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Exactitudes - (USA)
http://www.exactitudes.com/
The Code of the Geeks v3.12 - (USA)
http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
DAVID BROOKS’ SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY - (USA)
He's everywhere, he's everywhere...5:30 a.m. Wake up alarm music: “Your Body is a Wonderland.”5:31 a.m. Sitting in skivvies, appear via phone on NPR as witty, disarming conservative pundit.6 a.m. Arrange comb-over.7 a.m. Breakfast with Paul Krugman, listening to insufferable crap about Nobel Prize.8 a.m. Cardio workout, with Krugman photo taped to punching bag.9 a.m. Sitting in skivvies, appear via phone on CNN as witty, disarming conservative pundit.10 a.m. Ponder differences between “Starbucks
http://johnsterling.blogspot.com/2008/10/david-brooks-schedule-for-friday.html
Jahsonic, a vocabulary of culture - (USA)
A vocabulary of culture
http://www.jahsonic.com/
rheingold's brainstorms: rheingoldian writing - (USA)
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/techpolitix/civil.html
The “Brüno” Imbrüglio - (USA)
Brüno , Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, has been criticized by gay rights groups like GLAAD for reinforcing stereotypes about gay people and “decreas[ing] the public’s comfort with [them].” The movie’s eponymous main character is a flamboyant, fame-mongering Austrian who throughout the film is shown engaging in a hot tub romp beside his adopted black baby, “O.J.”; tethered to his partner by S&M gear to which he has lost the key; and using a bicycle affixed with a long rod to its whe
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/07/16/13185
Coming out BDSM: upsides and downsides - (USA)
A lot of us kinksters use vocabulary similar to the kind of thing people are accustomed to hearing from LGBTQ folks. “Coming out” is a great example of this: a lot of BDSM people struggle with the question of whether to come out to our employers, our friends, our parents … all the people we love. And BDSM is stigmatized and frowned upon enough that most kinksters never come out. Some professional fields are more BDSM-friendly: for instance, kinksters who work in computer science frequently don
http://sexgenderbody.com/content/coming-out-bdsm-upsides-and-downsides
Porn: Just Another Business? - (USA)
On society’s list of most shameful professions, the pornographer would be near the top. What must pornographers think of themselves? They would argue that their industry has joined the mainstream, yet for porn performers, it’s a sordid career fraught with perils of drugs, disease, and in the darker corners of porn, exploitation and abuse. Take the case of a true pervert, Paul Little, who calls himself “Max Hardcore.” The British author Martin Amis submerged himself in the sleaziest subcu
http://catholicexchange.com/2009/07/18/120466/
A case for sex-positive education, or just "othering" Japan? - (USA)
(Trigger warning: The referenced article may be triggering in its description of sexual acts with objects-perceived-as-girls.) I'll admit, I struggled to find a way to approach this story , about an outgrowth of the otaku * subcultures in Japan. Fortunately, I'm not alone in this contributor thing, and got some significant help from Liss on this one, so thanks Liss! Errors and omissions may be safely attributed to me, though. (A brief precis of the article, so people don't have to risk bei
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/07/case-for-sex-positive-education-or-just.html
Psychology of swearing - Part 2 - (USA)
With the comments of fellow bloggers it seems we are developing a sound theory of the psychology of swearing. We hear comments like swearing may keep the client on the left foot or that swearing can be good shock value. I agree with these comments and so why would this be so? Swearing it seems begins as a function of the Parent ego state. In our Parent we have all the rules and mores of society. That includes a statement of what is good behaviour, feelings and indeed speech. It would then seem
http://graffiti99.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/11/12/psychology-of-swearing-part-2.html
Tocqueville on the Shores of Titicaca - (USA)
Amid Alexis de Tocqueville’s writings on revolution in France, there is a passage that rings true for those of us who have spent time in the countryside. He observed that however lively affairs of state might seem, it is often hard to get a peasant to take much interest in them. The remote happenings in a national capital rarely seem to have much practical import for one tilling the soil. But propose to run a road past a peasant’s property, Tocqueville added, and he will promptly take a deep
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=5208
Word Spy - (USA)
Each weekday, a new and insanely interesting word or phrase. We specialize in new and recently coined words.
