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May 14, 2012
May 8, 2012
Age of Ignorance by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
It took years of indifference and stupidity to make us as ignorant as we are today.
Vale muito para o Brasil também. Até mais no caso.
March 22, 2012
February 21, 2012
"What was it that held the Third Reich together, and why did ordinary Germans support Adolf Hitler? Aly’s answer is surprising: the ordinary Germans supported Hitler not because they were anti-Semites and or driven by Nazi ideology, they were quite simply bribed and bought – Nazi Germany was a “dictatorship of favours” for everyone. The Third Reich, Aly claims, in fact operated a programme of “progressive taxation” that redistributed wealth; this was funded by Jewish assets and properties systematically plundered from Germany and its occupied territories."
February 21, 2012
"Truth usually hurts - Aly’s 2008 book Unser Kampf: 1968 – ein irritierter Blick zurück (a deliberately provocative title that plays on Mein Kampf), argues that 1968 was merely a delayed offshoot of European totalitarianism, and that the ’68 generation was no different from the ’33 generation in their propensity to violence and their anti-democratic, anti-Enlightenment, anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist and anti-American attitudes."
January 24, 2012
January 10, 2012
Microsoft's amazing 3D technology without glasses.
Future is definitely on the way to 3D displays and surfaces.
January 4, 2012
"When people get nothing from a society, they eventually just riot. And to my mind, that’s kind of what’s going on on the Internet. Basically, people can expect free stuff from the Internet but they don’t expect wealth from the Internet, which to me makes it a failed technology at this point, although I hope it’s revivable. I’m sure it is."
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The Local-global Flip, Or, “the Lanier Effect” | Conversation | Edge
More amazing and inspiring ideas from this text.
January 4, 2012
"In San Francisco you can be attacked by mobs of bicycling advocates who’ve occasionally been quite ruthless because they believe in bicycles, and they think that they’re the most enlightened, free people in the world, and yet if somebody doesn’t agree with them, then they have trouble."
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The Local-global Flip, Or, “the Lanier Effect” | Conversation | Edge
Another great quote from this article.
December 19, 2011
December 18, 2011
"Facebook is reported to have made $1.6 billion during the first half of 2011 (about double what it made in the first half of 2010), but Apple makes that much in nine days."
November 16, 2011
October 15, 2011
Hüsker Dü live ‘85 (full version) (by SevenSevenSevenaka and @slicingeyeballs)
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September 28, 2011
Gentlemen, there are four ways to do something: The Right Way, The Wrong Way, The Navy Way, and My Way. Henceforth we will do things my way. If we can do that, we'll get along.
I wrote a bit in my blog about the end of Jim’s Legion. Basically, it didn’t go well, based on both the fact that Geoff Johns had started writing about the “real” Legion again in Lightning Saga, turning the actual Legion title into a lame duck session. There were also numerous editorial changes of mind, including a desire to create a new Superboy, or at least a new Kryptonian character for Legion, which was quickly pulled off the table shortly afterwards. Jim goes on about this on his blog as well.
He also had numerous issues with the art and production on the book, and went into them in exacting detail aswell on his blog recently. Francis Manapul, the artist on the book, has responded on his Tumblr blog:
I just read this article http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/09/25/jim-shooter-on-amending-legion-of-superheroes/ on Jim’s blog about our run on Legion of Super-Heroes. I wasn’t going to read it, but I did, and I can’t turn back time.
He’s an interesting guy from what I’ve read, and from what…
I thought Francis’ art was really good on the book, and so did Jim - in his backhanded way, he said (i paraphrase here) he needed more honing, but would be really good really soon. And he was right. The last person Jim said that about was David Lapham, back when he was at Valiant. So he’s got a good eye for talent.
Jim just likes things done his way. He was both an editor and an editor in chief, and has a really good idea how to make a book work well. Problem is, if his collaborators have DIFFERENT really good ideas on the same, there will be issues. I really wish that Editorial had listened to him more than they (apparently) did, but I get the impression that by the time Jim started the book, he was Plan B.
I think if he’d been given a chance to really fly on the book, it could have succeeded. He took what mark Waid gave him (which was pretty damn good, tho I fear I’m in the minority on that) and built on it, didn’t get rid of anything he didn’t agree with. But by this point, the book had already been written off by even the most fervent Legion fen.
As anyone will tell you, there’s nothing more annoying than a know-it-all who’s right a lot. And I think Jim could very definitely have been right.
September 23, 2011
Eddie Vedder tribute to REM: playing “It Happened Today” live in Calgary last Wednesday. He also originally sings backing vocals on the song.
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This is perfect. Way to go, @philnoto/philnoto!:
“MJ, I think I just got asked out by Spiderman!”
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The Unfuture of Northlanders
Bleeding Cool correctly reports that my Vertigo series NORTHLANDERS has been cancelled by the powers that be at DC...
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Con sketch of the Shade, by Gene Ha.
