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CNN.com openly regurgitates “talking points”

Check out the end of this CNN.com article (google cache for posterity). Despite being written by the network's "Special Investigations Unit," the article literally relays "talking points" from the Department of Labor word for word, as if they were just copy-and-pasted. (They probably were.) The fact that the article clearly identifies the talking points as [...]


New U2 Album $4 on Amazon

Yes, it was on BitTorrent 2 weeks ago, but if you didn't swipe it early or just like your music legal, go pick up U2's long-awaited new album for just $4 today. It rocks.


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1 March 2009 @ 8am

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Post(modern) faith

This semester I have the honor of taking a course with the incomparable Charlene Spretnak titled "The Eco-Social Vision." An interesting side-effect of our conversations (as a capstone to two years of complimentary multilogues at CIIS) is that, when I come across a discussion of postmodernism these days, I'm interested more in the modern than [...]


Typesetting with Amazon search results

The image above comes from amaztype, a very cool application of Amazon Web Services. You give it a subject or an author, and it makes the actual search term out of the search results. So I searched for "creativity," and the app literally spells out that word with the books it finds about creativity. The [...]


Today is the Best Day Ever

My friend Amy shared this hybrid prayer/affirmation/intention with me in Pacifica, and it spoke so deeply to me that I wanted to pass it along. Author unknown.


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