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putyourbeardinmymouth: dont-thinktwiceitsalright SENDS THIS...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:33:48 -0500

dont-thinktwiceitsalright SENDS THIS AND SAYS:

“I know this isn’t a beard but I know you love Jack Daniels (: So I thought you’d like this (:”

I’M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SAY THIS IS TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE

ysvoice: | ♕ | Craco - Abondoned village in Matera, Italy |...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:32:01 -0500

ysvoice:

| ♕ | Craco - Abondoned village in Matera, Italy | by © Adi Vastano

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe [Manuscript, 2 p., ca. May...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:31:17 -0500

“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe [Manuscript, 2 p., ca. May 1849]. Clearly sensing that “Annabel Lee” would be his last poem, Poe took the unusual step, after finishing it in May 1849, of writing out several copies, of which this signed copy is one, and circulating them among his friends to ensure that the poem would not go unnoticed. Poe read the poem in lectures in Richmond and sold it, along with “The Bells,” to Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art for publication. However, it was first printed in the New-York Daily Tribune on October 9, 1849, only two days after the poet’s death, rushed into print by Rufus Griswold, who had received a copy for later inclusion in the tenth edition of The Poets and Poetry of America. Although at least four of Poe’s women friends claimed to have inspired “Annabel Lee,” the poet’s real motivation may be a reflection of his continued mourning for his wife, Virginia, who died two years earlier. (via Columbia.edu)

"Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:30:32 -0500

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Today most data is born digitally. It’s not about the transition from analog to digital anymore. We don’t talk about how to rip anything without losing quality since we make perfect 1 to 1 digital copies of things. Music, movies, books, all come from the digital sphere. But we’re physical people and we need objects to touch sometimes as well!

We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.

The benefit to society is huge. No more shipping huge amount of products around the world. No more shipping the broken products back. No more child labour. We’ll be able to print food for hungry people. We’ll be able to share not only a recipe, but the full meal. We’ll be able to actually copy that floppy, if we needed one.

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- The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category, via Dan W (via new-aesthetic)

latimes: Discouraged, but not yet demonstrating: Students at...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:28:02 -0500

latimes:

Discouraged, but not yet demonstrating: Students at Cal State Dominguez Hills bemoan their short-term job prospects. But nationwide protests that include criticism of education cuts have failed to drive many of them to action.

Photo: Job seekers speak with corporate and government recruiters at a recent job fair at Cal State Dominguez Hills. They’re entering a job market where many employers are offering little more than low-paid internships. Credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times

harpersbazaar: Marc Jacobs in Stephen Sprouse for Louis...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:27:18 -0500

harpersbazaar:

Marc Jacobs in Stephen Sprouse for Louis Vuitton

Photo credit: Splashnews

capitalnewyork: housingworksbookstore: TONIGHT. FREE. 7PM....

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:26:34 -0500

capitalnewyork:

housingworksbookstore:

TONIGHT. FREE. 7PM. Join Dr. Benjamin Chavis, co-founder of Occupy the Dream; Allison Kilkenny, contributor for The Nation, In These Times and co-host of Citizen Radio; Malik Rhasaan, co-founder of Occupy the Hood; Rachel Schragis, designer of the Flow Chart of the Declaration of the Occupation of NYC, Steven Syrek of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library and Ryan Devereaux reporter for The Guardian by way of Democracy Now! along with Julie Gueraseva and Andy Stepanian of The Sparrow Project as they discuss where Occupy has taken us, where it can bring us, and what to expect in 2012.

The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City 2nd ed. booklet is a collection of the official statements drafted by the New York City General Assembly, a Letter from the Occupiers at Tahrir Square to the Occupiers of Wall Street, and an expanded resource list for occupiers to organize and network with. Taking inspiration from the pamphlet that sparked the Mai 1968 uprisings in Paris, France, the crowd-funded, design-savvy Declaration has already received acclaim from Vanity Fair, Current Television, and other forward-thinking media outlets.

Twenty thousand copies of The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City will be made available for free during the event. Attendees are encouraged to each take a bundle and help distribute them around the city.

Recommended. How do you think the Occupy movement should evolve in 2012?

Supreme Court GPS case ruling: A warning shot for drones?

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:25:49 -0500

Supreme Court GPS case ruling: A warning shot for drones?:

dronejournalism:

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police cannot attach a GPS tracker to someone’s car without first getting clearance from a court. The link goes to a Wall Street Journal story about the opinion. In summary, the majority of the court ruled that the GPS devices were not a trivial matter, and that they warranted judicial review before their use. Using the small, inexpensive devices to track people amounted to a violation of the person’s Fourth Amendment Rights against unlawful searches and seizures. In separate consenting opinions, Justices Sotomayor and Alito wrote that the GPS trackers went beyond an unlawful search. Justice Alito wrote that the devices were also a invasion of an individuals “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

The passage that particularly caught my eye was Justice Sotomayor writing: “Awareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms. And the Government’s unrestrained power to assemble data that reveal private aspects of identity is susceptible to abuse. The net result is that GPS monitoring—by making available at a relatively low cost such a substantial quantum of intimate information about any person whom the Government, in its unfettered discretion, chooses to track—may “alter the relationship between citizen and government in a way that is inimical to democratic society.”

Replace GPS with Drone and read that again.

Cheeseburger That Stayed Exactly the Same After a Whole Year Raises Alarm

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:23:05 -0500

Cheeseburger That Stayed Exactly the Same After a Whole Year Raises Alarm

Feminist Ryan Gosling: Footnotes.

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:22:21 -0500

Feminist Ryan Gosling: Footnotes. :

feministryangosling:

Thank you, as always, for your very kind emails, which I promise to catch up on now that my semester is over.

Here’s some fun stuff:

• Some of the students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (full disclosure: where I currently attend and teach) made a feminist-focused blog in the style of…