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If Randy Newman did a themesong for "We Need to Talk About Kevin" Burning Man meets Dr Seuss: "Oh the Places You'll Go at Burning Man!" Marching band plays Rage Against the Machine Lamar Smith: if you oppose SOPA, you don't matter Meet the new boss, same as the old boss 3D printing in ice Parking makes people insane Ron Paul: the Venn diagram If Randy Newman did a themesong for "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 08, 2012 12:38 pm Zack sez, "Remember how a hyper-earnest Randy Newman song used to play the opening/ending of just about every Hollywood flick? Well, here's one creative person's take on the song Newman would do for the acclaimed Tilda Swinton school shooter drama WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN. The parody is absolutely dead on (spoiling the book ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 08:03 pm Papabear2010 sez, "Based on Dr. Seuss's final book before his death, this is a story about life's ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011. Combining the stunning visuals of Burning Man and its population with the haunting, silly, thought provoking words of Dr. Seuss." Dawww, this is just lovely. Oh, the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 05:40 pm George Mason University's Green Machine marching band plays Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" and they crush it. George Mason University Green Machine plays Rage (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 05:00 pm Rep Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and the principal instigator of the Internet-killing, freedom-hating, pro-censorship Stop Online Piracy Act, has dismissed the bill's enormous, widespread opposition. Smith claims that the million emails sent to Congress in one day, the phone calls received on the Hill at the rate of one per ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 04:00 pm What in the fuck has Obama done so far? "Reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage." "Dramatically increased government secrecy, blocking more FOIA requests in 2009 than Bush did in 2008." "Launched FBI raids on antiwar activists in Chicago and Minneapolis." And much, much more. (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 03:00 pm Katharine Gammon writes in Wired about the work of McGill University researcher Pieter Sijpkes and colleagues, who have produced an experimental 3D printer that produces ice-sculptures. The researchers give current applications as a cheap alternative to printing in plastic goop (thanks to patents that will soon expire, the plastic powder used in high-end 3D printers ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 02:22 pm Writing in the LA Magazine, Dave Gardetta visits the thinking of the world's top parking theorists, who believe that parking causes people to go insane: "I truly believe that when men and women think about parking, their mental capacity reverts to the reptilian cortex of the brain. How to get food, ritual display, territorial dominance—all ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 07, 2012 01:13 pm Mother Jones attempts a taxonomy of libertarian thought in order to figure out where Ron Paul fits. My feeling is that Ron Paul can only be understood by abandoning the traditional one-dimensions left-right political axis, or, rather, augmenting it with more axes: libertarian-authoritarian, centralist-decentralist, material-spiritual, and probably a few I've forgotten. Congressman Ron Paul's third-place ...
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