Mike Soron

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July 5, 2009 at 2:23am
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May I recommend a movie?: MOON →

June 29, 2009 at 11:03am
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Naomi Klein calls for Israeli Boycott →

June 28, 2009 at 1:20pm
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Putting Government Data Online and Tim Berners-Lee →

June 25, 2009 at 9:44am
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May I recommend a movie?: Away We Go →

June 24, 2009 at 11:29pm
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Helen Thomas v. Obama

CNN: Over the weekend, we saw a shocking video of this woman, Neda, who had been shot in the chest and bled to death... What's your reaction?
THE PRESIDENT: It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking. And I think that anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust about that... I have concern about how peaceful demonstrators and people who want their votes counted may be stifled from expressing those concerns. I think, as I said before, there are certain international norms of freedom of speech, freedom of expression --
MOTHERFUCKIN' HELEN THOMAS: Then why won't you allow the photos --
THE PRESIDENT: Hold on a second, Helen. That's a different question. (Laughter.) [Filler] ... All right. Thank you, guys.

June 23, 2009 at 11:05pm
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…what follows is a quote from a New York Times article: the delay in Twitter’s maintenance reveals “the recognition by the United States government that an Internet blogging service that did not exist four years ago has the potential to change history in an ancient Islamic country”. If only life was that simple, my dear friends at the New York Times: blogging services do not change history, not even if the State Department asks them; people do.

— A different take on the State Department’s Twitter request by Evgeny Morozov (via tylersoron)

June 22, 2009 at 1:43am
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Goldman Sachs is set to make a record bonus payout this year. [Guardian]

David Williams, an investment banking analyst at Fox Pitt Kelton, said: “This year is shaping up to be the best year ever for investment banks, or at least those that have emerged relatively unscathed from the credit crisis.

“These banks are intermediaries in the bond markets where governments and companies are raising billions of pounds of new money. There is also a lack of competition that means they can charge huge sums for doing business.”

Last week, the firm predicted that President Barack Obama’s government could issue $3.25tn of debt before September, almost four times last year’s sum. Goldman, a prime broker of US government bonds, is expected to make hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from selling and dealing in the bonds.

June 20, 2009 at 9:11am
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Have any plans for October 24th? [Global Climate Action] →

June 19, 2009 at 9:44pm
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On Real Freedom: Remembering David Foster Wallace →

2:28am
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Seeing some of these people online turning their profile pictures green “for Iran” makes me want to create a Facebook and Twitter application that turns profile pictures blood red, in solidarity with all of the Afghans and Iraqis and Pakistanis being killed by US wars today; wars that people in the US failed to stop and whose representatives continue to fund to the tune of $100s of billions.

— Jeremy Scahill

June 15, 2009 at 5:55pm
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reblogged from iheartmyart
booktumbling: libraryland: iheartmyart:




Hunter S. Thompson, Self Portrait (Puerto Rico), c 1960s

booktumbling: libraryland: iheartmyart:

Hunter S. Thompson, Self Portrait (Puerto Rico), c 1960s

1:21pm
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12:20pm
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We Have Band’s impressive stop motion vid →

12:12pm
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Polaris Prize long list announced →

suicidesnail:

Arkells - Jackson Square
Jill Barber - Chances
Beast - Beast
Bell Orchestre - As Seen Through Windows
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth
Coeur De Pirate - Coeur De Pirate
Leonard Cohen - Live In London
D-Sisive - Let The Children Die
Elephant Stone - The Seven Seas
Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
Great Lake Swimmers - Lost Channels
Handsome Furs - Face Control
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Hey Rosetta! - Into Your Lungs
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
K’NAAN - Troubadour
K-OS - YES!
La patère rose - La patère rose
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Lhasa - Lhasa
Malajube - Labyrinthes
Metric - Fantasies
One Hundred Dollars - Forest Of Tears
Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love
Joel Plaskett - Three
Snailhouse - Lies On The Prize
Charles Spearin - The Happiness Project
Rae Spoon - superioryouareinferior
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
Think About Life - Family
Timber Timbre - Timber Timbre
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Martha Wainwright - I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Women - Women
Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada C/W Houndstooth Europa

12:02pm
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Twenty years ago CNN’s coverage of Tienanmen Square made its reputation. If in twenty more years it has become consensus that real-time, online, crowdsourced media is the best place to keep up with current events, this incident could be an important part of that history unfolding.

— Marshall Kirkpatrick on #cnnfail