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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:10:04 -0800

Play Plaque Attack(1983)(Activision) Online [Atari 2600] @ The SmartAss - The Best Way To Waste Your Time!
classic
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:08:06 -0800

The Clapper | Mark Fiore's Animated Cartoon Site
Turn capitalism on when things are good; turn socialism on when it goes bad
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:05:27 -0800

Acumen Fund | A New Solution to Poverty that Makes a Lasting Difference
Strategy: Invest in seed companies that will grow and provide empowering tools to poor people
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:57:10 -0800

Amazon.com: New Rules for the New Economy (9780140280609): Kevin Kelly: Books
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:52:00 -0800

Andy Beckett: The forgotten story of Chile's 'socialist internet' | Technology | The Guardian
When Pinochet's military overthrew the Chilean government 30 years ago, they discovered a revolutionary communication system, a 'socialist internet' connecting the whole country. Its creator? An eccentric scientist from Surrey. Andy...
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:16:46 -0800

Who Killed Jdimytai Damour? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
I’ve had a difficult time during this Thanksgiving weekend to get my mind around the tragic trampling of Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour. Did people keep shopping? Did the Valley Stream store make any sales before the police closed it down? Who put...
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:10:47 -0800

ManyWorlds Knowledge Asset - Environmentalism by Frank Furedi
“Discontentment is historically a positive virtue that has driven the human imagination. The problem with the consumer society is not that it makes us too ambitious but that it confines ambition to the sphere of consumption.”
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Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:35:26 -0800

Amazon.com: The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos (9781403975799): Ravi Batra: Books
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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:39:24 -0800

Millions Will Starve as Rich Nations Cut Food Aid Funding, Warns UN http://bit.ly/6RrcVw
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:48:31 -0800

#todayilearned that more than 1 in 100 adults are incarcerated in the United States (aka Land of the Free :)
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:05:15 -0800

The oil we eat: Following the food chain back to Iraq—By Richard Manning (Harper's Magazine)
It takes thirty-five calories of fossil fuel to make a calorie of beef this way; sixty-eight to make one calorie of pork.
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:48:42 -0800

Playlist | | The Only Prescription...
OMG!!! Paydirt!
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:41:44 -0800

Transition Culture
How might our response to peak oil and climate change look more like a party than a protest march? This site explores the emerging transition model in its many manifestations
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:14:25 -0800

The lumberjack was exhausted. I suggested he take a break to sharpen his saw. "Well, I don't have time to sharpen the saw, I'm busy sawing!"
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:03:13 -0800

Find Your Voice
(6) Speak to the healthy part of the person. Maybe your audience has bought some propaganda, or maybe they are wounded and acting out a trauma. Don't talk to those parts. Don't fight with them, don't sympathize with them, don't...
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:47:53 -0800

How to help someone use a computer
Computer people are fine human beings, but they do a lot of harm in the ways they "help" other people with their computer problems. Now that we're trying to get everyone online, I thought it might be helpful to write down everything...
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:23:17 -0800

Amazon.com: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (9781596914698): Pierre Bayard: Books
I won't read this book, but trust that I'll tell you all about it.
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:21:38 -0800

Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers
"The New Atheists will not let us off the hook simply because we are not doctrinaire believers. They condemn not just belief in God but respect for belief in God."
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:13:36 -0800

' Atheism is the new fundamentalism' by Debate - Intelligence Squared - RichardDawkins.net : Pharyngula
from the comments: "As atheism grows as a movement (is that the right word?) and more and more people consider themselves atheists, more and more assholes will also consider themselves atheists."
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Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:43:53 -0800

Bootstrapping Complexity - a remix of Kevin Kelly's "Out of Control"
a leaner version
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:39:38 -0800

Disciplinary Bubbles (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
Like other bubbles, disciplinary bubbles are difficult to pop. Imagine you do research outside their incorrect assumptions. Your research will simply be marginalized and ignored — you don’t get into the conferences or the journals, it’s just not...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:02:58 -0800

Amazon.com: Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life (9780142003138): Roger-Pol Droit: Books
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:44:39 -0800

Spotify Makes Us Hungry for Playlists - BlackBook
Reincarnations of Webjay - playlist.com, blip.fm, 8tracks...
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:41:43 -0800

Radio Userland is going down
A few relevant links I found
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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:25:59 -0800

The Greek word "idiotes" originally designated "someone who lived an individual life, unconcerned with larger affairs." http://bit.ly/711T3T
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