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Jul 5 2009

Quote of the day: “it is given that Vassar allows token elitist blue state heterosexual snobs to enter their den of Sotomeyer culture especially if they pay thousands of dollars of tuition, but that is not the agreement that the Poughkeepsie community has with the college”

via: protest against Vassar College - NoahDavidSimon - FriendFeed

Jun 30 2009

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from aotlaw.org

my favorite new site

“Twitter was intended to be a way for vacant, self-absorbed egotists to share their most banal and idiotic thoughts with anyone pathetic enough to read them,” said a visibly confused Dorsey, claiming that Twitter is at its most powerful when it makes an already attention-starved populace even more needy for constant affirmation.”

Chief Twit on Iran- “I Never Intended Twitter To Be Useful”

Jun 29 2009

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“But let’s get real. For every cynical slacker sitting around “ironically” watching The Real Housewives of Orange County and turning his beard orange with Sparks spittle, there’s a legitimate artist who’s working his/her ass off, dare I say it, doing something cool. There’s no contrived lack of aesthetic to the films of Michel Gondry. He’s an artist, and yes, he’s cool. There’s no artificial, ironic detachment to the music that TV on the Radio produce. They’re artists too, and yes, they’re cool. And perhaps it should go without saying, but hipster profiling is about as effective as racial profiling. Owning a pair of skinny jeans and living in Bushwick doesn’t make someone cool. But it doesn’t make them a hipster douchebag either.”

Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher by Robert Lanham - The Morning News

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http://www.nickburcher.com/2009/06/michael-jackson-nearly-breaks-internet.html

Jun 27 2009

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China / censorship

Banned words in China:

“sex, Tibet, Falun Gong (a forbidden religious movement), Tiananmen, play-boy, fuck, multiple parties, Taiwan independence, police, whore, corruption, torture, public funds, anus, Jesus Christ, riot, insurrection, air disaster, 89, tyranny, North Korea, scrotum, dictatorship, pigeon, timeshare, penitentiary, Voice of America, bra, Geneva finance, shit.”

via (http://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/The_coming_age_of_internet_censorship)

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Banned words in China

China News: Translation of the Filtered Key Words in Chinese Cyberspace | China Digital Times (CDT)

Rough analysis of this list: Falungong related ~ 20%; Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan ~ 15%; names of Chinese leaders and their relatives ~ 15%; democracy, corruption, politics ~ 15%; social unrest, police ~ 10%; names of dissident writers, political exiles ~ 10%; porn related ~ 15% .

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Deepak Chopra: “Michael Jackson’s mixture of mystery, isolation, indulgence, overwhelming global fame, and personal loneliness was intimately known to me. For twenty years I observed every aspect, and as easy as it was to love Michael — and to want to protect him — his sudden death yesterday seemed almost fated. What began as idiosyncrasy, shyness, and vulnerability was ravaged by obsessions over health, paranoia over security, and an isolation that grew more and more unhealthy. He was surrounded by enablers, including a shameful plethora of M.D.s in Los Angeles and elsewhere who supplied him with prescription drugs…” click image for more.