (56)
Heavy (39)
Maktub (26)
David Bowie (23)
Sufjan Stevens (21)
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The Truth About iPhone Screen Repair
benjaminstein:
My wife’s iPhone G3 screen shattered a couple weeks ago. It was still usable, but tough to read the screen.
I set out to fix / get it fixed. What I found was so much misinformation that I just want to set the record straight.
Here are your current options for fixing a screen:
iPhone screen repair by Apple costs $199.
A myriad of 3rd party vendors who will replace it for...
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