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January 25 2012
January 24 2012
Batman
January 23 2012
Responses to the question: What are your biggest obstacles to teaching well?
January 22 2012
nerd night (Futurama did it first)
December 19 2011
The Pirate Bay Gives No Fucks About US Law (via The Pirate Bay Gives No Fucks About US Law - Imgur)
From my favorite movie of the year…..so far. If Attack The Block was 8-bit.
December 14 2011
Protéigon (perhaps polygon + protean?), a short film by Steven Briand.
via This Is Colossal.
December 10 2011
“ It’s part of the American way to get a lot of self-worth from your job. Meanwhile, one of the reasons there aren’t enough of those jobs out there is that America no longer makes enough stuff. Young people feel that void, intrinsically. Making stuff is what got us smiles from our parents and top billing in refrigerator art galleries. And since we are, as a generation, more addicted to positive reinforcement than any before us, and because we have learned firsthand the futility of finding that affirmation through our employers, we have returned to our stuff-making ways, via pursuits easily mocked: the modern-day pickling, the obsessive Etsying, the flower-arranging classes, the knitting resurgence, the Kickstarter funds for art projects of no potential commercial value. The millions upon millions who upload footage of themselves singing or dancing or talking about the news to YouTube. Of course, funny videos and adorable hand-sewn ikat pillows aren’t the only kind of stuff that people are making as a way of coping with harsh economic realities—meth, for instance, comes to mind. But putting aside those darker enterprises, this is a golden age for creativity and knowledge for their own sakes. Our pastimes have become our expressions of mastery, a substitute for the all-consuming career. ”—
Why the Current Crop of Twentysomethings Are Going to Be Okay — New York Magazine (via glynnis)
As a twentysomething, I sure hope she’s right.
December 09 2011
OMG! Adorbz of the Day: Tottenham-based hip hop artist Alim Kamara freestyles with 2-year-old Khaliyl — one of the few MCs who can honestly say they were rapping before they could talk.
[drinkyourjuice / ratsoff.]
Can we make gibberish rap a new genre?
I could watch this all day. If this video were four hours long I would have watched all of it.
Agreed.
Dang! That kid killed it! His flow was ice cold! #WatchTheThrone
Forever.
The best.
I’ve posted this before, but its just too funny not to share again.
December 08 2011
“Who are these people who got a problem with LA? Maybe they mad cuz they don’t live here.” - Ice Cube
Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames for Pacific Standard Time the birth of the LA art scene.
If Cube taught a class at UCLA/USC about the history of LA through his eyes, I’d be the first one to sign up for that class. This video is a good compromise.
I was rollin’ down the 10 on my way to work, locked up in morning traffic, when KDAY started spinnin’ classic Ice Cube. It was like every car on the road lit up a spliff, took a deep breath, and exhaled a great, big sigh of relief, just because Ice Cube reminded us that “Today was a good day.”
December 07 2011
December 06 2011
The 2012 federal discretionary budget: Military gets the lion’s share of spending, while social priorities fall by the wayside.
(Also, whoever does Occupy graphics is sheer awesomeness.)
December 05 2011
Top 10 Most Censored Stories of 2011
#10 Statistical Games with the Unemployment Rate. At Information Clearing House, Greg Hunter showed that instead of 9%, the real unemployment rate is over 22%.
#9 Chemtrails. Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails, July 10, 2010.
#8 The Truth on Nuclear Power. The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report describing 14 near-miss nuclear accidents in 2010 in the US. (One is Fort Calhoun, which I covered here and here.) Other nuclear pieces mentioned in this category include Jeff Goodell’s “America’s Nuclear Nightmare” at Rolling Stone.
#7 U.S. Army and psychology’s largest experiment – ever. Horrified by war? Be positive! A series of APA articles describing and promoting a program of “psychological resilience” is confronted by Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk and Stephen Soldz at Truthout.
#6 Google Spies for CIA, US Military. In January 2010, Eric Sommer wrote “Google’s Deep CIA Connections” for Pravda.ru.
#5 Prison Companies Fund Anti-Immigrant Legislation. Exposed in depth by Peter Cervantes-Gautschi at AlterNet, Wall Street is profiting from immigrant lock-ups.
#4 Wall Street Engineers Food Crisis. On March 24, 2011, David Moberg wrote “Diet Hard: With a Vengeance” for In These Times showing that speculating on food commodities, along with income inequality, cause hunger – not lack of production.
#3 Obama’s Extrajudicial Hit List. State sanctioned assassinations outside the scope of law is somehow okay by this dictator. This is an under-reported story later covered by Glenn Greenwald atSalon and William Fisher at IPS. Originally titled “Death by Drone: ‘CIA’s hitlist is murder’,” IPS later changed it to “Death by Remote: But Is It Legal?”
#2 Army of Fake Personas to Promote Propaganda. Two sites broke the story on Feb. 22, 2011: Darlene Storm at Computer World and Stephen Webster at Raw Story. In March, Guardian writers Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain covered it.
#1 US Soldier Suicides Exceed Combat Deaths in 2010. Cord Jefferson broke the story on Jan. 27, 2011 at Iceland’s Good Magazine.
December 04 2011
The evolution of riot gear. (NYT)
December 03 2011
Taking out this time, to give you a piece of my mind, “can’t knock the hustle”… been a while since i’ve done a piece. Hope you guys like it :)
November 23 2011
Of course there’s a Tumblr for this meme. But more importantly, there’s a list of bands and musicians signing support + playing for #OWS.
PS - fuck that guy/what he represents. I don’t ever blog politics on here, so forgive me this once, but if the State were as interested in enforcing the laws of banking as much as they were about the laws of public parks…
Easter Egg of the Day: Want to know why Community is getting canceled? Because it’s simply too amazing for this world.
You already know how chock-full of Easter Eggs it is, right? Well, someone found the best one yet.
It seems that the writers have been sneaking the word “Betelgeuse” into the script of a single episode each season.
Check out what happened when the word was uttered a third time during the show’s Halloween episode, “Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps.” (Hint: Look behind Annie.)
Pure brilliance.
[reddit.]
Clever girl…
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