October 2011
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Marina & the Diamonds
— Radioactive...
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'I have no more poetry in me' →
Javier Sicilia is a leading Mexican poet, but when his son was murdered, he stopped writing and took to the streets to campaign against the drug-fuelled violence spreading through his country.
From the Guardian.
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How to be a truly authentic person - 'Learning to...
A BBC blog post by Adam Curtis, illustrated with archive clips from TV.
Everywhere on television today people hug and burst into tears. It happens in drama a lot - but it has completely taken over factual programmes too. It usually comes at the end when the characters finally realise that they should express their true feelings. And they do this by crying and hugging everyone in sight.
It is...
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Walking into the premiere eating wings is perfect... →
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Glass Candy
— Beatific
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“I came to São Paulo in 1953. I landed at Santos, and when I stepped off the...”
– My taxi driver yesterday morning, on the way to the Ministry of Labour.
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“We pile up digital possessions and expressions, and we tend to leave them piled...”
– Cyberspace When You’re Dead - NYTimes.com
via untanglingtheweb
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O Rappa
— Minha alma
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is re-elected for a... →
Speaking in the last few minutes as the result was confirmed, she spoke of her late husband and former President, Néstor Kirchner: “This is a strange day for me - if I said I was happy I’d be lying. Yes, I’m sad too”.
But “I’m speaking not as his widow but as his comrade in political activism our entire lives.”
Image here by Paul Byrne, @byrnepaulj
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Speculation aside, empirical data on the... →
19 October 2011 by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie
New Scientist, issue 2835
The work, to be published in PloS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships. Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to...
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Cibelle
— Deixa
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WatchLove this: cool and joyful Centro of São Paulo video for the song ‘Andei’, by Lurdez da Luz (film by João Solda). It was nominated for best video at this week’s MTV Brasil music awards.
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Occupy Sao Paulo report, October 18, 2011
by Paula Z. Segal, on Occupy Writers
La luta continua, hasta siempre…
The judge says that this movement doesn’t exist but they are here now, and the fourth General Assembly of Occupy Sao Paulo is unfolding under the Tea Bridge (the viaduto de cha”), within sight of City Hall. There are about a hundred people milling about and a circle, hand signals, a communication station, a projector showing...
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The Fall
— Telephone thing
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Balkan Beat Box
— Pachima
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Brazil's Minister of Sport Accused of Corruption «... →
Yesterday, Veja - a popular Brazilian magazine which has broken a number of recent government corruption scandals - released an interview with a Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB) representative that accuses Minister Orlando Silva of receiving payoffs from a scheme designed to ripoff a non-profit.
Initial arrests from The Second Half program began last year, when five were arrested for...
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"Dear Occupy Wall Street Protesters" →
Stay leaderless and anonymous. It appeared at first that not having a leader, a single face people could relate to, would be your fatal flaw. Now it seems to be the mark of your collective genius. The media would pounce on a leader, or leaders, and reduce your entire movement to a life story, a personality. Now they have nothing to grasp but your ideas, and your outrage. Then, too, leaders can...
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"Hey that’s me! no joke. i think i’m being...
An interesting story about photo-use rights, Flickr and Creative Commons that you can follow as it unfolds on the Flickr comments, here. The first comment in the thread, ‘Hey that’s me! no joke. i think i’m being insulted,’ is the young girl whose image was lifted from Flickr and used by Virgin Mobile Australia in an ad campaign called ‘Dump Your Pen Friend’.
The story was...
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The Associates
— White car in Germany
Since you are a person I trust, I wanted to invite...
I just find that weird, as an automatically generated invitation. Or are they all typing that spontaneously?
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“‘Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?’ Having...”
– Steve Jobs, banging heads together over Apple’s mysterious MobileMe app.
Jobs then ‘replaced the head of the group, on the spot’.
What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs, on Gawker.
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'Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Subway... →
Gothamist: interesting interview with a New York subway train driver.
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Royksopp
— What else is there?
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'Clubs with live music have woken up Rua Augusta,... →
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Just Jack
— Disco friends
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