http://www.wordspy.com/
RIP Steven Wells: The Best That Ever Did It. - (USA)
The greatest music writer that ever did it is dead . Load of fucking DICK. Reports the meeja: “Steven Wells died on Tuesday after finally losing his fight against cancer.” Of course, Swells wouldn’t have said that. Writing about his experience with the disease in The Philadelphia Weekly a few years back , he put it like this: “No one ever ‘battles bravely against cancer’. This is utter bullshit. You do your chemo, take your drugs and hang on for dear life.” I fucking love tha
http://www.akirathedon.com/2009/06/rip-steven-wells-the-best-that-ever-did-it/
Tasty Research - (USA)
http://tastyresearch.wordpress.com/
Michael Jackson and Sarah Palin - (USA)
As I watched parts of Michael Jackson's funeral at the airport, I recalled two other, equally fauxmentous funerals: JFK Jr.'s and Princess Diana's. Specifically, I compared the disproportionality of the public mourning to each's life accomplishments. JFK Jr. had done nothing. Princess Diana cared for kids, but as much as Mother Teresa, who died the same year? Michael Jackson cared for kids, too, and I mean that both sarcastically and seriously. Some people have pointed out that soldiers
http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/asymmetric/2009/07/09/michael-jackson-an-dsarah-palin
The Coming Kulturkampf - (USA)
From First Things By Richard John Neuhaus Many who do not embrace the Christian faith nonetheless have a high appreciation of the importance of Christianity to the cultural and social order. Theirs is an instrumental view of religion. Edward Gibbon caught the idea nicely, and in his usual caustic manner, when describing the religious cults of the Roman Empire. He says the common people viewed them as true, the philosophers viewed them as false, and the rulers viewed them as useful. Today’s poli
http://sunlituplands.blogspot.com/2008/11/coming-kulturkampf.html
California Dreamers - (USA)
Posted by Review-a-Day, July 29th, 2009 No CommentsFiled under:Review-a-Day. Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (Americans and the California Dream) by Kevin Starr Reviewed by Benjamin SchwarzThe Atlantic It was a magnificent run. From the end of the Second World War to the mid-1960s, California consolidated its position as an economic and technological colossus and emerged as the country's dominant political, social, and cultural trendsetter. Thanks to wartime and
http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=7439
Do The Warhol—Part 1: The Business of Vision - (USA)
Your correspondent, as absorbed by the Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA. A dance craze— like “ freaking ”— it is not, but rather, a point of view. Back in January of this year, Andrew Breitbart announced “ Big Hollywood’s modest objective: to change the entertainment industry ”. The announcement is as important as it is radical, assessing the power of Pop Culture in shaping global attitudes and standing athwart contemporary assaults on Western values, yelling, as did Wi
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/07/23/do-the-warhol%E2%80%94-part-1-the-business-of-vision/
The “Transformers is utter shite and I REFUSE to spend $10 to acquire an elevated blood pressure” ed - (USA)
So previously, based on nothing but a nice trailer with cool music, I made a commitment to see Transformers. I am now being warned that that commitment might be a bad idea, due to my recently reached decision to sharply decrease toleration of gender and race and sexual orientation shenanigans in my entertainment. I find that many reviews of Transformers:Revenge of the Fallen are interesting in their own right, with the added bonus of NOT costing me $10 a pop. So…presented for your intellectua
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2009/07/04/the-%E2%80%9Ctransformers-is-utter-shite-and-i-refuse-to-spend-10-to-acquire-an-elevated-blood-pressure%E2%80%9D-edition/
Updates - (USA)
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http://photojournalismlinks.com/2009/08/09/updates/
And Here Is Your 2009 BME Scholarship Winner - (USA)
Initially founded by Darrin Fowler and now run under the supervision of Mark Anstrom , the 2009 BME Scholarship winner has been decided. Here’s Mark’s write-up, followed by the winning essay. Huge thanks to all involved, and congratulations to the winner on an excellent essay! Each year, the IAM community comes together to award $1,000 USD college scholarship to a deserving member of our community. Available to all IAM members worldwide, this year marks the fourth year we’ve been able t
http://news.bmezine.com/2009/07/21/and-here-is-your-2009-bme-scholarship-award-winner/
"The celebrity economy. The last of this century’s great trends was noted by acute observers in 1996 - (USA)
“ The celebrity economy. The last of this century’s great trends was noted by acute observers in 1996, yet somehow most people failed to appreciate it. Although business gurus were proclaiming the predominance of creativity and innovation over mere routine production, in fact the growing ease with which information could be transmitted and reproduced was making it ever harder for creators to profit from their creations. Today, if you develop a marvelous piece of software, by tomorrow everyone wi
http://trystero.tumblr.com/post/56781573
666 - (USA)
The association of the number 666 with the Antichrist is derived from Revelation 13:18 in which John the Revelator is told in his apocalyptic vision that the number of the Beast is 666 and that the number stands for a person. In John’s world of the first century, the Beast that ruled the Earth would have been the emperor, the caesar, of the Roman Empire, Nero (37C.E.–68 C.E.). Using the Hebrew alphabet, the numerical value of “Caesar Nero,” the merciless persecutor of the early Christians, is 6
http://unmyst3.blogspot.com/2008/10/666.html
Jim Selman: California Rising - (USA)
I spent the weekend in California, hanging out with my children and visiting old friends. I was in both Los Angeles and San Francisco and picked up on the current mood from both ends of the State--at least based on my small sample of conversations. The consensus is that California is a great place to live, but a fiscal and political mess. The deficit is staggering (over 25 billion and rising). The governor has been terminated politically speaking and can't get the politicians or the public to
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-selman/california-rising_b_237628.html
Bro, Did You Kill College Life? - (USA)
Part 1: The Terms Of Engagement By: Brandon J. Mendelson There are many questions about whether or not pop culture killed “college life”. The following are my favorites: Are programs like Undergrads accurate portrayals of students? Is Facebook more popular than campus activities? What happened to the sense of community on campus? Why are students in pop culture portrayed as searching for their identity? Does almost every college production feature an upper-middle class honkey with
http://blogs.timesunion.com/classconflict/?p=1622
Street Scoop: Osaka - (USA)
Tucked away behind the designer house-lined streets of Shinsaibashi lies the fashion district known as Amerikamura , or Amemura for short, in the southern district of Osaka, Japan . On weekends, Amemura is the hangout spot of choice for young fashionistas. As the name suggests, American influences are apparent everywhere: in the products, architecture, cafés, novelty shops, and music. Particularly fascinating about this area is how ideas of America are consumed and reconfigured as seen by th
http://www.thesupermelon.com/juicy/street-scoop-osaka/
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